Bill Belichick managed with what he had when it came to winning six Super Bowl championships during his illustrious career with the New England Patriots.

Building the team through trades and the draft was more of Belichick’s forte. He drafted Richard Seymour, Tom Brady, Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman, got the most out of Troy Brown and Ty Law when he took the job and made the trade for Randy Moss and revitalized his career. 

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When the Patriots were active in free agency, they were able to sign guys like Cam Newton, Darrelle Revis, Rodney Harrison and Junior Seau. But as Belichick got further in his career, signing free agents became increasingly difficult. New head coach Jerod Mayo also learned that as he started as the team’s head coach, as they missed out on DeAndre Hopkins and Calvin Ridley.

Belichick chalked it up to Massachusetts’ high income tax.

"That’s Taxachusetts," Belichick said Monday in an appearance on "The Pat McAfee Show." "Virtually every player, even the practice squad, even the minimum players are pretty close to $1 million. Once you hit the $1 million threshold, you pay more state tax in Massachusetts.

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"Just another thing you’ve got to contend with in negotiations up there. It’s not like Tennessee or Florida or Nevada. Some of these teams have no state income tax. You get hit pretty hard on that with the agents."

Also not helping the Patriots’ luster is the poor seasons in the post-Brady era.

The team has only made the playoffs once and have started four quarterbacks since the start of the 2020 season and are likely to have a fifth starter, whether it is Drake Maye, Joe Milton or Jacoby Brissett, to start Week 1 this season.

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An arrest has been made in connection with a fire started in an Athens, Tennessee, church and police say they believe the suspect killed a woman inside before starting the blaze.

A police report obtained by WZTV states that surveillance footage captured Kyle Jay Hickox in the area several times before and after the historic church was burned to the ground earlier this month.

According to the report, the victim who was found dead in the church, Linda Buchanan, did not die from the fire but was killed by another person before the fire was ignited.

Hickox was taken into custody Friday and charged with second degree murder. Additional charges are pending.

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In the surveillance footage, Hickox is allegedly captured on Aug. 15 running across the property of the nearby Athens YMCA and onto the property of Tennessee Wesleyan University.

He entered a maintenance building at the college where a worker inside ordered him to leave. Hickox, the report said, responded that he "would get God's water" before exiting the building.

The maintenance worker told investigators he then observed Hickox running toward St. Mark AME Zion Church and enter through the back door.

About 10 minutes later, Hickox was allegedly seen in the footage running through the YMCA property toward the college's soccer field.

The suspect then removed his shirt and wrapped it around one of his hands. He also used a hose to spray his body off, surveillance footage showed.

Police executed a search warrant on Hickox's Athens home two days later and found clothing they believe he was wearing when the church was lit on fire.

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The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's Crime Lab revealed that blood on Hickox's left shoe matched Buchanan's blood.

Hickox was booked into the McMinn County Jail but has since been released.