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There's a method behind Bill Belichick's injury non-answers

“Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

-- Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. -- Bill Belichick was in a chipper mood when he arrived at the podium on Wednesday. No, really, he was. He was chatty, self-deprecating and enlightening (if X's and O's are your thing). He was smiling -- well, a couple of times -- and carrying on like a man at the top of his profession, which he is. Just then ...

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