A commerce within the NFL has been described in a number of alternative ways.
The comparability that Mike Vrabel used on Wednesday could also be a primary, although.
The Patriots coach was fielding questions on the workforce’s facility when a reporter requested if New England had gotten shut to creating any trades earlier than the 4 p.m. deadline on Tuesday.
That’s when Vrabel broke out a slightly distinctive approach to describe a commerce.
“Effectively, first I’d say that offers are like being pregnant — you both are otherwise you aren’t. There’s no, like … it’s both a deal or it’s not, so I don’t know the way shut you may be,” Vrabel chimed in earlier than the reporter might end their query. “I do know that everybody labored laborious and that we investigated and appeared in and made cellphone calls and did what personnel departments do. Ultimately, we determined that this was what we had been gonna do.”
There had been murmurs that the Patriots had been wanting so as to add on the working again or broad receiver place.
Jakobi Meyers, a reputation that the Patriots had been linked to, was dealt by the Raiders to the Jaguars.
And New England did find yourself sending security Kyle Dugger to the Steelers and edge rusher Keion White to the 49ers previous to the deadline coming and going.
When Vrabel was requested if he ever considered workforce being aggressive on the deadline, he mentioned that he “by no means actually checked out it that manner.”
“I feel we’re making an attempt to construct a program, the identical factor that we mentioned after we acquired right here,” Vrabel mentioned.
The Patriots have been a shock within the AFC at 7-2 on the season and sit atop the AFC East.
The Patriots will face the Buccaneers on Sunday at 1 p.m. at Raymond James Stadium.
