Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said he is putting the Patriots 17-14 loss to the Giants in Super Bowl XLII in the past.


“It’s time to move on,” Belichick said. “I’m not going to sit here and dwell on anything, good or bad, that happened in the past. It is what it is. We played our last game of the 2007 season.”


With the memory still fresh of the incredible Super Bowl loss that ruined the New England Patriots perfect season, their coach hasn’t watched tape of the game yet or analyzed everything that went wrong.


“I wasn’t really sure of the time,” Belichick said in a conference Tuesday. “Everybody started on to the field and then I got over there and I wanted to congratulate Tom. I’ve been in that situation before after the game. I wanted to get over there and congratulate him on the championship. There really wasn’t much left at that point.”

“It’s a disappointing end to a lot of good things that happened this season,” Belichick said. “We played a lot of good football, but we’re certainly disappointed about the way it ended. We came so close, but it just didn’t work out. It takes a lot to get to this point, but now it’s starting over, into the 2008 season. It’s already time to move on. We’re into the offseason and that’s just the way it is. We’ll start moving ahead toward next year.”


“I have said this in previous years and I would say it every year,” Bill Belichick said. “I don’t think the day after the season is a great time to make decisions about anything. So how those players feel now, and how they might feel a week from now, or two weeks from now, or a month from now, could be entirely different. I’ve certainly seen that in my career as a coach and I’ve had feelings after a game, that after a period of time have shifted a bit too for various reasons. … A lot of times those are emotional decisions and not really good fundamental ones.”