{"id":143289,"date":"2025-09-09T05:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143289\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T05:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T05:10:09","slug":"mike-vrabel-bill-belichick-has-been-back-to-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/143289\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Vrabel: Bill Belichick has been back to New England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weird, one-way feud between Bill Belichick and the Patriots went next level on Saturday, when the North Carolina coach justified his ban on Patriots scouts by explaining that he\u2019s not welcome in New England.<\/p>\n<p>Appearing Monday on WEEI\u2019s The Greg Hill Show, current Patriots coach Mike Vrabel was asked whether Belichick is banned, and whether Vrabel is surprised by the ban Belichick has imposed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing surprises me,\u201d Vrabel said. \u201cHe came back for \u2014 the best of my knowledge \u2014 Tom [Brady\u2019s] ceremony, so that I would . . . yeah, I guess he\u2019s welcome back based on the fact that he was there, so <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lcpK4eJPy5c?si=g_qBYNScTa68Lacn&amp;t=584\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">I\u2019ll just go by that<\/a>. Since his departure as the head coach here, he\u2019s been back, and I\u2019ll leave it at that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s amazingly bizarre that Belichick would paint himself as a victim with alternative facts. And, as explained on Sunday, it could get expensive for UNC.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriots <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/bill-belichicks-patriots-ban-could-get-north-carolina-sued\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">would have a slam-dunk claim<\/a> against Belichick and North Carolina for violating the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Unless, of course, Belichick slams the door on all NFL teams.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s more than petty enough to do just that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The weird, one-way feud between Bill Belichick and the Patriots went next level on Saturday, when the North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-143289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}