FOXBORO, Mass. -- The Patriots' turnaround over the last two decades has been so impressive that it's left even its most prominent contributors in awe. "There is no word to use except for 'impressive,'" former linebacker Tedy Bruschi said. New England was a bottom-of-the-rung franchise in the early 1990s that got a much-needed spark in 1993 when it hired Bill Parcells as the head coach and selected quarterback Drew Bledsoe with the top pick in the draft. Then, Robert Kraft bought the team a year later and gave the organization the commitment it needed to find some legitimacy. In the...
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