BOCA RATON, Fla. — Bill Belichick sat at a round table on the edge of a tight rectangular ballroom at the Boca Raton Resort and took the circuitous route around exactly 100 questions yesterday morning.
The Patriots coach sipped ice water out of a 14-ounce plastic cup during his 47-minute session, which he kicked off by rolling up the sleeves on his baby blue Johns Hopkins men’s lacrosse hoodie that he wore in support of ailing coach Dave Pietramala. Belichick then took out his frustration on a table’s worth of recorders and delivered a 340-word opening statement that primarily paid tribute to retiring linebacker Jerod Mayo.