Bill Belichick’s strategy? Business as usual until further notice originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The takeaway from Bill Belichick’s day-after press conference? Business as usual until Bill’s told otherwise.
“I’m going to do everything I can every day to do the best to help our football team,” Belichick said in an early-morning Zoom call. “That’s what I’ve always done. It’s never been any different for me in my career. I learned that lesson from my dad growing up. You work for the team you’re working for and do the best you can for it until somebody tells you different.”
Belichick could be told different as soon as Monday. But it doesn’t sound like he’ll be the one to bring it up by asking, “Are we done here?”
Somebody’s going to have to tell Bill Belichick to stop showing up.
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After noting that he’s “under contract,” Belichick said that after meeting with players and putting a bow on administrative things, they’ll start “putting the pieces back together in terms of setting things up to go through a good, detailed analysis and to kind of start a reconstruction, if you will.”
If you’re scoring at home, this is the first time in 24 years Belichick’s clued anyone in on his contract status directly. Though a nugget dropped when the Patriots fell to 1-5 in October that Belichick was locked up for the next “several years,” we soon learned that he’s up after the 2024 season.
It’s also the second time this year and third time since 2020 he’s talked about starting over. The first came when he talked about the cap reset in the first year post-Brady after going “all-in.” After the team’s 34-0 loss to the Saints, Belichick said the team would “start all over.”
They went 3-8 through Sunday. On Monday, Belichick said the team would begin the “reconstruction” process.
It wasn’t a threat that he’d have…
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Publish date : 2024-01-08 17:27:40
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