Welcome to Season 9, Episode 12 of the Unconventional Preview, a serious-yet-lighthearted, nostalgia-tinted look at the Patriots’ weekly matchup.
It’s been many years since the Patriots and their fans have been afflicted with a case of Quarterback Envy. Decades, even. We’d probably have to go back to the middle of the 1993 season — when rookie No. 1 overall pick Drew Bledsoe was injured and unproven and someone named Scott Secules was starting at quarterback — to find a time when we might have coveted another franchise’s situation at the most important position in sports. Maybe it goes even further back than that.