With all the NFL’s top power brokers gathered at the Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix for the league’s spring meetings, the Patriots will once again be at the top of the football world, and not simply because they won another Super Bowl.
They’ll be in the catbird seat because at least one quarterback-starved team will be bowing at their feet, offering up its first born and every first- and second-round pick it can muster up to try and move Bill Belichick off the stance he won’t be trading Jimmy Garoppolo. And that’s just for starters.
Then there’s Malcolm Butler.