Try to contain your shock at Bill Belichick’s answer to a question Monday morning about when he’ll officially name the Patriots’ Week 1 starter at quarterback:
“What we’re going to do is what we feel is best for our football team, and that’s what it will be.”
Groundbreaking stuff.
Of course, there’s little reason to expect Belichick would do anything differently with two weeks to go before the Patriots kick off their regular season against the Miami Dolphins. Whether he admits it or not, he’d been milking the uncertainty around the competition between Cam Newton and Mac Jones as much as possible heading into his team’s 2021 campaign.