Thoughts on the Patriots’ transaction whirlwind while refreshing Twitter to see who else they’ve signed in the last five minutes …
Is this a deviation from the way Bill Belichick usually does business? Of course it is. There have been offseasons when he has spent big or added accomplished names to the roster. The most-cited example is before the 2007 season, with Wes Welker, Randy Moss, and Adalius Thomas coming to Foxborough. Entering 2003, he paid up for Rosevelt Colvin and Rodney Harrison. And there’s the more recent relative binge, before the 2017 season, when he signed Bills cornerback Stephon Gilmore to a $65 million deal ($31 million guaranteed), when most of us mistakenly thought that money should have gone to Malcolm Butler.