Bill Belichick, an apparent expert at all things air pressure, is again trying to gain an advantage when the weather turns frigid.
The Patriots’ infamously conniving head coach ordered thermometers placed inside the Jets tunnel before the Jets-Patriots game in Foxborough, Mass., on Sunday, according to an ESPN report.
The bit of psychological warfare was in play because the game-time temperature was forecast as 15 degrees, with a minus-4 wind chill. That’s bone-chilling weather for a 5-10 Jets team that is playing out the string, and Belichick, trying to wrap up home-field advantage in the AFC, may be trying to get the Jets to look ahead to the offseason. Only one team will know exactly how bitterly cold it is.
The Patriots are 42-10 in the last 24 years when the kickoff temperature is 34 degrees or colder, and it’s becoming more clear just how out of the box Belichick will think if it means a possible Patriots edge.
How does Belichick himself handle the cold, though? In shorts and a T-shirt, obviously.