Twitter Has a Lot to Say About Bill Belichick’s Texting Habits: TRAINA THOUGHTS

1. There was a lot to chew on Tuesday when news broke that former Dolphins coach Brian Flores had filed a lawsuit against the NFL alleging racist hiring practices.

In a surreal twist, a big reason the lawsuit came about was that Bill Belichick allegedly sent texts to Flores that were supposedly intended for new Giants head coach Brian Daboll.

Texts from Bill Belichick to Brian Flores, congratulating Brian for landing the #Giants job.

Belichick thought he was texting Brian Daboll. He was texting Flores by mistake. pic.twitter.com/Y686XcjYC3
— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) February 1, 2022

The revelation that Bill Belichick would A) send texts with aggressive use of exclamation points and B) sign off on his texts with “BB” was ripe for Twitter fodder.

This entire saga regarding the Belichick texts also led some people to throw out some conspiracy theories.

And because I’ve always said everything in life is a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode, I was right there:

Did Bill Belichick send an accidental text on purpose to finally get revenge on Roger Goodell for Deflategate? Discuss.
— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) February 1, 2022

Here are some of the best tweets over the past 24 hours about Belichick’s texting snafu.

Just wait until we find out Bill Belichick meant to text Adam Sandler about Tom Brady’s retirement but accidentally texted Adam Schefter.
— Tom Fornelli (@TomFornelli) February 1, 2022

So, if I have this right, Bill Belichick can design defenses to stop the top offenses in the NFL, but his inability properly use an iPhone is what's going to bring the NFL to its knees.

What a time to be alive.
— Stephen Holder (@HolderStephen) February 1, 2022

Bill Belichick is probably asking Tom Brady for advice on cell phone destruction right now. Hope he texts the right Tom
— ThatsGoodSports (@BrandonPerna) February 1, 2022

Mac Jones showing Bill Belichick how to add last names to his phone pic.twitter.com/apfqI6iRll
— bryan (@ShowtimeKnicks) February 2, 2022

Stop making fun of Bill Belichick's texting he is doing his very best pic.twitter.com/HYO6wFSARZ
— Jason Kirk (tell your library about my book) (@JasonKirk_fyi) February 1, 2022

Bill Belichick after realizing he was texting Brian Flores and not Brian Dabollhttps://t.co/4uBtebVNRw
— Pickswise (@Pickswise) February 1, 2022

I can tell you this much, I bet you Bill Belichick is DONE wit texting. Bout to walk in TMobile and get wit that T9 life pic.twitter.com/Gr06t3UP0w
— Roy Wood Jr- Ex Jedi (@roywoodjr) February 1, 2022

Bill Belichick, as soon as he sent Flores that text pic.twitter.com/6Yky7erFIe
— So Sayeth Black Lord: (@jmood88) February 1, 2022

Two thoughts:

- the NFL (and sports) needs to move past performative actions like the Rooney Rule and writing "END RACISM" on helmets and end zones

- Bill Belichick uses way more exclamation points in texts than I would've expected https://t.co/xFSzO5qurJ
— Joon Lee (@joonlee) February 1, 2022

the most shocking part about this whole thing is Bill Belichick used 3 exclamation points in a text message

had him pegged as a periods only at the end of sentences guy
— Tyler Conway (@jtylerconway) February 1, 2022

When Bill Belichick wants to end a conversation with you he just hits a BB on you https://t.co/HMxYHZR4Cc
— CJ (@CJSTLOU) February 1, 2022

The two hour gap between Flores asking Belichick if he knows who he's talking to and Belichick replying is excruciating https://t.co/Em49pB61Km
— Jason Schwartz (@JasonSchwartz) February 1, 2022

2. My colleague Jon Wertheim recently interviewed Al Michaels, who is still playing coy about the rumors that he'll be joining Amazon to call Thursday Night Football next season.

In praise of Al Michaels for @SInow :https://t.co/ordJ7F4lQz
— Jon Wertheim (@jon_wertheim) February 2, 2022

3. Gronk's goodbye message to Tom Brady ... actually, make that Gronky's goodbye message to Tommy Boy, was exactly what you'd expect, and it was wonderful.

4. Hopefully this is a sign that TNT will do the right thing by making Kevin Harlan its lead NBA announcer come playoff time when the network will air the Western Conference finals.

NEWS: Post Marv Albert, TNT is going with Kevin Harlan, Reggie Miller and Charles Barkley on All-Star Game, The Post has learned. https://t.co/mal0JpHyKa via @nypostsports
— Andrew Marchand (@AndrewMarchand) February 2, 2022

5. A couple of weeks ago, I posted this on Twitter for my old-school WWF fans.

Simply put, of the greatest performances in television history. pic.twitter.com/pLkts838ZQ
— Jimmy Traina (@JimmyTraina) January 12, 2022

That address to mail get well cards to Hulk Hogan was indeed real. And the then WWF actually responded with thank you notes. 1980s wrestling was the best.

wwf said that if we wrote hulk hogan while he was “in the hospital” after earthquake attacked him on the brother love show that hulk would write us back

this is what we got back pic.twitter.com/xrJJUCIiD9
— Bill Hanstock (@sundownmotel) January 30, 2022

6. This week's SI Media Podcast is a mega episode with three guests: WWE superstar Roman Reigns, Fox Sports' Joe Buck and CBS Sports' Jim Nantz.

You can listen to the podcast below or download it on Apple, Spotify and Stitcher.

You can also watch the SI Media Podcast on YouTube.

7. RANDOM VIDEO OF THE DAY: Yesterday was the 13th anniversary of the greatest opening sequence of The Office, which came in the "Stress Relief" episode that aired on Feb. 1, 2009.

Be sure to catch up on past editions of Traina Thoughts and check out the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast hosted by Jimmy Traina on Apple, Spotify or Stitcher. You can also follow Jimmy on Twitter and Instagram.

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