It’s like that old saying “A woman will forgive you but, she’ll never forget about it. Whereas a man will never forgive you but, he’ll forget about it.”
When our cat got skunk-sprayed I got a 5 gallon bucket, filled it with warm water, added some dish soap and a tablespoon of hydrogen peroxide then dropped the cat into my fishing net, gave it a spin to hold him in, and gave him several good dunkings in the bucket. After dumping him out of the net and giving him a good toweling he was as good as new except instead being black he was a dark chocolate color after the peroxide had bleached him a bit. Best of all no scratches!
That’s the Patriots in a nutshell the last few years.