The best laid plans of NFL head coaches and GMs often go awry. Adapting to ever-changing circumstances often differentiates the winners from the losers.

In the case of the 2025 New England Patriots, there is at least one concrete example of how the front office was able to think on the fly after Tee Higgins suddenly became unavailable this past March.

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"Mike Vrabel uses this word a lot: Pivot," Breer said on Patriots Pregame Live before New England played Higgins and the Bengals. "The Patriots' pivot in this case was not to [Chris] Godwin or to [Stefon] Diggs, it was actually to Milton Williams. And with the money that they freed up -- that they would have perhaps given to Tee Higgins -- they went the extra mil

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