Ron Brace News

Ok, so when we set the line a 5.5 for knee injuries in week 11, who had the under? Sucks to be you.

There are rules for rookies in the NFL. They enter a new world with tons of questions, uncertain of the answers.

The Patriots announced the signed defensive lineman Adrian Grady to their practice squad.

Based on the last couple of weeks, the doubt that Brady would return to form has subsided , but I still see him struggling with consistency a bit.

Join your fellow Patriots ' fans here to chat before, during and after the game! The official injury list hasn't been posted yet but M.R. is reporting Julian Edelman may be a game time decision and Ron Brace is working out under the watchful eye of the training and strength staff.

Watching the Patriots beat the Dolphins 27-17 Sunday, I got the impression that if that game had been played 100 times in 100 alternate universes the Patriots would have won all 100.

Maybe it was a master plan, one formulated in the wake of their historic meltdown against the Colts in the AFC Championship in 2006.

Joey Porter was running his mouth all week - what else is new? - but the Miami linebacker was silent yesterday.

Myron Pryor isn't talkative by nature. Just ask those who knew him as a star for the University of Kentucky's defense.

Steve played 14 seasons for the Patriots as an ILB and was voted to the Pro-Bowl 3 times.

The Patriots have, by NFL standards, been pretty healthy as a team this season. But there have still been injuries, the latest one being to Jarvis Green .

The Patriots had four second-round selections in April's draft, and the early verdict is they put them to good use.

New England Patriots starting defensive lineman Jarvis Green underwent knee surgery last week, and reportedly could be out anywhere from two weeks to a month.

Last Sunday in England, the Patriots used a substitution pattern at defensive tackle that would have been difficult to imagine before the season.

Running back Sammy Morris is among the inactive players for the New England Patriots against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Wembley Stadium.

Patriots defensive lineman Ron Brace has been inactive the last three games. By Rich Garven TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF rgarven@telegram.com FOXBORO - Ron Brace has been working hard on a daily basis since joining the Patriots in April, the exception being Sundays when the large and likeable defensive lineman has been mostly a bystander.

The benching this afternoon of high-priced, free-agent linebacker Adalius Thomas is the latest in a series of personnel moves by the Patriots that indicate they may be losing the "magic touch" that helped them win three Super Bowls in four years from 2001-2004 and go undefeated in 2007 before losing Super Bowl XLII to the N.Y. Giants in the final ...

Inactives for today's game include WR Joey Galloway , CB Terrence Wheatley, RB Fred Taylor, S James Sanders, OL Rich Ohrnberger, G Kendall Simmons, DL Terdell Sands and DL Ron Brace, according to the Patriots Twitter account.

Bill Belichick made the call, Junior Seau answered, and just like that the 40-year old linebacker left his surfboard-and-sports-dad lifestyle behind.

The announcement of the inactives and the absence of Jerod Mayo from the list means that Mayo will make his return today.