Bill Belichick always is tight-lipped with the media, but he apparently is more transparent with his Patriots players.
In a recent exclusive interview with ESPN’s Mike Reiss, Uche shed light on the conversation he had with Belichick around the NFL trade deadline. The fourth-year linebacker was viewed as the most likely candidate to be shipped out of Foxboro, Mass. by Oct. 31, but the Patriots elected to hang onto Uche.
“It was an interesting situation,” Uche told Reiss. “It was the first time I really had some open, transparent dialogue with Bill.