The Patriots have a mediocre 25-25 record since Tom Brady left, and the pressure is on head coach and general manager Bill Belichick to make things better.
During his end-of-the-year press conference, Belichick pointed out that New England has been at the bottom of the league in spending over the past three seasons. His comments were in response to a question about the value the Patriots got out of their pricey 2021 free-agent class.
“Our spending in 2020, our spending in 2021, and our spending in 2022 — the aggregate of that — was we were 27th in the league in cash spending,” Belichick said at the time.