The New England Patriots should have done more ahead of Tuesday’s NFL trade deadline.
The 2-7 Patriots are going nowhere fast. They lost to Tyler Huntley’s Miami Dolphins, the dysfunctional Jacksonville Jaguars before Mason Rudolph and the one-win Tennessee Titans served as the icing on the cake. If New England doesn’t qualify as a seller before the deadline, who does?
It’s understandable first-year head coach Jerod Mayo wants to establish a culture in New England. Keeping building blocks who will remain in Foxboro, Mass. for the long-term makes some sense. But the Patriots have plenty of other players who don’t fit that bill.