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Bill Belichick is a very, very serious man. He’s well known for standing in front of the media and mumbling a bunch of things (sometimes the same thing over and over) while looking like he’d rather be anywhere else than in front of those folks.
He’s won lots of Super Bowls being super serious so we can’t fault him for his approach and his unwillingness to open up on just about anything regarding his team, because it has worked out pretty well for him.
But you know what? Bill Belichick is also the silliest coach in the NFL… when he wants to be. And that happens pretty often during the season, you just have to look for it.
The latest example of that came on Wednesday when Captain Hoodie started his press conference by going off on a 7-minute speech about the 2-4 Bears, who the Patriots face Monday night, and how basically they are a superbly talented football team that should be feared and admired by everyone who has ever watched just a few seconds of football.
He raved about their punter, their defense, their first-year coach. I’m surprised he didn’t take out a deep dish pizza and yell about how this team makes the 1985 Bears look like cowards.
If you’ve watched the Bears this year (including that stinker of a TNF game last week) then you know this team isn’t worthy of a 7-minute spiel about their greatness. They are not great. Far from it. Some might even say very far from it.
But not Belichick. He stood up there with the serious look on his face and made his serious points and tried to make everyone believe that he believed what he was saying when we all knew he didn’t at all.
This is what Belichick does all the time. He loves it. Whenever his team is facing a bad team he’ll spend time during the week waxing poetic about how an awful (enter bad team name here) has all the talent in the world and if the Patriots are not ready to face such generational greatness they will be doomed for the rest of time.
I mean, everyone on Twitter yesterday goofed on Belichick’s speech about the 2-4 Bears. Everyone knew exactly what he was doing and had a good laugh over it.
And that, right there, is why he’s the silliest coach in the NFL.
Quick hits: NFL Week 7 picks against the spread… Steph Curry hilariously wakes up his son… Eagles working on Christmas album… And more.
– The NFL is back and so are our picks against the spread.
– Steph Curry went nuts at home last night watching a former teammate hit a game-winner on TV and hilariously woke up his son with his loud screams.
– The Philadelphia Eagles are releasing a Christmas album and it sounds… pretty good!
– This angle of Yu Darvish’s ridiculous 82 mph slider shows you just how hard it is to hit a baseball.
