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PATRIOTS HAVE A NEW HIT-MAN READY TO DIGGS THROUGH THE BILLS MAFIA

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You knew it was going to just be a matter of time when Stefon Diggs would resurface in the AFC East. The old Patriots way is rebuilding mode as New England started things off by hiring a former player Mike Vrabel. He will lead the Empire back to the post-season to reclaim the galaxy. Vrabel played with the old regime and helped win some Superbowls with Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. After his playing, he went into coaching as he took on the head coaching job at Tennessee as their head coach. This off-season the Patriots have been restocking their shelves with some high priced talent. The Patriots just added Drake Maye, a number one wide receiver, as they give the 31 year old Diggs a three year deal worth 69 million which 26 of that is guaranteed. For Diggs it was show me the money and a chance to get revenge against one of his former teams he played for, the Bills. Now he will face them twice a year working for the new Empire.

Stefon Diggs was originally drafted by the Minnesota Vikings back in the 2015 NFL draft in the 5th round out of Maryland University. Diggs has ten seasons under his belt in the NFL as the Patriots will be the 4th team of his career. Diggs is a 4x Pro-Bowler and was named All-Pro once in his professional career. Diggs is a number one receiver for most teams in the NFL. He has played in 144 NFL games and has caught 857 passes for 10,491 receiving yards and hauled in 70 touchdown receptions. Why has he been traded already twice in his career? Diggs demands the ball, he is a attention seeker, and could easily become unhappy. He eventually wears out his welcome. The Vikings gladly traded Diggs to Buffalo back in 2020 for draft picks which included a number pick Minnesota used to cash in on Justin Jefferson, one of the league’s top talents. In Buffalo he helped in the development of one of the best Quarterbacks in the league, Josh Allen. The Bills could not get over the Chiefs hurdle and Diggs wore out his welcome with tantrums on the sideline. Tantrums in the locker room and those cryptic tweets on social media. The Bills traded him to Houston before the 2024 season kicked off. Diggs would only play in 8 games for the Texans before getting derailed by a season ending injury. He tore an ACL in his knee in week 8 versus the Colts. In 8 games Diggs caught 47 balls for 596 yards and three touchdown passes from second year man CJ Stroud. Part of the trade agreement was Diggs reworked his contract so he can become a free agent and now will be set to be another top drafted quarterback’s security blanket.

The New England Patriots have been mostly a disaster after Tom Brady left town. Bill Belichick was able to get the Patriots into the post-season once without Brady. The Evil Empire crumbled as Belichick was fired & they went with one of his guys to take over as head coach last year. Jerod Mayo took the job as head coach only to last one season as the Patriots took last place in the AFC East with a 4-13 record. The Patriots turned to Mike Vrabel as the head coach and stocked him up this off-season with some solid defensive players. Patriots added Harold Landry III, a former Titan linebacker, who played for Vrabel. The Patriots signed Robert Spillane, a linebacker and the Raiders lead tackler last season. They added former Eagle defensive tackle Milton Williams. They signed former Lion corner back Carlton Davis. On the offense they signed Morgan Moses, the former Jets offensive lineman. Then they added back up QB Joshua Dobbs to the mix. They did grab another wide receiver before Diggs, another X-Bill who had a nice season with Josh Allen last year in Mack Hollins who was a great red zone option for Buffalo. Josh McDaniels returns to New England as the offensive coordinator who has ties with Hollins from his Raiders days where he flopped as head coach. The Patriots have tried to sign other big name receivers but had no luck. With Diggs they may have overpaid because of his torn ACL.

