Coach Bill Belichick Takes Shot at Critics and Talks Cam Newton’s Contract

Bill Belichick has taken a shot at the critics and talks about Cam Newtons contract. The Patriots are very much struggling to get back on track. After the first few weeks of the season, they were looking pretty impressive. Since the COVID situation look over though, they have struggled.

Belichick talked about what they were trying to do to get back on track. Take a look at what he said.

“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.”

Coach Bill Belichick Takes Shot at Critics and Talks Cam Newton’s Contract

Now he has gone off on critics that continue talking about Cam Newton’s contract.

“We’re playing more young players than we’ve played in the past [for a] combination of reasons. We were pretty heavily invested in our team in the past few years. From a salary-cap standpoint, we didn’t have much flexibility at all. I think that was obvious on the Cam Newton contract [one year, $1.05 million base salary]. Then we had some opt-outs, so we lost some players there that would normally have been giving us a significant amount of playing time.”

“And then like every year, a couple of guys are banged up and we’ve missed some guys here and there in certain games. I think when you combine it all together, there is an opportunity there; some of that opportunity has gone to younger players. This is kind of the year that we’ve taken to, I would say, adjust our cap from the spending that we’ve had in accumulation of prior years. We just haven’t been able to have the kind of depth on our roster that we’ve had in some other years. That’s provided more opportunity for younger players. So it’s a combination of all the reasons.”

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What do you think about what he had to say?