Bill Belichick is about as famous for his abrasive, abbreviated news conferences as he is for the six Super Bowls he has won coaching the New England Patriots.
Ask Belichick a question he doesn’t want to answer, or he deems ill-informed, and you get a predictable result.
Mumbles. Pauses. Disdain. Exasperation.
Ask him about something that intrigues him though, say proper strategic use of downfield blocking or the history of Navy football, and he’ll go on and on, often in fascinating ways.
This week, Belichick has been quite expansive, repeatedly, on a topic he certainly doesn’t want to discuss: the fact that a Patriots in-house production crew, in Cleveland to do a story on the duties of an advance scout, filmed game action and the sideline of the Pats’ opponent this Sunday, Cincinnati.