FOXBORO — Patriots linebacker Jahlani Tavai missed Sunday’s win with a personal issue, which the crew has saved personal.
Cornerback Carlton Davis III mentioned gamers wished to win for Tavai on Sunday, they usually FaceTimed the veteran linebacker after the 26-20 victory over the Bengals.
“Jahlani had a tough week, and he was heavy on our hearts,” Davis mentioned Monday afternoon. “And earlier than the sport, we wished to play for him, and make it about our household inside this facility.”
“It was a type of moments the place we felt like a household, like an actual household, and that’s what soccer’s all about,” Davis continued. “It’s about creating that brotherhood, having one another’s again on and off the sector. So, simply to have the ability to FaceTime him after a tricky win, and to see his smile and to see him in higher spirits was the whole lot for us. That’s what it’s all about. Now, we nonetheless are praying for him and his household, and we’re nonetheless hoping for the perfect. However getting that manner for him was the whole lot for us.”
Linebacker Jack Gibbens delivered a speech earlier than the sport, inspiring gamers to play for Tavai and the crew’s “brotherhood,” Davis mentioned Monday.
Davis credited head coach Mike Vrabel for fostering a detailed, familial connection throughout the crew this season.
“I feel you could see that the gamers on this crew and all people related to it, the group, care deeply about him,” Vrabel mentioned Monday.
Additional factors
Vrabel mentioned Patriots defensive coordinator Terrell Williams, who’s getting handled for prostate most cancers, is “persevering with to enhance from a well being standpoint.” “It’s a course of within the therapy, however I might say that he did the whole lot that he may to get himself prepared for the therapy, for the chemo, and so, subsequently, I feel that he’s responded nicely. It’s good to see him persevering with to have good weeks, after which are available and see us when he feels as much as it, which he has.” … Vrabel didn’t have damage updates on security Brenden Schooler (ankle) or defensive deal with Khyiris Tonga (chest) … The Giants fired Shane Bowen on Monday. Bowen labored with Vrabel at Ohio State in 2012 and with the Texans in 2016 and 2017. He then served as Vrabel’s exterior linebackers coach and defensive coordinator with the Titans from 2018 to 2023. Vrabel known as Bowen a detailed good friend and a superb coach. “This enterprise is — once more, issues occur. They make choices. So, I’ll help Shane the perfect that I can, and his household, however then additionally concentrate on the whole lot that now we have right here. So, that’s form of how this factor goes.” It’s not dangerous to have a detailed good friend a name away for any questions concerning the Giants this week.
