The long-awaited, oft-predicted plan is in motion.
Failed starter Mac Jones is on his way to Jacksonville.
Bridge backup Jacoby Brissett is back in Foxborough.
Safety nets Bailey Zappe and Nathan Rourke remain on the roster, at least for now.
The stage is set.
Can there be any doubt about what the Patriots plan to do with the No. 3 pick in the upcoming draft?
The great quarterback reset is fully underway, just months after the great coaching reset. The roster rebuild under first-year, first-time coach Jerod Mayo and de facto general manager Eliot Wolf starts with a wholesale change at quarterback — the latest in a long line of attempts to escape one very long, very intimidating shadow.