Bill Belichick surprising everyone with personality in media pivot: ‘Never in a million years’
NY Post
The world gets turned upside down every now and then. You realize that the apocalypse is near when “We’re on to Cincinnati” becomes “We’re on to television.”
What’s next, a “Boom!?” from Bill Belichick, or a turducken play-by-play on Thanksgiving? A telestrator perhaps?
There have been a number of former NFL coaches who were always good bets to transition to television: first and foremost John Madden, Mike Ditka, Bill Parcells, Herm Edwards, Rex Ryan …
But Bill Belichick?
And yet there he is — chopping it up on the “ManningCast,” and with Pat McAfee, on “Inside the NFL,” breaking down the game on “The Breakdown” with Peyton Manning — biding time before returning to the sidelines to try to break Don Shula’s record for career coaching wins.
And guess what: Liberated from the paranoia over revealing even the most minute competitive disadvantage, the guy is entertaining and informative talking shop.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.