FOXBOROUGH - On the awkward meter, seeing both Kyle Dugger and Anfernee Jennings in the Patriots locker room Wednesday registered a ten.

The Patriots had worked the phones, trying to trade both players. Swap talk involving those two was in the news for days, first courtesy of the Boston Herald’s Andrew Callahan.

Dugger, who was coming off ankle surgery, played late into preseason games with the scrubs. It was the same for Jennings, which is never a good sign.

Dugger, a veteran safety, looked old and slow. Jennings, meanwhile, wasn’t a scheme fit at linebacker.

So the writing was on the wall.

And yet, they’re still here pretending like none of that ever happened. They’re here, acting like it wasn’t a big deal that the Patriots no longer wanted them.

“Obviously, people had made that

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