Bill Belichick Remembers Travis Roy

Head coach of the New England Patriots Bill Belichick remembered Travis Roy for his amazing inspiration. The Patriots are not looking very good so far this season With the COVID situation hitting them so hard, it has been hard for them to get back on track much at all. But Belichick did make it sound like they were working on a solution.

“Today’s an important day in our preparation for the Broncos,” Belichick said. “We’ve had several days now of virtual meetings between the staff members and from the staff to the players. We’ve been able to cover a lot of things, but we haven’t spent any time together, so today’s our opportunity to do that. We look forward to that. One thing that we’ve learned this year repeatedly has been we have to be ready to adjust and adapt to changes and modifications and the way we do things and, in some cases, decisions that really come down to a very short amount of time that we have to be ready to adjust to.”

“So we’re certainly taking things day by day — probably hour by hour would be more accurate. We’ll just see how we progress and then as we find out more on our end, or if there are other things externally that we can’t control that, then we’ll deal with those as they come. That’s the way it’s been all year. I think our team and our players have done a good job of handling those adjustments, and we’ll continue to do that.”

Bill Belichick Remembers Travis Roy

But more important than any of that is the lasting impact of Travis Roy. Take a look at what Belichick had to say about this recently.

“First of all just on behalf of the team, pass along our condolences to Travis Roy’s family,” Belichick said, via the Patriots. “He’s been such a great inspirational story to all of us. Nationally, but certainly in this area. His positive outlook and the way he handled his difficult situation was just incredible. Glad I had an opportunity to interact a little bit with him and his foundation. Just a sad day for a kid that went through so much and handled it in an incredibly positive way.”

Obviously a very sad day for his family and everyone that knew him. He was 45 years old at the time of his death.