Bill Belichick doesn’t talk about injuries, and apparently you can’t trust what he puts on paper.
Two former Patriots, Brandon Spikes and Aqib Talib, spoke up about the team’s sketchy injury reports. Spikes was put on IR before the Patriots’ playoff win over the Colts with a knee injury, but it was reported the move was really made because he was late to a team meeting.
“I heard they put me on IR and stuff like that,” Spikes, who signed with the rival Bills this offseason, told a Buffalo radio station.
“That was just a false report. That’s just how things go there. Almost like what happened with Talib and his hip.”
Speaking of …
Talib missed three games in the middle of the season with what the Patriots called a hip injury, but the new Bronco says it wasn’t his hip at all.
“The Patriots have their way of reporting stuff, but I haven’t had a hip problem since Tampa,” Talib said Wednesday. “The injury I had was actually a quad injury. It was reported as a hip injury, but that’s how they do things.”