Other than the NFL network, I love everything NFL except for these silly willy games across the pond.   Let the Brits have their football.  There is no chance their football is going to be playing to full crowds in the states.   

Mr. Belichick might be a real stiff in some social circles but he knows what his job is and what is best, long term, for the long term outlook for the team.  Don't you wish you saw his face when he learned that he had to take his team back across the pond?   Shades of the little boy being spoon fed castor oil!   

I am still surprised that the game is going to be televised here at 5PM EDT!  I think there is a five hour difference so that means the game is going to START at 10PM??!!    What do those Brits think they are anyways?   Major League Baseball??

BB is no less pleasant in London than he is in Boston and the rest of the US of A.  He may be good at football strategy, but that is still open to debate, given the team's performance for the last many years.  He has a chronic, unremitting problem with public relations.  Since that is clearly one dimension of the expectations of a head coach, it would be fair to say that he has a split report card.  Football skills - possibly, but questionably, an A.  Public Relations skills - F.  Either Kraft needs to come down on him, or he needs to change his antidepressant medication level, or he needs to spend more time with his therapist, and work this thing out.  His public behavior is simply too far below par for a position with this visibility.

It would appear that Mr. Belichick walking the walk of his mantra: "Just Do Your Job."

His job is coaching - something he will go to Canton for. His job is not PR (we have Rex Ryan for that) or flamboyance (we have Jerry Jones for that) or Good Will Ambassador (Bob Kraft is superb in this capacity). His job is not inane columns (we have Mr. Gaspar and son-of-the-record for that.

His job is to coach. He coaches.

I'm with Bill.

Why are the Patriots playing in London? They played there in 09 and get another chance so soon something doesn't add up.

Good for him.

Wow, breaking news. Belichick isn't enthusiastic. Thanks for the flash, flash. Must be slow in London this weekend. Hang out in Leicester Square just west of Covent Garden, I'm sure you'll find your favorite form of recreation, or it will find you somewhere in that vicinity.

Get off it.  He's a football coach--not a goodwill ambassador.  Even if he was bubbling over with NFL entusiasm, it wouldn't accelerate the advent of American style football in England or Europe.  They have their own football and, moreover, understand that the American version is brutal, disabling large numbers of highly paid players week after week--and many for a lifetime.  Theirs rarely does.

Can the Globe get Charley Pierce back, so we can we can actually read something interesting about Coach Bellichick, ya know with a fresh point of view, along with a few interesting and humerous allusions, some cutting edge sarcasm, without words seemingly picked out of a thesaurus five minutes prior to dealine and an actual concept or point? Can we, in lieu of this warmed over, repetitive,hackneyed and sophomoric tripe that is the current hallmark of this "column". Can we?

Bob Kraft should have a talk with Billy Boy. He disrespects fans,the media,and any other person that somehow directly pays his salary. Belechick is becoming an old miserable SOB. Maybe it's time he steps aside and lets some new blood in. Either that or clean up his attitude and start coaching like he did ten years ago and start treating people with the respect they deserve.