It's a rebuild that, of course, will include potential home visits, offering NIL packages and utilizing the transfer portal — compared to the free agent market that he utilized as the Patriots general manager during his time in the NFL.

THEY MET EVERY week, Bill Belichick and a handful of his former assistants with the New England Patriots. Matt Patricia, Michael Lombardi, Josh McDaniels, to name a few, men with whom he had won Super Bowls, all of them out of work. They'd chat over Zoom ...