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Ex-Patriots player tells Lamar Jackson he wouldn't want to play for Bill Belichick

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft dropped a little nugget of information off at the annual league meetings in Phoenix this week when insinuated his team could pursue Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson.

Kraft told reporters that rapper Meek Mill texted him Lamar Jackson wanted to play in New England but that the decision would ultimately fall to head coach Bill Belichick (who is also the team's general manager). Though seemingly innocuous, the quote intrinsically tied Jackson, who allegedly requested a trade on March 2 and is embroiled in a contract dispute with the Ravens, to the Patriots.