It doesn’t matter if you’re an OG that sat on the frozen aluminum bleachers at Foxboro Stadium or if you’re not even old enough to buy a 6-pack yet, the one thing all Patriots fans know better than most that’s always held true throughout the decades is this: nothing else matters if you don’t have the quarterback.
And after Mac Jones’ rookie campaign last season, there’s plenty of reason to believe that the New England Patriots emerged from their devastating ~3 months of QB wilderness after the end of the 2020 season and found theirs. It’s easy to say that now, but after the first few games of the 2021 season, the feeling was generally that we had paid for a Corvette, but we were only using it to make a Dunkin’ Donuts run.