Patriots "are ready to trade"

Bill Belichick is ready to face the NFL trading deadline in about a week.

Of course, the Patriots are no strangers to the move by the deadline because they have made many moves over the years, including the mega-exchange that sent Jimmy Garoppolo to the San Francisco 49ers last year, as well as other projects such as sending linebackers. Jamie Collins at the Cleveland Browns in 2016 and acquisition of the Aqib Talib cornerback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2012.

The 2018 deadline will be uncertain, but the Patriots have various needs, and Bill Belichick said Monday that his team was ready to negotiate, but had issued the warning that you had to be two to the tango.

"As you know, an exchange is a two-way street, so you have to have a trading partner, but I would say in our case, probably the other 31 teams, probably excluding those from our division, that we're probably not I think they know we're ready to trade, "Belichick told Ordway, Merloni and Fauria, of WEEI." They have a player for whatever reason they want to trade, in all Honesty, we usually get a call because we are a team that negotiates.There are teams that do, others that do not do it.I do not say we will do a lot of exchanges, but if the situation was good, we would certainly consider it.We did our part, so I would say that most teams are heard if they have a player that arouses interest.

"Sometimes we initiate it according to all the circumstances. In general, we hear other people. Unless we identify something, we think they're not considering it, but if you put something on the table, maybe they would consider it. There are situations that could happen like this.

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One of New England's potential positions in the trade market is the back end. Although Sony Michel's knee injury is not too serious, this position is not exactly the deepest of the lineup, it only has Michel, James White and Kenjon Barner.

"We will look into this over the next few days, so when we start training for Buffalo, we will be ready to go," Belichick said. "We're going to look at our options and see what's the best thing to do, see how long we think Sony could be away and again, regardless of our other options."