For the second straight year, the New England Patriots’ offseason was rather tumultuous. But while 2018 was dominated by rumors about internal dysfunction between the organization’s top-three — Tom Brady, Bill Belichick, Robert Kraft — 2019 had none of that. Instead, the period since the Patriots’ Super Bowl win was dominated mostly by considerable personnel turnover both on and off the field.
Standing in the eye of the storm, as always, was Belichick in his dual role as head coach and general manager: he had to oversee six assistant coaches leaving, Greg Schiano coming and then suddenly going again, and the departures of a core member of the scouting team and the club’s character coach.