10 months of Patriots roster construction is basically summarized by that game
>Be Bill Belichick
>Push all your chips in on the defense
>Big offseason offensive acquisitions are: Austin Seferian Jenkins, Bruce Ellington, Maurice Harris and DT (zero make the week 1 roster)
>Just completely ignore the TE position
>You are notoriously awful at drafting receivers
>Obviously you draft the 8th best WR in the draft in the first rd
>Realize that you might not have done the best job at addressing the offense and you literally can't win in an offensive league with the worst group of skill players in the league
>Sign crazy person AB to fix it
>He inevitably does crazy person shit and gets rightfully cut
>Still realize that you have no TE or receivers
>Cut your starting (39 year old) TE just for fun
>Resign him later when you realize you actually don't have a TE now
>Fulfill your 2 year long fetish by shooting a 2nd rd pick into the sun to get Mo Sanu over Manny Sanders
>Realize Sanu can't separate and is actually slower than all your current receivers
>Watch Manny sanders tear it up in San Fran
>lose to all 3 AFC top seeds because they have explosive offenses/skill players that you just don't have the weaponry to compete with
>unleash a ridiculously conservative gameplan week 17 against the dolphins because your only viable receiver (edelman) is hurt
>watch your defense get torn up by an actually good receiver
>Blow a first rd bye
Next step:
AJ Brown (the receiver you should have drafted but passed on twice) burns your defense for 125 yards in the wildcard round.
BUT I STILL BELIEVE
>Be Bill Belichick
>Push all your chips in on the defense
>Big offseason offensive acquisitions are: Austin Seferian Jenkins, Bruce Ellington, Maurice Harris and DT (zero make the week 1 roster)
>Just completely ignore the TE position
>You are notoriously awful at drafting receivers
>Obviously you draft the 8th best WR in the draft in the first rd
>Realize that you might not have done the best job at addressing the offense and you literally can't win in an offensive league with the worst group of skill players in the league
>Sign crazy person AB to fix it
>He inevitably does crazy person shit and gets rightfully cut
>Still realize that you have no TE or receivers
>Cut your starting (39 year old) TE just for fun
>Resign him later when you realize you actually don't have a TE now
>Fulfill your 2 year long fetish by shooting a 2nd rd pick into the sun to get Mo Sanu over Manny Sanders
>Realize Sanu can't separate and is actually slower than all your current receivers
>Watch Manny sanders tear it up in San Fran
>lose to all 3 AFC top seeds because they have explosive offenses/skill players that you just don't have the weaponry to compete with
>unleash a ridiculously conservative gameplan week 17 against the dolphins because your only viable receiver (edelman) is hurt
>watch your defense get torn up by an actually good receiver
>Blow a first rd bye
Next step:
AJ Brown (the receiver you should have drafted but passed on twice) burns your defense for 125 yards in the wildcard round.
BUT I STILL BELIEVE