“I feel the need, the need for speed.”

The New England Patriots spent years relating to that need but could never quite figure out how to satisfy it — though it wasn’t for a lack of trying.

Tyquan Thornton, Pierre Strong, Aaron Dobson and Chad Jackson are some of the fastest human beings to ever step on a football field, but couldn’t translate their speed into success once they set up shop at One Patriot Place.

Why?

I don’t think anyone can provide an adequate answer to that question, though equal blame can be placed on each individual player as well as the system in which they were asked to transform — especially since that system historically does just fine without them.

The Patriots weren’t going to give up on their desire to add an explosive element, though, and finally started se

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