Report: Patriots Rule Out Stephon Gilmore, Two Others For Bills Game

The Patriots have ruled out Stephon Gilmore and two others before their game against the Bills. The Patriots are not looking very good going into this week vs the Buffalo Bills. Sadly, it all started when they were struggling with the positive COVID tests. This happened several weeks back and started with QB Cam Newton.

Bill Belichick talked about this a few weeks back when was asked about what they were doing to get back on track. He said that they were taking things slowly going into their game against the Broncos. Take a look.

“Today’s an important day in our preparation for the Broncos,” Belichick said. “We’ve had several days now of virtual meetings between the staff members and from the staff to the players. We’ve been able to cover a lot of things, but we haven’t spent any time together, so today’s our opportunity to do that. We look forward to that. One thing that we’ve learned this year repeatedly has been we have to be ready to adjust and adapt to changes and modifications and the way we do things and, in some cases, decisions that really come down to a very short amount of time that we have to be ready to adjust to.”

“So we’re certainly taking things day by day — probably hour by hour would be more accurate. We’ll just see how we progress and then as we find out more on our end, or if there are other things externally that we can’t control that, then we’ll deal with those as they come. That’s the way it’s been all year. I think our team and our players have done a good job of handling those adjustments, and we’ll continue to do that.”

Report: Patriots Rule Out Stephon Gilmore, Two Others For Bills Game

Sadly, it might not be getting any better before it gets worse. According to recent reports, the Patriots will be without Stephon Gilmore.

The Patriots have downgraded corner Stephon Gilmore (knee), safety Kyle Dugger (ankle) and offensive lineman Justin Herron (ankle) to out for Sunday’s game. This means that the three did not travel to Buffalo.

This will break a streak of 53 consecutive starts (including postseason) for Gilmore. He has not missed a game since Week 8 of the 2017 season. In fact, he has even played 98.7 percent of New England’s defensive snaps this season which is good for second-most on the team behind safety Devin McCourty (99.7 percent).