"As great as today is, in all honesty, we're five weeks behind 30 teams in the league in preparing for the 2017 season," Belichick said Monday morning at the Super Bowl MVP press conference.
"Now is not really the time to do that. If you don't do a good job with your football team in February, March and April, you're probably going to see that in November, December and January."
"We have some catching up to do. But it's where we want to be."
----Championship mentality----
While TB is frantically searching for his missing jersey
That is a true retirement signal