The past years (since 2007) I’ve closely followed the Pats, the free agency and draft are like annual events of hopeful anticipation, mixed with dread and drama and of course the always quotable reaction: “WHAT THE F#% ARE THEY DOING!” (OR NOT DOING!). Yet, they always keep a team that would compete at the end. Should this year after winning the SB XLIX , be any different? Or much worse? Thank you.

It’s the same thing every year, I’m not sure why fans ride the same wave of misery and elation, guess they just enjoy it. As the Scott Pioli quote goes “we’re building a team, not collecting talent”. 2013 proved that. The Patriots under BB play as a team and thus, they’ve always been very good no matter how talented they were. Even when the defense was terrible (2010) they went 14-2. Granted, they were flawed and lost in the first round, but you get the idea.

What everyone should take solace in is that they HAVE to spend money this year. They can’t just let Revis/McCourty/Vereen walk and replace them with rookies. 

And you know you’ll be shocked at least once next week, for good or for bad. That’s the fun of the offseason with the Patriots. I just try to sit back and enjoy the ride, and analyze what they do. At this point, I think they know what they’re doing.