Things can definitely change pretty quickly, and the outlook heading into tonight certainly looks quite different now that Jimmy Garoppolo’s potential return may be on the table.
While some may seem to be split on this, Garoppolo coming back to the Patriots would be an absolute game-changer for the 2021 season. It’s not ideal, but it sort of comes back to one of the strategies we’ve seen with Bill Belichick over the years and that’s to target the known over the unknown when it truly counts.
That’s been the approach – for the most part – at the skill positions, specifically at receiver where Belichick changed his strategy and started acquiring guys like Wes Welker, Randy Moss and Chris Hogan, who were all established players on the rise when New England pounced and added them.