It's like ESPN gets it's newbies off some turnip truck.
"There was his inexplicably negative reaction to his protégé, Eric Mangini, leaving the New England staff to take over the Jets' head coaching job two years ago.
I don't think it's inexplicable any more. Unlike most head coaches, who would never stand in the way of one of their assistants getting a head job, Belichick acted as if he'd been betrayed. During the Jets' courting of Mangini, Belichick had the locks changed at Patriots' headquarters, and the first time the two teams met last season, Belichick brushed off Mangini's attempt at a post-game handshake as if his ex-assistant had the plague.
Somebody needs to fax this bozo a copy of the story of how BB came to be here and how and whom he escaped from only by scrawling his resignation on a ****tail napkin...
He treated Colts quarterback Peyton Manning much the same way after Manning finally beat the Pats in the AFC championship game last year.
No he didn't, he visited him in the locker room and was beyond cordial.No one is saying Belichick has to be Miss Manners, but would it kill him to be gracious, just for a moment or two? Maybe most damning was the allegation by former Patriot linebacker Ted Johnson that Belichick pressured him to play and subjected him to full contact in practice while Johnson was still suffering the effects of a concussion. Belichick has denied the accusation.
Which was made by a retired player with drug dependancy and mental health issues that probably relate more to things he did to himself over the course of his career than anything coaches across the league were doing to all their players at the behest of the JETS team physician with the medical degree from a third world country the 
JETS management got Tagliabue to put in charge of the league's concussion policies.
It's a disturbingly long list of behavior that paints Belichick as paranoid, unsportsmanlike, classless and, if Johnson's claims are true, even abusive. Taken separately, none of his actions may seem so objectionable, but together, they're troubling. It's doubtful that NFL commissioner Roger Goddell will go as far as suspending Belichick for his spying tactics last Sunday, but a short, enforced vacation might be the best thing for him. It might force him to realize that his behavior just isn't normal, even for an NFL coach.
Wanna bet, junior?
