The NFL is a macho, a grown-ups league, an ultra competitive league full of Type A personalities. To have one coach loom over so many others – not all of his peers, but many – is almost unfathomable.

Yet New England’s opponents keep making terrible decisions, keep obsessing over shadows, keep sweeping locker rooms for bugs, keep complaining to the refs, keep staring across the way and wondering what the Hoodie is up to.