IMO the Pats are show casing him for a trade with the Texans now that they have Garoppolo. In which if it does happen the Pats will absolutely hose down the Texans for a QB who will probably end up similar to how Cassel did outside of BB's offense.
I wouldn't trust dealing with the Pats for much of anything. To me it seems as if almost every time a player either leaves them for FA or is traded, that player isn't near the player they were in NE. The Pats a very good at developing their players in their systems, but it seems like once they leave there, things seem to go downhill. Maybe it just seems that way, but I do think NE is trying to sucker the Texans into trading for kid that I don't think is a good QB outside of NE's system, & if he were the Pats wouldn't have taken Garoppolo in the first place. I think the Pats are trying to hose somebody for a draft pick now that they've used up most, if not all, of those extra early draft picks they've had over the past few years.