For someone perceived as stubborn, it’s interesting how one of Bill Belichick’s strengths as a talent evaluator is a willingness to admit a mistake and cut his losses.
Actually cut them. From the roster, I mean. Belichick has absolutely no issue dumping a high draft pick or a pricey free agent if he’s not, as the saying goes, doing his job.
Belichick’s depth chart is a meritocracy, and has been going back to his early seasons here, when that skinny sixth-round quarterback — right, the one taken three rounds after Giovanni Carmazzi — began outshining the $103 million incumbent, Drew Bledsoe, in practice.