This might be the first time since the 1992 season that Patriots fans have needed the bye week as much as the players.
So I’ll spare you a detailed blunder-by-blunder review of these Patriots, who hit their break with a 2-8 record and a franchise crossroads on the horizon, and instead summarize their first 10 games this way:
The Patriots are an objectively bad team desperately in need of a talent infusion that has a legendary coach whose prolonged personnel failings have undermined him, a shattered once-promising quarterback, and better players on injured reserve than it has on its active roster.