Fox Sports whiner Colin Cowherd told us in July that the Patriots do not have a Super Bowl-winning roster, which is a strange thing to say in August unless you remember that the job is a hot-winded quest to get us to notice.
I suppose the Patriots didn’t technically have a Super Bowl-winning roster last year, since they finished a play or two away from . . . well, from winning the Super Bowl. They have since lost some accomplished talent — Malcolm Butler, Dion Lewis, Nate Solder, Danny Amendola, Brandin Cooks.
But it’s reassuring to remember that some of that talent wasn’t especially accomplished in the NFL when it got here.