"I'm under contract, do what I always do, which is every day I come in work as hard as I can to work the team in whatever way I can. So, that's what I'm going to continue to do," he told reporters during his end-of-season media availability on Monday. "End-of-the-year process, I don't think, will be fundamentally any different from the standpoint of how it's done. The decisions, that's a whole other conversation."
His fingerprints, after all, are all over the organization. Given that he led the Patriots' football operations on both the coaching and personnel side for almost a quarter century, either removing him or altering his responsibilities would create a massive trickle-down effect from the coaching staff, to the front office, to the pro and college scouting departments.
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