Bill Belichick Explains How Patriots Are Approaching Trade Deadline

Bill Belichick has explained how the Patriots are going about getting to the trade deadline. It is obvious that the Patriots are playing better. They are coming off of a win against the Los Angeles Chargers on the road. It was a great win, probably their best of the season. The week before, they dismantled a poor Jets team by about 40 points. It has been two great wins for a Patriots that started the season off slow.

That does not mean that the team is perfect, though. That slow start to the season showed some big holes on both sides of the ball. Offensively, they are in need of some play makers to surround Mac Jones. Jones is a rookie that has had his ups and downs. Offensive weapons are hard to come by and they will need to make some moves if they want to get anything good in return.

Bill Belichick was asked about the deadline recently.

“I think this is the time of year that personnel departments always communicate with each other,” Belichick said the morning after his team’s 27-24 win over the Los Angeles Chargers. “And we’ve certainly had, probably, the normal amount of communication with other teams that, whether they have an interest in a player or want to exchange a player or maybe have somebody that (they would trade).”

Bill Belichick Explains How Patriots Are Approaching Trade Deadline

“Those conversations go on, and we’ve had those where you talk for a week, 10 days, three or four days, whatever it is, and a situation’s imminent and never happens. And we’ve had other situations where it’s 2 o’clock on Tuesday afternoon and something comes up and you end up doing it.”

“Fairly normal … for teams to have a little different point of view than they might have had on Saturday or Friday or Thursday when you talked to them before,” Belichick said. “Somebody got hurt; guy that was available, they need to keep him; or something happened and they feel like they want to just go ahead and move on from a player.”

“And same thing for us. We’re sitting here today, and somebody could call, they lost somebody yesterday, and say, ‘Hey, you’ve got depth at this position, would you trade so and so?’ — or not.”

Belichick continued: “I’m not too worried about that. I think (Patriots personnel director) Dave Ziegler and his staff, they have most of the communications on that. They keep me informed if there’s something that looks like it might be moving, or moving slowly, in a direction.”