The New England Patriots have traded linebacker Jamie Collins to the Cleveland Browns for a draft pick.

The trade is for a third-round compensatory pick if the Browns are awarded one. If the Browns don't get that pick from the league, the trade is for a fourth-round pick, the source said.

"In the end, we did what we thought was best for the football team. There are a lot of things to take into consideration. I'm sure we could bring up a lot of points to talk about, but in the end, that's really the bottom line," Bill Belichick said on sports radio WEEI when asked about the trade.

Collins' four-year rookie contract will expire after the season, and he was at one point asking for what one league source described to ESPN's Adam Schefter as "Von Miller money."

Ben Roethlisberger had never asked another NFL player for his jersey until the Pittsburgh Steelers played the New England Patriots last Sunday.

Roethlisberger, who was injured and didn't play in the loss, approached Tom Brady before the game and made the request.

"I've never done this before but I would love to get a jersey," Roethlisberger said to Brady.

"Sure, let's do it," Brady answered.

Bill Belichick will not try to use tablets any longer.

Microsoft paid $400 million to become the NFL's official tablet provider.

“As you probably noticed, I’m done with the tablets,” Belichick said. “They’re just too undependable for me. I’m going to stick with pictures, which several of our other coaches do, as well, because there just isn’t enough consistency in the performance of the tablets. I just can’t take it anymore.”

Belichick went on a five-minute rant about the tablets, saying they don’t work properly when he needs them to.

“For me, personally, it’s a personal decision, I’m done with the tablets,” he said. “I’ll use the paper pictures from here on, because I just have given it my best shot. I’ve tried to work through the process. But it just doesn’t work for me, and that’s because there’s no consistency to it.”

The New England Patriots will release guard Jonathan Cooper.

Cooper, who was the 7th overall pick in the 2013 NFL Draft, lost his starting job with a foot injury a few day into training camp.

Cooper had been acquired as part of the Patriots' March trade with the Arizona Cardinals in which New England swapped defensive end Chandler Jones for Cooper and a second-round draft choice.

Cooper had been working with the first unit at right guard through spring practices and into the third day of training camp, when a foot injury sidelined him. 

Tom Brady's friend and former Michigan teammate, Aaron Shea, believes he will come back from his four-game suspension with a vengeance.

The Patriots went 3-1 without Brady.

"I think Deflategate hurt Tommy a lot more than he'll let anyone know," Shea said. "We barely talked about the details other than a lot of f-bombs going back and forth. But now you've pissed off the GOAT [greatest of all time]. I grew up in Illinois, and if you got under Michael Jordan's skin, he would score 50 or 60 on you. This is only going to make Tom better. It's going to hurt the other 31 teams because Tom is healthy, he didn't have to take any hits the first four games, and now he's angry.

"I want him to stick it to Roger Goodell so bad. At the end of the year, I want him up there holding that Lombardi Trophy and taking it from Roger Goodell. Then I'd tell Tom, 'That's it, man, you couldn't go out any better than that.' It's just that every year he adds two seasons to how long he wants to play. He may play until he's 50."

Terrelle Pryor, who has emerged as the top playmaker for the Cleveland Browns this season, had a workout with the New England Patriots last season.

The quarterback-turned-receiver will face New England with Tom Brady returning this weekend.

I really thought I was going to be a Patriot," Pryor said. "I know Bill Belichick really liked me. I had a great workout for them and everything went really well. I really thought he was going to sign me."

Pryor called his visit last autumn to New England "phenomenal," but felt that Belichick wasn't ready to take the leap "because he just wasn't sure my hamstring was 100 percent healed."

Rob Gronkowski has just one catch for 11 yards in two games since returning from a hamstring injury in Week 3.

Gronkowski's hamstring remains an issue, according to a source.

"How are you guys not paying more attention? This guy is not right," the source said. "That hamstring has not come along like they thought it was going to."

The New England Patriots have primarily used Gronkowski as a blocker, while limiting his route trees to areas near the line of scrimmage.

Gronkowski conceded as much on Wednesday, telling reporters the hamstring is "obviously" holding him back.

A series of interview with coaches, players and other associates about Bill Belichick attempted to dig deep into how he operates and his psychology.

"Bill lived this game his whole life," said Bill Parcells. "Growing up with football in your life, that experience as a young man at the dinner table, is invaluable. He was educated to the nuances of the sport at a very young age. By the time he got his first job, he already had experience just from living it with his dad. I think that's where the foundation was."

"Bill likes creating the image of an outlaw, the tough guy," said a former NFL head coach. "I think he really relishes it. But who is he really? He was kind of a geeky kid. Not that athletic. A failed football player."

"His dad would take Bill to work when Bill was 9 or 10," said Phil Savage. "Things would get busy and Bill would end up in a room or a closet by himself with a projector and a stack of film, and it's like, 'Son, take these tapes and tell me how many times they ran split back.' And Bill just devoured it. He always saw video and film and the mental side of the game as the great equalizer for him."

Tom Brady returned to practice on Monday for the first time since his suspension began ahead of Week 1.

"It was great to be back in the building. It was certainly great to be back to work," Brady said during his weekly interview on Westwood One. "It's been a long four weeks for me, but I'm excited to get started on my preparation for Cleveland. I'm anxious for the week ahead. I want to get back out on the practice field. This is what I love to do and now I have an opportunity to do it."

The Patriots went 3-1 without Brady.

"I'm going to take it day to day. I haven't played in four weeks," Brady told host Jim Gray, when asked his expectations upon his return. "My teammates have been working their butts off and that's what they expect of me. I'll take the days as they come [and] I'll certainly need the practices to try to get on the [same] page as all the guys who have been practicing the last four weeks. But I'm really looking forward to it."