Starting right guard Brandon Brooks practiced all week. He was prepared to face the Buffalo Bills. In fact, it wasn’t until early Sunday morning, a little over four hours before kickoff, that there was any indication he wouldn’t.
“He was sick,” head coach Bill O’Brien said after the game. “He came into the meal room this morning; he had been throwing up all night. One of those food bugs, I suppose.”
Brooks was ruled inactive, missing his second start of the season. The fourth-year offensive lineman did not play on Oct. 25 at Miami. Oday Aboushi, who spent the 2013 and 2014 seasons with the New York Jets, started in his place.