They are hoping Mohamed Sanu can provide some stability as they try to solidify their offense heading into a difficult part of their schedule.The Patriots traded a second-round draft pick in 2020 to the Atlanta Falcons for the eighth-year veteran Ed Oliver Jersey , the teams announced Tuesday.The trade came less than 24 hours after the Patriots blew out the New York Jets 33-0.“See you soon,” quarterback Tom Brady tweeted to his newest receiver.For New England, Sanu represents its latest attempt to give Brady another versatile receiver to throw to following the short-lived tenure of Antonio Brown.The 30-year-old Sanu has 33 receptions for 313 yards, but only one touchdown so far this season. His opportunities to be more involved will almost certainly increase as he heads to the reigning Super Bowl champion Patriots (7-0) and to an offense that leads the league in scoring at nearly 32 points a game.He had a career-high 67 catches for the Falcons in 2017 and followed up with 66 catches for a career-best 838 yards last season.Sanu tweeted his excitement at joining the Patriots and thanked the Falcons organization, including owner Arthur Blank, general manager Thomas Dimitroff and coach Dan Quinn.“I appreciate everything the organization has done for my family & I,” Sanu wrote on Twitter. “Mr. Blank, TD, Coach Q, & everyone through the organization, I am forever grateful for the opportunity. To my Teammates & fan y’all know how I feel about y’all love y’all to death. #ThankYou.”Sanu joins a receiving group that includes Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman, Josh Gordon, Phillip Dorsett, Jakobi Meyers and Gunner Olszewski. The Patriots also have N’Keal Harry, a first-round pick in this year’s draft who went on injured reserve after hurting an ankle during training camp. He is eligible to return to the roster in Week 9.But with Gordon currently recovering from ankle and knee injuries the offense needs help sooner rather than later. New England is preparing for a challenging second half of its schedule that includes matchups with Baltimore http://www.billsauthorizedshops.com/aut … ord-jersey , Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston and Kansas City.Sanu won’t provide the deep threat of Gordon or Brown, but he has proven to be a reliable option as a slot receiver. That will help take the pressure off Edelman, whom Brady has relied on heavily this season in third-down situations.Sanu’s presence also will only benefit young receivers such as Meyers, a promising rookie who had a season-high five catches for 47 yards against the Jets.For the Falcons, the move is a signal they are already looking to the future just seven weeks into the season. Atlanta (1-6) is mired in a five-game losing streak and off to its worst start since 2007.Even before the trade, Sanu seemed unlikely to remain with the Falcons beyond this season. He has one year left on his contract, but the Falcons are facing some tough salary cap decisions and already have Julio Jones and Calvin Ridley to anchor the receiving group. TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — New regime, same old mission for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.Bruce Arians is the latest coach taking a stab at making the Bucs relevant again.The former Arizona Cardinals coach came out of retirement in January to replace Dirk Koetter, who was fired after another losing season extended the club’s playoff drought to 11 consecutive seasons.And while Arians insists the Bucs are not in a rebuilding mode, it sure seems that way heading into yet another draft where Tampa Bay will continue an ongoing effort to fill holes in a leaky defense.General manager Jason Licht is working with a third head coach in six years and is banking on the bond he developed with Arians while they were both in Arizona will help him finally get it right with the Bucs.“I have a great relationship with Bruce. I have a good feel for him, what he likes. We’ve had many, many meetings together Devin Singletary Jersey , they’ve all been great, very productive,” Licht said. “It’s an open door, no walls between the scouting and the coaching, which is what we had in Arizona and we’ve had here too.”Mistakes in free agency and recent drafts contributed to a tight salary cap situation that’s placed limits on how much the Bucs could spend to fix one of the league’s worst defenses this offseason.Over the past three drafts alone, they’ve used a first-round pick and a pair of No. 2s on cornerbacks who’ve yet to make compelling cases that they can be long-term solutions or even bona fide starters.Jason Pierre-Paul, a pre-draft trade acquisition a year ago, became the first Tampa Bay player to have at least 10 sacks in a season since Simeon Rice in 2005, yet bolstering an inconsistent pass rush remains a priority a year after Licht used a first-round pick and invested heavily in free agency to overhaul the defensive line around veteran tackle Gerald McCoy.Licht said the toughest part of the evaluation process for the draft is not gauging a prospect’s talent.“It’s what the player is all about and how willing he is to put in the work, what kind of a teammate he’s going to be. So you can kind of separate the guys that don’t have the talent to make it. The guys that do have talent, you rank them into how talented they are, but then the tough part is reading the player,” the GM said.“Bruce doesn’t live by a lot of mottos. … But one thing he does adhere to that I took from him in Arizona is, ‘trust, loyalty http://www.billsauthorizedshops.com/aut … nox-jersey , respect.’ You’ve got to have players that trust each other, trust the coaches, are loyal to everybody and respect everybody,” Licht added. “So if you can get a talented guy that you know hits on all three of those things, you have a really good chance.”Barring a trade, the Bucs hold the fifth overall selection. In addition to improving the pass rush and secondary, they likely will seek help for the offensive line and, possibly, at running back in later rounds.“We have at least five players that we think — at least five — that if we stay in our spot that we’d be very happy with,” Arians said.TRADE BAIT?McCoy, a six-time Pro Bowl selection, is due to earn $13 million next season, his 10th with the Bucs. Both Arians and Licht have shied away from talking specifics about how the defensive tackle fits into the plan for 2019, including whether he could be traded on or before the opening day of the draft.“That’s hypothetical,” Licht said. “Right now Brian Burns Jersey , we are focused on the draft.”RATING THE CLASSWhile Licht expects to find help regardless of whether the Bucs stand pat at No. 5 or wind up trading down in the draft order, the GM said there is a clear drop-off in the level of talent available after a certain point.“I would say after a certain number — which I won’t give — then they kind of all are together,” Licht said. “It’s tougher than most years to really rank the let’s just say top 50 players, because of that.”Staying put could mean taking one of the defensive studs up front — Quinnen Williams of Alabama, Ed Oliver of Houston, Montez Sweat of Mississippi State — or linebacker Josh Allen of Kentucky.CUPBOARD NOT BAREDespite going 5-11 and missing the playoffs again ast season, Licht feels entering the draft that Tampa Bay’s roster is more than talented than it was this time a year ago.“We think we have a talented team, but we know that we have some pieces that we need to add, too,” the GM said. “We are not a finished product. We have the draft coming up, we have moves that we can make all the way up through training camp.”