LAS VEGAS -- Bill Belichick has helped make the phrase "on to [Team X]" a nationally-recognized catchphrase of sorts. He typically, publicly, wants to look ahead. Dwelling on something that's already happened, publicly, appears to have little value to him. Typically.
That's why his opening remarks Friday night at a press conference following the Patriots' preseason loss to the Raiders seemed atypical.
On the one hand, he admitted his team's performance in its exhibition game was not up to standard. On the other, he harkened back to what he saw as good joint practices with the Raiders and posited that perhaps his team had used up its best moments on the practice fields in Henderson, Nev.