Everyone thought, including me, that Stefon Diggs was going to sign with the Dallas Cowboys to play with his brother. Diggs’ brother Trevon plays on the other side of the ball as he is a corner back on the Cowboys defense. The Cowboys have been looking for another guy to line up on the other side of the field to CeeDee Lamb. Lamb is one of the top receivers in the NFL. Either Stefon did not want to play on a team where he is the number two or the Cowboys were expecting a family discount for his services. Stefon has a great work ethic and will probably be ready to go week 1 where most would return sometime after the year of the injury. Diggs, who took all his Bills stuff off social media, put all of it back not too long ago. Rumors had it Diggs wanted to return to the Bills. I could not see the Bills having a family reunion with the cray-cray that Diggs brings to the table. It did not seem like the Texans were knocking at his door for a return there.

The Patriots plan is the same thing the Bills did for Josh Allen. Stefon Diggs will be the number one guy for 2nd year man Drake Maye. The Patriots wide receiver room compiled up 1,723 receiving yards last year which was the fewest in the NFL. Adding Diggs and Mack Hollins with the guys the Patriots had last year like Kendrick Bourne, DeMario Douglas, Kayshon Boutte, and Ja’Lynn Baker can’t be a bad thing. Drake’s guys from last year he knows well and should get better with them in his second season. The guys from last year will get more single coverage as Diggs will get double teamed most of the games. Hollins will do his thing that he did for the Bills. Catch TD passes and convert some first downs. On paper this is a nice plan for New England. Will the Patriots be a playoff team next year? Losing is not a good thing for Diggs. Neither is not getting him the ball. Will Diggs be the same guy he was before the knee injury? This is a gamble for the Patriots who did overpay for his services. They need to. If Diggs works out and the Patriots do well, more players will follow and play for New England who are rebuilding the Death Star. You know Diggs will be eye balling the two games he plays against the Bills. His return to Buffalo will be major headlines. You know he wants the money & he wants the ball but taking down the Mafia would be his Superbowl. Last year the Texans did play the Bills and Houston won it. The Mafia could also get the last chuckle out of this when he becomes the selfish player and wears out the Patriots locker room. If he hurts Maye’s development, it will be a gut punch heard around the world. Diggs is a NFL hit man who plays on your team with double edged sword. When he brings that out, it’s too late. You want know why and how this happened. It always comes back to thinking how signing Stefon Diggs sounded like a great idea at the time. Then you are left treading water with egg on your face. Good luck Digging your way out of this Patriots fans.

THE EMPIRE’S NEXT MISSION: RECRUITING THE YOUTH AT UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA

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Maybe the greatest head coach in NFL history, is starting new chapter in his life. We already know about Bill Belichick’s 20 something year old girlfriend when he is 72 years old. That might tell you Belichick is ready for something new in life, a college job which is a younger man’s game. Belichick was served his walking papers after the 2023 season as the Empire dynasty officially came to an end as the New England Death Star came crashing down to Earth. In 2024 all the opening NFL jobs went to others instead of giving full control of their franchise to the evil master mind with a 400 page manifesto about the structure of the Empire running things. Now he will try to turn the men’s basketball power house into a football school seeking a similar dynasty like the Patriots went down and became the team that everyone despised. Belichick will get a five year deal to turn the Tarheels into a football power house.

The only thing Bill Belichick knows is the NFL. As a head coach he was the leader for 29 years with 24 of them in New England. Belichick has been a part of 8 Superbowl wins which six came from the Patriots and the other two when he was the assistant head coach of the New York Giants. He was the guy that handled the defense for those Bill Parcells teams. In the Giants’ Superbowl XXV win over the Bills, his team contained Jim Kelly’s high powered offense to only 19 points. That was the Bills wide right miss by Scott Norwood, kicker for the Bills, who sealed the deal for Belichick and the Giants. Belichick’s first head coaching job came in Cleveland where he managed 5 years with a record of 36-44 as he had no quarterback. That all changed in New England.

