Bill Belichick has a black eye.
No, not from Spygate. Or Deflategate. Or bailing on the Jets or giving nine-word press conferences or any other reputation-damaging thing.
Literally, a nasty-looking purple smudge over his left eye. And in typical Belichick fashion, he wasn’t giving away any details about the injury.
“I think I’ll live,” Belichick said, according to the Boston Globe, after he was asked about the bruise at a Tuesday morning briefing about the Patriots’ divisional-round playoff game against the visiting Chiefs.
“I don’t think we need to list the coaches on the injury report.”
Guess that rules out the designation: Bill Belichick (face).
Patriots players, including backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, told reporters they had no idea what happened to Belichick — and were skeptical of getting an answer from the notoriously tight-lipped coach.