The offseason after losing a Super Bowl, where everything is broken and needs to be fixed yesterday, nothing is fine, every decision gets second-guessed, and the Patriots need to draft all the guys at every position. It’s almost enough to make one miss Dont’a Hightower Watch 2017™.
Speaking of which, High’s return should be a Red Bull on a Sunday morning to the defensive front-seven next season, so there’s that. That’s basically a given, what with Hightower’s nose for the football saving the Patriots in both of the last two Super Bowls he played in and the high-dive board the defense backflipped off of when Dont’a was lost for the season with a torn pectoral muscle.