Bill Belichick normally doesn’t watch Monday Night football games, he told reporters during a press conference on Thursday.
But, with the Patriots set to play the Bills on a short week, he happened to have the game on.
Belichick watched Buffalo safety Damar Hamlin leave the field on an ambulance after being resuscitated following an episode of cardiac arrest.
The scene brought back memories from 1996, when Belichick was an assistant with the New York Jets. In the final game of the regular season, Lions linebacker Reggie Brown was injured on what Belichick recalled as “kind of a normal play.