Even Matthew Slater couldn’t believe what Bill Belichick told him before he walked to midfield for the coin toss before overtime on Sunday.
“Before we went out for the toss, Coach told us if we won the toss that we wanted to kick off,” the Patriots special teams captain said following the Jets stunning 26-20 overtime win.
“I double-checked and he was looking at me like ‘Are you concussed?’ ” Slater said. “Obviously, as a player, you ask three or four times just to double check because you want to make sure you get it right.