New England Patriots: Highlighting a blueprint for winning success in 2020

The New England Patriots will look like a new team in 2020, here is a blueprint for winning  in their first season since 2001 without Tom Brady.

As the 2020 NFL Draft approaches, it’s time to forego all the rumors and smoke surrounding the New England Patriots and lay out a plan of how the reigning AFC East champs can actually win in 2020.

A team in obvious transition, the Patriots are now bereft of their greatest asset, so how can they fashion a new team and especially a new offense to win in 2020?

To win in 2020, assuming that they actually will be trying to win and not try to win the “race to the bottom” to secure the draft rights to Trevor Lawrence, the Clemson wonder quarterback, how must the Patriots proceed the rest of the offseason?

It ain’t going to be easy. But with Bill Belichick still at the helm, it can be done. Here’s how.

The Patriots so far in the free agency phase of offseason team-building have not earned good grades, which is highlighted in a previous  article.

So far this offseason has been largely a dud. Boring and frankly rather inconsequential. Such a performance leaves observers justifiably wondering if they are on the way “to the tank” to try to glean the NFL’s No. 1 draft pick in 2021. I can’t blame them at all.

But there is a possible plan still available to New England even at this stage of the offseason.

There remains the draft, undrafted free agency (a sometime really bright spot for the personnel operation), trades and signing lower-cost free agents who are later released by their teams.

Opportunity still exists. Here’s what they have to do.