9.26.2008
Return Of The King
New Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore album out in October on CD / 2xLP. Rejoice mortals!
9.08.2008
All Of New England's Fears Unleashed...
A few years ago this would have made me happy. Now I'm kinda bummed. Dude definitely makes the game more exciting... Courtesy of the New York Times.
Brady Done for the Season
By LYNN ZINSER
Published: September 8, 2008
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s injured knee will require surgery and he will miss the rest of the season, the team announced on Monday.
New England Coach Bill Belichick said the team has not yet worked out any other quarterbacks to add to the roster, denying reports that Chris Simms was already here for a workout. Belichick would not say what the team would do, but clearly the team needs reinforcements. Behind the backup quarterback, Matt Cassel, is the rookie Kevin O’Connell.
“We feel badly for Tom,” Belichick said. “No one has worked harder or done more for this team than Tom. It’s a big setback for him.”
Brady’s injury came midway through the first quarter of the Patriots’ season opener against Kansas City, when Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard lunged at him after being blocked to the ground by Patriots running back Sammy Morris. Brady’s leg was extended forward as he let go of a pass when Pollard hit him.
Pollard said he heard Brady scream, so he knew immediately the injury was serious, but the Patriots waited until Monday’s official news to react. Team officials knew Sunday night that Brady was most likely lost for the season, but Brady underwent a magnetic resonance imaging test Monday morning to see how extensive the damage is.
By Monday morning, Cassel was on a radio show proclaiming himself ready to fill in for Brady as long as necessary and Simms, Tampa Bay’s former quarterback, was reportedly already on his way in for a workout, although Belichick denied that.
Tim Rattay has also been mentioned as a possibility, talked about often in New England during the preseason when Cassel’s preseason performances lagged and Brady’s health was questionable.
Complicating the Patriots’ situation, though, was their performance in Sunday’s game against the Chiefs, a rebuilding team with little hope of winning much this season. The Patriots won, 17-10, but the Patriots needed a defensive stand in the final minute to keep Kansas City from tying the game. The Patriots left the game feeling like they had escaped.
Since he took over as New England’s quarterback three games into the 2001 season — replacing an injured Drew Bledsoe — the now 31-year-old Brady has been the face of the Patriots. He has led them to three Super Bowl titles and has been one of the N.F.L.’s crossover celebrities, dating supermodels and landing in gossip columns everywhere.
That scrutiny had focused on Brady’s right ankle and foot since a photographer caught him in the off week before the Super Bowl outside his girlfriend Gisele Bundchen’s apartment in New York wearing a walking boot. The Giants hounded him with a relentless pass rush in the Super Bowl victory and Brady was still not healthy enough to play in any of the Patriots’ four preseason games. They went 0-4.
So all eyes were on him on Sunday. During the Patriots’ first drive, he was given only short-drop, quick passes. On the next drive he took full drops, and on the second one, Pollard ended his season.
Brady Done for the Season
By LYNN ZINSER
Published: September 8, 2008
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Patriots quarterback Tom Brady’s injured knee will require surgery and he will miss the rest of the season, the team announced on Monday.
New England Coach Bill Belichick said the team has not yet worked out any other quarterbacks to add to the roster, denying reports that Chris Simms was already here for a workout. Belichick would not say what the team would do, but clearly the team needs reinforcements. Behind the backup quarterback, Matt Cassel, is the rookie Kevin O’Connell.
“We feel badly for Tom,” Belichick said. “No one has worked harder or done more for this team than Tom. It’s a big setback for him.”
Brady’s injury came midway through the first quarter of the Patriots’ season opener against Kansas City, when Chiefs safety Bernard Pollard lunged at him after being blocked to the ground by Patriots running back Sammy Morris. Brady’s leg was extended forward as he let go of a pass when Pollard hit him.
Pollard said he heard Brady scream, so he knew immediately the injury was serious, but the Patriots waited until Monday’s official news to react. Team officials knew Sunday night that Brady was most likely lost for the season, but Brady underwent a magnetic resonance imaging test Monday morning to see how extensive the damage is.
By Monday morning, Cassel was on a radio show proclaiming himself ready to fill in for Brady as long as necessary and Simms, Tampa Bay’s former quarterback, was reportedly already on his way in for a workout, although Belichick denied that.
Tim Rattay has also been mentioned as a possibility, talked about often in New England during the preseason when Cassel’s preseason performances lagged and Brady’s health was questionable.
Complicating the Patriots’ situation, though, was their performance in Sunday’s game against the Chiefs, a rebuilding team with little hope of winning much this season. The Patriots won, 17-10, but the Patriots needed a defensive stand in the final minute to keep Kansas City from tying the game. The Patriots left the game feeling like they had escaped.
Since he took over as New England’s quarterback three games into the 2001 season — replacing an injured Drew Bledsoe — the now 31-year-old Brady has been the face of the Patriots. He has led them to three Super Bowl titles and has been one of the N.F.L.’s crossover celebrities, dating supermodels and landing in gossip columns everywhere.
That scrutiny had focused on Brady’s right ankle and foot since a photographer caught him in the off week before the Super Bowl outside his girlfriend Gisele Bundchen’s apartment in New York wearing a walking boot. The Giants hounded him with a relentless pass rush in the Super Bowl victory and Brady was still not healthy enough to play in any of the Patriots’ four preseason games. They went 0-4.
So all eyes were on him on Sunday. During the Patriots’ first drive, he was given only short-drop, quick passes. On the next drive he took full drops, and on the second one, Pollard ended his season.
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