Multiple HUGE Patriots updates... Major Changes coming

We have multiple huge Patriots updates as they just got great news on an injury update from Mike Rabel on one specific player, plus some major changes are coming with the offensive line given the injury to Michael Wynjew. Rabel gives us an inside look into what we can expect and who could take his spot. We break it all down for you here today on Patriots Digest. Welcome everybody. I'm JC Anderson. I hope you're having a great day wherever you guys might be. Lots of interesting news, updates, and rumors from Rabes today gave us, of course, an inside look into a couple injuries, specifically Draymond Jones and, of course, Michael Wynjew. He didn't rule him out for the season, which, by the way, was kind of interesting. You'd think that would probably be a season-ending injury, but he said that in the short term we cannot rely on him. And, of course, that just brings up the discussion of who exactly is going to take over his spot. But let's get to kind of one-by-one here and break it down step-by-step. Here it is on Draymond Jones, and this is some really, really good news. Everything that Draymond Jones went through yesterday seems to be a little bit more minor than what we expected. May have been a shoulder dislocation. We don't really exactly know the specifics of the injury, but he did say this. Draymond Jones will do everything he can to be ready for Sunday's game against the Jaguars. I don't know how he's going to progress during the week. I know that he wasn't able to finish the game, obviously. He'll do everything he can to be ready, and if he's not, then we'll have alternate plans, which alternate plans do involve Gabe Ackes, and he actually looked pretty good. We'll talk about him in a second as well, but I'm actually kind of shocked. I really thought with the injury that it looked like it was probably going to be a multi-week absence for Draymond Jones. The fact that he is trying to play this week at worst probably means we see him for the Buffalo Bills game in week number four, which I will 100% take, given the situation that we had yesterday with all the injuries going on. Speaking of injuries, week two had a lot of them. Week two will wrap up tonight with LA versus New York, and the Giants and Rams taking on each other. I'm going to trade yes on Cauchy for the Giants to win this one. I'm going to buy into what they did last week against the Cowboys, and I'm going to buy into the Rams not looking as good. I know it's Aaron Donovan. I know he's making a return. That's great. I'm putting $25, though, on a trade for yes for the Giants to win this game. $88.07 will come right back to me once they win, and if you're on Cauchy, you're going to be trading directly against other users, not the house, like an additional sports book. 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Obviously, we could get him back in week five, and once you have those two, along with what Gabe Ackes is doing, I'm going to say that it's going to be a pretty good addressing group. Now, I do want to focus on Ackes real quick before we turn our attention to the offensive line, because there was some interesting things that were said yesterday about Ackes. Obviously, I do think there is some really intriguing reports about Ackes out there, some people saying that he's an unblocked merchant, or that he has gotten kind of lucky. I'm going to go with the fact that he's played well, and the stats are there, and I'm going to just run with that. I don't know that I'm saying that he's going to be the defensive rookie of the year, but he's looking really solid out there right now, and I think it was interesting, because yesterday Aaron Rodgers, future Hall of Fame quarterback, right? He said, great effing job, man, when he went up and hugged Gabe Ackes. Ackes obviously was the guy who picked the ball off the kind of errant pass from Bernhardt, bounced off his hands, and then if it weren't for the head Aaron Rodgers, he would have picked six for Ackes as well, so I did find that interesting, but I'm excited to see what he's able to do over the next couple of weeks, especially if Draymond Jones is not able to go this week. A lot of pressure is going to be put on him, and there's going to be a lot to diagnose, and guess what? They're going to put the better blocker, and there's a lot of things that go with that. They're going to chip him more. Over his first two games, I'll take a sack and an interception and say that it's pretty solid. Seven tackles as well in very limited snaps throughout these first two games. He's actually played Gabe Ackes a lot, has had some pretty high comments about him, and I think that right now, you've got to look at him as a really prioritization piece given what this outside linebacker room looks like and what exactly you could be left with if Jones cannot go this week against a very talented Jaguars team, even despite the loss yesterday to the Broncos. That all being said, that was one of the minor injuries when it comes to all things said. The bigger injury was obviously to Mike Owenu and kind of what happened there, and that is where we go to Mike Grable. Knowing that Owenu, I mentioned, is not technically out for the season just yet, at least Mike Grable didn't say that, yet he probably will not be available in the short term. The question became, who's going to take over at the right guard position? That's where first round pick Caleb Lomu came up as a potential option, and here's what Mike Grable had to say on that option. Quote, there's a lot of things we could look at. Caleb's been trying to predominantly practice and be there and be ready to go playing tackle. Excuse me, we've got some guys we can move in there and Caleb would be one of those guys that we can possibly do that with, but again, we just have to make sure that we have the best five available. Just my take on this, we know what Greg Van Roten brought to the team, we've seen their PFA grades, they're not solid. I can't see a better player to take over in that right guard slot than Caleb Lomu. We knew that he was taking a lot of, you know, snaps across the offensive line this training camp. Most of the time he was backing up Morgan Moses, but he also played some snaps at guard because they were thin there. Walter Roos was a guy who wasn't on the roster before when training camp started. Greg Van Roten was a guy who wasn't on the roster when training camp started. I think the best situation is to put Caleb Lomu, because listen, you want to put the best five out there? Okay. Walter Roos, Ben Brown, Greg Van Roten, Demetri Kronover, Kronover was hurt by the way, Ben Brown was too. There's no other player that's better than Caleb Lomu on your active roster to replace Michael in you for. But that's just my take. And I think it's the right one. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but I can't see it being a whole thing. And it's been an injury, you know, written game two, it was a very unfortunate time because you had a when you of course suffered the major injury, Raritan left, Jones left, Pettis left, Jones, he left, he did return, but just all over the board, there was injuries galore. And I do think that there is, you know, some options for the Patriots to in-house fix their guard situation. They've got Ben Brown, Walter Roos, Greg Van Roten. I just can't see anything being better than Caleb Lomu unless you decide to go outside the organization. And that's where, you know, maybe we'll make a video on that tomorrow about potential trade options, signing options for a guard option. If you do not want to go out and sign and you truth be believed that Michael, when you could return this season, then I'm 100% putting Caleb Lomu at the position because he was your first round draft pick, right? You got to go put him in the fire and let him work. And, you know, we talked so much about moving Will Campbell in the tackle, honestly, with Morgan Moses, I understand the goal long term was to put Lomu over the tackle. But now with the potential, you know, snag of not being able to have when you and we don't know what's going to come out from injury and this contract going to be that we have no clue. I'm putting Caleb Lomu like 10 times out of 10. Let me know what you think in the comments section. Do you think Caleb Lomu should take over right guard for the New England Patriots? If you believe so, and you agree with me, then type Y for yes. If you think that is not the case scenario, the better option is either one of the other players or you think that they should go out and sign or trade for somebody, then type in for no. But let us know down in the comments section what your thoughts are on Caleb Lomu taking over that right guard position. I'm personally of the mindset that, you know, that's going to be the best situation. But as of right now, of course, we really don't know and kind of the best position moving forward. Now, Lomu has not played in the NFL just yet, at least effective snaps enough to be, you know, greater than PFF wise, but he had really great grades across college. He was one of the best pass blocking guys in all of college football. His run blocking grade and his overall grade were both really solid as well. So given you want to protect Drake May, I just I can't see a better option than this. But maybe there's a guy out there. They want to go trade for me. Maybe there's a guy that they've had their eye on knowing that this could be a possibility and we'll wait and see when that happens. For now, though, guys, we appreciate you watching and we'll see you next time on the show. Peace out, guys.