this game showed that the stress of having the rookie wr’s falls on the shoulders of injury prone guys who aren’t really built to handle that pressure (amendola, edelman, and vereen). they responded well in this game, but I don’t think that’s something we can count on happening too often. how many more hits before those three get hurt again? this is where we need ridley and blount to step up. not at all dissatisfied with thompkins but boyce needs more than 15 snaps on thursday night

And of course as I was getting ready to respond to this we find out Vereen is out a few weeks for wrist surgery. I’m not usually one to worry too much about guys who may or may not be “injury prone”, but Amendola’s groin certainly looked to get worse yesterday. Hopefully it doesn’t linger. And Edelman made it through one game healthy so we got that going for us. Hopefully he holds up.

There’s no question the learning curve with the rookies was apparent yesterday. Thompkins could almost do no wrong in preseason, and even when he did he bounced right back and made some tough catches. Yesterday he looked like a rookie, and an undrafted one at that. They’ll just have to continue working him and Boyce and Dobson in (once his hammy is okay).

There’s no other way around it. Every receiver on the roster is either a rookie or had injury issues in the past. Just have to keep putting them out there, letting them make their mistakes, and cross our fingers they can stay healthy. As always, we’re building for January/February, and every game they win early in the season is one they won’t have to make up at the end.