Bill Belichick has made a lot of fantastic trades through the years — trades that have helped the New England Patriots become and stay the most consistently dominant team in football for 20 years. When you do it for as long as Belichick has, you’re bound to have some misses, though.
The Mohamed Sanu trade might be the biggest miss of Belichick’s Patriots tenure. Let’s take a closer look at why.
Before we start, it should be noted that I am not including any trades of just draft picks. It would be easy to point to the Patriots trading down with the Green Bay Packers and missing out on Clay Matthews, or the Patriots trading up with the Packers and taking Chad Jackson while the Pack took Greg Jennings.