When New England traveled to Indianapolis in mid-November, receiver as their best in 14 years of the rivalry.With of on Monday, the have now parted ways with all three starting cornerbacks from XLIX, leaving the position as the biggest question mark on the roster.So what's behind the organization's decision Mike Quick Jersey to move on from , and Arrington?Analysis of strategy can be tricky because Bill Belichick is not only so circumspect but also tends to be a step ahead of league-thinking.As is often the case in profe sional sports, though, the answer to our question is money.Revis' contract wasn't meant to last more than one season. The Pats might have briefly considered picking up his that would have counted $25 million against the cap, but it was .The team also Wendell Smallwood Jersey after the 2011 er was whistled for the second-most penalties among NFL cornerbacks.Arrington was scheduled to earn $3 million and account for $4.625 million on the salary cap, high figures for a niche player who took the field on just 40.9 percent of defensive snaps last season. Although Arrington stifled in a pair of meetings with the , he was also benched in the second half of the .Perhaps it's no coincidence that Tyrion Davis-price Jersey Arrington was jettisoned just days after the took a flier on seventh-round pick , a graded by Pro Football Focus as a .With the three veterans out of the picture, the are left with hero , castoff and 2013 third-rounder -- also benched versus the -- competing for the two outside jobs.That would leave Roberts, former corner and second-round safety as candidates to man the slot behind a loaded front seven.For much of Belichick's New England tenure A.j. Brown Jersey , he's made do with patchwork offensive and defensive backfields. That appears to be the case again this year, with the frontrunner to open the season as the starting running back in lieu of a suspended .The tend to use September and early October to tinker with different combinations before finding their identity by midseason.Just as Blount Brett Toth Jersey didn't materialize as a backfield savior until November, the same could hold true with the cornerback experiments in 2015.The latest Podcast and discu ses the current state of all 16 NFC teams. Find more content on .*