Deion Branch only came back to the Patriots a couple weeks ago, but he's already making his future plans well known. On Thursday, Branch made his intentions well-known.
↵↵↵"The Patriots were the team that drafted me and I want to retire a Patriot,'' Branch said today in the Patriots' locker room.
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Branch, 31, agreed to renegotiate the final year of his six-year deal when he came over to New England from Seattle in a trade. The move reduced his 2011 base from $5.95 million to $2.2 million.