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    Belichick continues to set the tone, even if it's usually a gruff one

    by Andy McCullough, Los Angeles Times Jan 21, 2018 5 minutes

    FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - The greatest coach in the history of the modern NFL - a league designed to disband dynasties and exhaust the men attempting to maintain them - jostled a microphone into place and sighed.

    "All right, well," Bill Belichick said from a podium late last Saturday, "I thought that was a real good effort by our team tonight."

    A speaker system amplified his remarks, but his voice still barely reached the back of a small auditorium on the ground floor of Gillette Stadium. During a divisional playoff weekend marked by hysteria and histrionics, from the jubilation in Minnesota to the trash talking from Jacksonville to the wagon-circling in Philadelphia, Belichick and his New England Patriots offered low-key satisfaction, and little else.

    The moment called for braggadocio. In the wake of a riveting, explosive ESPN report outlining tension

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