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Bill Belichick is Ferdinand the Bull, or Why the Patriots are striking now

In 1936, American author Munro Leaf wrote The Story of Ferdinand. The title character, a young bull living in the Spanish countryside, was different from the other bulls: he didn’t join the frenzy when the recruiters for the bullfight in Madrid came to the farm and instead kept sitting under a cork tree watching the spectacle from afar. Ferdinand kept minding his own business while the rest was competing for attention.

Bill Belichick is Ferdinand.

The story is the same every year: the rest of the NFL is scrambling to get the biggest names to enter the open market, while Belichick and his New England Patriots are sitting back.