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Dion Lewis laughs off Patriots trash talk, but we’re not buying it

While some might say it’s perfectly normal and natural for a bitter employee to take a few parting shots at his or her former company on their way out the door after getting canned, Dion Lewis took it just a bit too far in 2018.

After toiling in relative obscurity as an injury-prone backup with the Eagles and then (briefly) the Browns and the Colts, Lewis resuscitated his NFL career with the Patriots in 2015. He was averaging a robust 4.8 yards per carry before a torn ACL robbed him of the second half of that season and then the first half of the 2016 season as well.