Some thoughts on this Thursday:
1) It’s hard to believe the Super Bowl is already nearly a week behind us, which pushes us deeper into the offseason and more importantly, closer toward the process of building next year’s Patriots team.
One of the key periods is going to be player evaluations in preparation for the upcoming draft, which is certainly going to be a little more challenging. The Patriots saw former director of player personnel Dave Ziegler depart to Las Vegas to take the job as general manager, which left them with a big hole to fill after Ziegler reportedly played a big role in last year’s draft.