BSJ Daily Briefing 09.23.17

Good (late) morning.

Kind of a lull here in the action. The Red Sox are playing one of the worst teams in the National League (wee, interleague play in the last week of the season! Feel the excitement!), the Bruins play tonight in Detroit and, of course, we're all just waiting for the Patriots to play the Texans tomorrow at The Razor to give us something real to talk about (how is Malcolm Butler being used? Is Alan Branch going to play or just look like me in between trips to the buffet? Who will Bill O'Brien scream at next? Will a janitor wind up playing QB for the Texans at some point this season?)

Speaking of the Texans, if you missed our New England Roots series debut, here is the session with O'Brien. It's worth your time before you see him on the sidelines tomorrow.

Hope everyone is enjoying the weekend with friends and family. For us, it's one of those weekends spent at a lot of hockey rinks and soccer fields (between lots of BSJ work, of course). Love it.

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And away we go...

CATCHING UP

Patriots

My Texans scouting report, with a couple added members bonuses we don't talk about at BSJ.

Miguel Benzan is tracking the Patriots' incentives. The man is obsessed.

Gronk's good to go. Yeah, because he has per-game incentives now to play.

Vincent Valentine went on IR, so does that mean the Patriots need Alan Branch? 

Patriots-Texans injury report.

I did a Live Q&A. Lots of good questions.

Bruins

I reposted this from late Friday because it was really good and posted really late: Bruins have found another Brad Marchand, and he loves it. (Pretty soon they'll start an assembly line of little balls of hate)

Red Sox

We received a glimpse at how David Price will be used in the postseason.

Live Coverage of the Sox' 5-4 win.

Celtics

Examining the small lineup possibilities.

Kyrie Irving loves him some Jayson Tatum. 

ON TAP

10 a.m.: Bruins pre-game skate #1, Warrior Ice Arena (McDonald)
11:15 a.m.: Bruins pre-game #2, Warrior Ice Arena (McDonald)
4:10 p.m.: Red Sox at Cincinnati Reds
7 p.m.: Bruins at Detroit Red Wings

PARTING THOUGHT 

Wut.

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