If you don’t think things are messy with the Patriots these days, you’re, like, not very smart.
And to borrow a line from the horror-movie industry, the calls are coming from inside Gillette Stadium.
That’s what’s so crazy about all this. Feel free to blame the bubbling Brady-Belichick-Kraft crisis on the evildoers from ESPN if it’ll make you sleep better and keep your focus on the Patriots’ Gillette Stadium playoff showdown against Tennessee on Saturday night, but a couple of basic facts illustrate otherwise.
Fact No. 1: Jimmy Garoppolo stopped being a back-up quarterback a long time ago.