Patriots To Splurge In Free Agency? NFL Insider Points To ‘Stack Of Cash’

The New England Patriots have enough cap space to address the issues they had in 2020. Head coach Bill Belichick will have to get all the right players to make the playoffs in 2021. The Patriots will probably make some moves in the upcoming free agency in order to get the much-needed assets.

Is Belichick willing to give out big cash?

Patriots to enter free agency in style

Field Yates believes the Patriots will splurge on the open market. New England went 7-9 in the first Tom Brady-less season.

“You look at teams, like, for example, the Patriots, who are flush with capital this offseason in terms of cap space,” Yates said Thursday on ESPN’s “Get Up.” “This is a team that could have 60-plus million dollars in cap space if they do nothing. That number could balloon if they make a couple of cuts on their own. And let me ask you something that’s a rhetorical question: Do you think Bill Belichick wants to go 7-9 again next year? Yeah, we know the answer to that question.

“We’ll talk about the quarterback solution the Patriots have to figure out at some point this offseason. But when you’ve got teams that are effectively sitting out in free agency — you’ve gone from 32 to 24 teams that are actually spending and the Patriots have a stack of cash — I know this team was down last year, but I expect them to look a lot different by the time we get to the first wave of free agency. Bill Belichick is ready to spend.”

Getting a quarterback is a must at this point. Veteran quarterback Cam Newton struggled in his first season with the team. New England may not give him another contract in 2021. Jarrett Stidham and Jake Dolegala are the only quarterbacks under contract with the team in 2021.

Coach Belichick may not go into free agency for his next quarterback. He may get the player from the NFL draft. New England will soon make a move. Let’s see how will things turn for the Patriots. They are in desperate need of a quarterback.