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It takes a genius

By Seth Wickersham
ESPN The Magazine

Wednesday, August 26, 2009

This story appears in the September 7 issue of ESPN The Magazine. AS SENDOFFS GO, they seem like empty ones. In a final meeting with an assistant coach on his way out of New England to run another team, Bill Belichick and his departing employee will usually get together in the head coach's office. They will chitchat about the assistant's new job for a few minutes, even exchange a few pleasantries. Then, reaching for a handshake, Belichick always says the same thing: "Learn from your time he ...

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