This is really simply guys. Belichick is too busy devising schemes that put players who really care about winning in a position to win to have the time or the inclination to engage in all that touchy feely BS - which when they cut you or your salary eventually as they all do, or throw you under the bus to save their own skins as quite a few of them are prone to do - is all the hugging really ever amounted to.
Belichick doesn't spend a lot of time talking about them as "men" like Herm does, he prefers to treat them like men and see if they respond like men. If they don't then they really don't belong on this team. Life is all about choices.
Who was the last hugger HC to win a Superbowl anyway? Vermeil with the original Greatest Show on Turf? The last 6 have gone to an egomaniacal diva who didn't think the QB or your felony record mattered, an egomaniacal screamer who prompltly lost all his players to a cap purge, a spitter whose tightwad old school owner favors building and re-loading through the draft, and 3 to Bill Belichick who believes deep value based teams and not splashy talent wins championships.
BTW Deion got one of those cushy commercials after he won his MVP, along with an offer to extend him 2 years early. Didn't work then either. The commercials go the the guys who take a little less to win. Bruschi, Harrison, Vrabel, Brown, Colvin. In other words the core guys plus Brady. Deion never exhibited core qualities because while he performed well in spurts he was always in it for himself. When he cried in Denver it wasn't because his team lost - he already knew he was going to start holding out on them in 8 weeks. He was crying because he wasn't going to get another superbowl appearance on his me and Jerry Rice resume.
