FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Quick-hit thoughts and notes around the New England Patriots and NFL:
1. Quiet at combine: The NFL scouting combine takes place March 1-7 in Indianapolis, and true to form, Bill Belichick plans to keep a lower media profile.
The Patriots are the only NFL team not scheduled to have either their head coach or a personnel executive answer questions from non-team-based reporters from media headquarters.
The league doesn’t require teams to conduct such interviews, but encourages them to do so. Belichick’s Patriots and Sean Payton’s New Orleans Saints have been the usual holdouts in recent years. But Payton has stepped away from coaching this year, and in turn the Saints are scheduled to have his replacement, Dennis Allen, answer questions from non-team-based reporters.
Belichick as this year’s lone outlier is hardly a surprise. He isn’t one to feed the hype, especially in…
