Don’t even mention the word ‘analytics’ around Bill Belichick

New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is a great many things, but apparently, an analytics aficionado is not one of them.

If you want to talk analytics, you’d better talk to Ernie Adams.

(Not that Bill Belichick will probably let you, though.)

Adams, the team’s mysterious football research director, has been the subject of all sorts of intrigue and theorizing since his importance to Belichick and to the New England Patriots became a matter of public record. It’s still not exactly known what he does on a day-to-day basis for his employer, but he’s probably the person you’d want to talk to when discussing New England’s use or non-use of analytics in their operations.

Head coach and…