Break? I Still Have It As A Bruise...

WEEI in Boston reported this morning that Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has a cracked bone in his foot.

John Dennis, co-host of the Dennis and Callahan show on EEI (disclosure: I'm an occasional paid blabber on said station) couched his revelation by saying there's a "circle of four" people in Foxborough who have first-hand information on injuries. The four include the player, head coach Bill Belichick, trainer Jim Whelan and the doctor doing the examining.

With that as a backdrop, Dennis added, "There are several people outside of that circle of four who have first-hand knowledge of what happened and here's the story that I'm hearing. On or about August 15, Tom went and took an MRI. People familiar with that MRI said theat there's a cracked bone in Tom Brady's foot. May be slightly cracked. May be a hairline crack. May be ...I don't know the difference between a hairline fracture and a stress fracture but whatever the case may be, he's going to play through it, he is playing through it, he's practicing through it, but this is the reason we haven't seen him in games."

Earlier this week I mentioned on this blog that Brady's injury is a bruised instep that - as Dennis said - won't prevent him from playing. Given Brady's practice participation since August 15 and based on what I'm hearing, there is no broken or fractured bone. It's a deep bruise. And while it may seem moot because it's probably going to hurt the same either way, at least the integrity of the foot structure (how's that for sounding doctorly) isn't compromised.