FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Scott Zolak was joking around with a video crew at Gillette Stadium one morning last week when Bill Belichick walked in.
Immediately, they snapped to their posts, and work began on the weekly video program for the Patriots’ website. In the show, Belichick, the team’s frequently dour coach, cheerfully takes questions from Zolak, and the two break down recent plays using a device they call the Belistrator.
The program can be fascinating, mostly for the insight into the mind of a football genius like Belichick, but also because he has chosen to share them with Zolak, a perpetually gregarious, willfully goofy former backup quarterback who started only seven games in seven seasons with the Patriots.