Bill Belichick may have gotten lucky drafting Tom Brady in the late rounds of the NFL draft from the University of Michigan. Things took off when the Patriots franchise Quarterback before Brady was Drew Bledsoe and when he got hurt that is when the dynasty started. Bledsoe would eventually get traded. Belichick would earn coach of the year honors in 2003, 2007, and 2010. His record in New England as the head coach after 24 seasons was 266-121. Without Tom Brady the last three seasons in New England Belichick was 29-28 which equals out to a .463 winning percentage. Without Brady, Belichick had a losing record in his head coaching career of 82-98 which includes the Browns. He finished his NFL career as a head coach with 333-178 record which includes post-season. He still holds the record as head coach with the most post-season victories of 31. His regular season record is 302-165 which he trails only Don Shula in NFL history who has the most victories all-time with 347. If Belichick was hired for another head coaching job in the NFL, he would have passed Shula.

Bill Belichick will replace a legendary head coach in college football history. Mack Brown was 73 years old and is not dating a 20 year old cheerleader. Brown had two stints at North Carolina. His first stint he coached the Tar Heels from 1988-1997 and had a record of 67-46 and led North Carolina to six bowl appearances. Last time the Tar Heels won the ACC you have to go back to 1980. Brown was then hired back in 2019 after taking 5 years off coaching and Tar Heels improved right away to a 7-6 record in the first year back. In 2022 he had North Carolina back in the ACC Championship which they lost. Brown has tallied up 288 career wins which ranks him number 8 all time in FBS coaching lists.

In the press conference welcoming Bill Belichick, the school has already unveiled their new head coach’s hoodie. The Hoodie was Belichick’s signature item he wore during the New England empire days. He said in the press conference, “I didn’t come here to leave.”

Bill Belichick is not using his new opportunity as a stepping stone back to the NFL. Belichick informed the press that his father coached in North Carolina back in the 1950’s. So you will see the old Belichick disciples start to gather. The only holdover Belichick is keeping is Freddie Kitchens of the UNC staff. Kitchens had no right to be a head coach for the Browns back in 2019 as he was a joke in the NFL. Belichick’s son coached the Huskies defense of Washington University so I’m sure he will joining the staff. It’s not like Belichick will have problems getting his coaching staff assembled. All on his coaching tree could not cut it by themselves in the NFL. You may see Josh Daniels calling the offense for the Tar Heels in 2025.

What can you expect from here and the future of the University of Carolina football program with Bill Belichick taking over? The college football job is a 365 days of the year commitment. Which is not going to bother Belichick who bleeds football 24/7 every day. Not sure how he will fit the 20 something year old squeeze into the new situation? When he was with the Patriots he had full control of the team which included the draft and General Manager duties on who to sign. I don’t see Bill and his sunshine personality doing well in these kids’ parents homes in a recruitment visit. Do young kids want to go through boot camp hell to play football for Belichick? Of course you can see recruits thinking if they can survive a 4 year ride to North Carolina under the scrutiny of Belichick, they could make it in the NFL. Belichick has only been out of the game for one season so he still knows what the youth are thinking, If not, the 20 something year old girl friend, besides walking his dog, could inform the old guy of what this generation is thinking. You feel like it will be Hitler youth the way old Bill runs this football program. His staff will be filled with guys that are his yes men. If Bill gets the recruits he wants and if they have talent, he will put them in the best position to win. Belichick could go up against any other head coach in College football on the simple X’s and O’s. I believe he will do better than what Deion Sanders has done at the University of Colorado. You know guys on this current football team at North Carolina are already transferring out because they know his program will be tough. This is not football Siberia, North Carolina. They have had two Quarterbacks drafted in the first round in the last ten seasons starting with Mitch Trubisky and last year’s Drake Maye. This experiment could go wrong if Belichick can’t get the type of guys he wants. This could be a team of hard working SOB’s giving opponents battles because they do the small things right and will not make mistakes. It seems like he needs the Ivy League style of players. To be the best and to be known like the UNC basketball program, Belichick will have to land a stud quarterback is the key. He found Tom Brady. He may get the quarterback because of what Tom Brady did. You could say Brady needed Bill as much as Bill needed Brady. Right now I feel a disturbance in the force and the Tar Heels are building themselves a weapon of mass destruction which will start in the ACC.