Week 4 was about a long-term personal relationship for the Patriots.
Week 5, evidently, will be about a professional one.
New England people have long been fond of positioning days like this one as being about “business”, and in those terms, over the last year-and-a-half, the team just met its match in Stephon Gilmore, its best player in the still-relatively-new post-Brady era. Gilmore never took his fight public. He never showed outward rebellion the way other players in these sorts of spots do. He leaked out his feelings through his teammates or camp.
This, to Gilmore, was always about business, and he approached it that way, start to finish.