Seth Wickersham’s new Patriots-centric book “It’s Better to be Feared” doesn’t just deal in Tom Brady-Bill Belichick debate fodder. It also casts an image of the New England offense led by someone other than Mac Jones in the 2021 season — and that man wasn’t Cam Newton, either.
Wickersham writes the Patriots did engage in preliminary discussions with the San Francisco 49ers about trading for the team’s former second-round quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo prior to the 2021 NFL Draft before ultimately passing on a deal and selecting Jones.
“There was an informal call between a high-level representative of the Patriots and a high-level 49ers official,” the author wrote.