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As Patriots look to retool offense in 2025, incredible 2007 offseason looms even larger

It’s not often a team can pull off two all-time great trades for players at the same position in the same offseason, but that’s exactly what Bill Belichick and the Patriots engineered in a franchise-altering two-month span in 2007.

As the modern Patriots take stock of the team’s less-than-ideal wide receiver corps — simultaneous also to the Boston.com bracket of the “best trades in Boston sports history” — it’s worth looking back at the time New England was able to add both Wes Welker and Randy Moss for next to nothing.

“It took the air out of me.