When your team engineers the single greatest dynasty in American professional sports, there’s bound to be a few alumni that move on from the organization and have, let’s say, the kind of credibility where their takes need to be accompanied with as many grains of salt as an Auntie Ann’s pretzel. Not going to name names or anything, but suffice to say, maybe Asante Samuel isn’t the best resource for analysis of Bill Belichick’s cap management acumen.
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On the other hand, there’s the franchise legends that Bill Belichick has trusted with crucial jobs in the Patriots organization for years and even decades, and then there’s an even smaller sliver of those that when they talk, you sit straight up in your chair, set your work IM status to “Busy — Do Not Disturb”, and just listen.