The trade deadline has come and gone, and the Patriots did not make any splashy deals.

New England made calls and looked into deals, coach Mike Vrabel said, but ultimately decided to stand pat.

According to Boston Sports Journal’s Mike Giardi, there was one team in particular that wanted to avoid deals with the Patriots.

“I was also told there has been some conversation league-wide that Tennessee might be unwilling to make deals with New England,” Giardi wrote. “Because the owner, Amy Adams Strunk, continues to think too much about how things ended with Vrabel and is not inclined to help his new team.”

Tennessee fired Vrabel after the 2023 season and the Ohio native wound up spending a year with the Cleveland Browns as a consultant before the Patriots hired him as head coach.

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