The Philadelphia Eagles will be playing their starters at least the entire first half against the Patriots. Depending on what you believe, New England may play their starters for an extended period of time…or not much at all.
According to Steve Balestrieri over at Patsfan.com, this could be the Patriots’ dress rehearsal as well since the Eagles will be the first of three games over a 10-day stretch for them.
However, according to Mike Rodak of ESPN Boston, several key players for the Patriots may not play much at all tonight because they want to preserve players’ health over that 10-day span with three games.
Rodak says that Tom Brady, Brandon Lloyd, Rob Gronkowski, Wes Welker and Aaron Hernandez may see little or no action tonight.
Patriots coach Bill Belichick is unlike Andy Reid in that he apparently doesn’t tell the media up there what his plans are for the starters, so we really don’t know what to expect.
All week around here, we’ve been thinking that this game will be a real...
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PLAYERS:
Tom Brady,
Brandon Lloyd,
Rob Gronkowski,
Wes Welker,
Aaron Hernandez,
Bill Belichick,
Andy Reid,
Trent Cole,
Cullen Jenkins,
Derek Landri,
Brandon Graham,
Phillip Hunt,
Vinny Curry,
Cedric Thornton
TEAMS: Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots
TEAMS: Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots
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