Damien Harris’ late fumble will likely be the most memorable play of New England’s season-opening loss to Miami.
The play was met with a ton of armchair criticism on social media — not uncommon for Twitter — and on Friday morning, Bill Belichick was asked broadly how he helps players navigate feedback as a coach. He began his answer with a disclaimer.
“I don’t really know or care anything about social media,” Belichick said. “I don’t even know what’s out there or isn’t out there, so that’s irrelevant to me. But it doesn’t matter. We played football before there was social media and it didn’t matter then either.”
From there, Belichick dove into how the Patriots handle things.
“I think anytime you have a team that we all rely on each other, we’re all accountable to each other, we all support each other and we all make mistakes,” Belichick said. “We can make a mistake at the beginning of the game, we can make a mistake at the end of the game and sometimes that gets magnified because of the timing of it. But there are other things that could have happened at different points of the game that would have had just as big or maybe even a bigger effect on the game.
“I know there are things in the game that I maybe could have done a better job of, or maybe done differently, and I think it would have affected the outcome of the game. I’m sure every player and coach and participant in the game feels like that. I felt like that when I called plays or even when I played. Not that I was...
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