There could not have been a funnier weekend for the Patriots and Mike Vrabel to head down to Nashville and take on the Titans.

All week, the Patriots (rightfully) highlighted the importance of "winning" the second half of games, and wouldn't you know it, that's where their worst football as a team would come from. Not that it was a spectacular first half from them either, but the lack of a coherent run game, ability to take advantage of good passing opportunities because Maye was either being pressured off the edge or just sailing balls, and the cavalcade of chunk plays allowed...

The phrase, "taking advantage of bad football," was something everyone gravitated towards in Vrabel's opening presser, and simply looking at the Patriots' schedule, those opportunities should be there.

In a long, prestigious line of "shifty and scrappy" white wide receivers who are < 6'0" in Patriots history, Eastern Washington's Efton Chism III appears to be in line to take up that mantle for this team in 2025.

Is this team close to a Super Bowl as of right now? Absolutely not, but they didn't build Rome in a day, either.

While the moves promise fresh leadership, they also underscore the ever-present demand for immediate success in a win-now culture that...

The Bill Belichick era, the greatest in team, and quite frankly sports history, is over, but the more things change, the more they stay...