It is more than clear that the 2020 season of the National Football League (NFL) is very far from being ideal for New England Patriots, who currently have a negative record of two wins and four losses, something that his head coach tried to explain, in his style, Bill Belichick.
In the run-up to this Sunday’s duel, where they will visit Buffalo Bills, the strategist explained that one of the causes that have the Massachusetts franchise in a terrible sporting moment is that they do not have enough money to hire new players.
In conversation with SiriusXM NFL Radio, Belichick clarified that this bad campaign is due to the fact that they had complications with the salary cap, where they did not have much space to invest in reinforcements, something that was revealed with the signing of Cam Newton, which came for a year in exchange for $ 1.05 million.
News story: On less depth and more younger players seeing action, Bill Belichick says 2020 is a season in which the Patriots have taken to “adjust our [salary] cap from the spending that we’ve had in accumulation of prior years.” https://t.co/CBk1wlEu5G
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October 31, 2020
Belichick’s explanation for the Patriots’ bad timing
“We are playing with more young players than we have played in the past. for a combination of reasons. We have been very committed to our team in recent years. From the point of view of the salary cap, we didn’t have much flexibility at all “, assured the strategist.
In addition, he added that as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, “we lost a few players there that would normally have given us a significant amount of playing time. And then like every year a couple of guys get hit and we’ve missed some players here and there. “.
In this sense, Belichick’s evaluation suggests that “This is the kind of year we’ve taken to, I would say, adjust our spending cap that we’ve had on accumulation from prior years. We just haven’t been able to get the kind of depth on our list that we’ve had in other years.. That has provided more opportunities for the younger players. So it’s a combination of all the reasons “.
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