Despite two-plus decades of unprecedented success, how Bill Belichick will ultimately be remembered in New England should be for how he turned this Patriots franchise around from a middle-of-the-road team to a perennial contender.
Or at least that’s how he should be remembered. Locally in sports radio, it’s a different story.
Tuesday saw quite the showdown between 98.5 The Sports Hub’s Michael Felger and former Belichick staffer and NFL GM Michael Lombardi, with the two battling it out over the narrative surrounding Belichick, who the team parted ways with this past offseason.
Felger started off the interview quoting a Tweet, believing it to be from former Patriots running back Patrick Pass (it wasn’t), who wrote, “Imagine having a coach that brought you six championships in 18 years and were always close to the top the other years and letting Michael Felger convince you he was actually bad?