Mike Dussault

I’m drooling over here. No matter how next Monday night goes I’ll be almost as excited for Thursday.

There are plenty of other interesting nuggets. One doesn’t expect to see Belichick trash-talking with then-Ravens receiver Derrick Mason during a Week 4 game, with some we’re-going-to-have-to-bleep-this-out language. Belichick also tells Baltimore’s Ed Reed that he thinks he’s the best free safety who ever played the game.

Later, we learn that Belichick wanted to avoid a postgame handshake with Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels, his former offensive coordinator, so he embraced him before the game and told him they’d just wave afterward.