You know how the football fan knows the NFL’s springtime lull has officially begun? With the publishing of the first “R.I.P. New England Patriots?” column. Such reportage is nothing new, of course, with the earliest of vultures beginning to circle back in 2004, shortly after the final gun popped to end Super Bowl XXXVIII. Heck, this...

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