 A lot of times when we judge teams heading into a season we talk about their off-season obviously because that comes before the season and We either judge a team and say they had the best off-season or we can judge a team and say they had one of the worst off-seasons They of course are the teams that are right in the middle, but Have we ever had a team where they have both one of the best and worst off-seasons all at the same time? And the reason that I asked that is because I feel like that's exactly what the Patriots are going through right now They of course went through everything with Tom Brady and it was like oh is he gonna stay is he gonna leave and it actually Didn't even seem real like he was gonna leave. I remember heading into it. I was thinking oh, yeah They're gonna come up with something, but they didn't and Tom Brady ended up leaving in heading to Tampa Bay so then They they also had ended up trading the way grunkowski He came out of retirement to be traded to Tampa Bay so he could go be with Tom Brady and it was just like well Those are some big blows for the Patriots Their defense remained intact for the most part. They did lose a Nikovic to to the Dolphins They they lost somebody else to to the dolphins. I feel like but anyway So they lost quite a few pieces. Of course, they went through the draft and whatnot But it was looking like most of an offense like it was gonna be pretty rough It was gonna be very rough But then all of a sudden they got Cam Newton And it was like okay, that was a big turn around. It's like wait a minute. Don't count the Patriots out yet And they got him for super cheap Former NFL MVP just came new and man they got him for super cheap So they get Cam Newton things are looking on the up and up again, you know and then When the whole opt-out thing happened they start losing guys left and right They start losing them left and right and again the most notable names Patrick Chung Dante how the high tower Marcus Cannon And they lost they lost more too But then this the rookie Dustin Woodard Seventh round draft pick he just decides he wants to retire and Initially when this came across my phone, I was thinking, okay I guess maybe because of the hope maybe he was thinking about like debating opting out And maybe he was just debating it for so long. He may have come to a conclusion before like, okay You know what? I'm gonna play this season and then he may have come to the conclusion. You'd be like, you know what? No, I ain't gonna do it. So then instead of just instead of deciding to Was trying to opt out went because it's obviously too late. He decided, you know what? I'm gonna just retire for now. I'm just I'll come back but He's retiring and they said it's not related to the whole pandemic. They said I ain't got nothing to do with it with the virus and I'm like wow Cuz this and it that's just it's just Patriots offseason in a nutshell man Because it you just never know what's gonna you just don't know what's gonna happen next and it seems like it's always something next You don't know where it's gonna come from. You don't know who don't know who is gonna come from But you know something is still coming something is still on the way But for whatever reason he decided to retire maybe it's because of health reasons. Maybe like, you know what I'm done Putting my body through this. I'm straight. I'm good. I don't know Maybe it's something personal. Maybe it's something with family. I don't know but hey kudos to him for doing it now rather than Letting it linger and hey, maybe he may take a couple days a couple weeks a couple months even a couple years And he may decide, you know what? Hey, you know what? Let me let me try to run it back But maybe by a couple years it might be too late, especially with him being a seventh round pick But hey, you got to respect his decision He obviously has other plans in mind. He got other stuff stored up for him. So he said football ain't it right now so hey Can't be mad at it man Can't be mad at it. He made a decision for him and hey, that's what it is. So Just like Patriots seventh round pick is now with the NFL. I'm out