Since Trent Dilfer, assessing the Patriots after an infamous 41-14 loss to the Chiefs in 2014, asserted on ESPN that, “They’re not good anymore,” he’s seen New England make four of the last five Super Bowls.
Needless to say, the former quarterback – then an ESPN commentator – has endured more than a few reminders of how wrong his prognostication was. Yet only once was he directly confronted about the comment by a member of the Patriots.
As Dilfer explained in a Thursday morning interview on WEEI’s “Mut & Callahan,” Bill Belichick’s son, Steve – the Patriots’ safeties coach – approached him following New England’s victory in Super Bowl LI (more than two years after Dilfer’s comment).