Bye bye Brady and Kraft!

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63. I have business associates in the region of the team.

So I follow them as much as I do the Dolphins. The Patriot's issue this year was they didn't have a down field threat outside of Edelman, and teams double-teamed him and dared one of the other pass catchers to hurt them. Gronkowski gave Edelman room to work, so my guess is the Patriots go for a dangerous pass catching tight end out of college, this year is rich with such tight ends, but only 2-3 of them also can run block, my guess is the Patriots draft one of that 2-3.

Also, my friends there say that the offensive line was pretty beaten up this year, the team lost it's starting center for the season and maybe forever (blood clots, I think) and the critical left tackle was out for most of the season with injuries, they also lost their starting right tackle near the end of the season, and both their starting and backup fullback. Without the threat of effective running, passing in the NFL become much more difficult.