Pitch me a tent in the camp that believes this Jimmy Garoppolo business is just another clever shell game by the Patriots.
You know: Get the word out at that their mega-touted backup quarterback is not, repeat not, going to be traded and then sit back and wait for a conga line of playoff-starved teams to line up their first-round draft picks.
Somewhere in the great beyond, Red Auerbach is getting quite a kick out of this.
We keep talking about how Bill Belichick is a genius, as Red was, but that’s only part of it.