As often happens when Bill Belichick coaches against one of his former assistants, the showdown between teacher and student got heated.
Only Belichick was an innocent nonbystander on the opposite sideline, nowhere near the tongue-lashing and glare Broncos coach Josh McDaniels gave his special-teams assistant, Mike Priefer.
“I deserved it,” Priefer said. “It was a field position game and those were costly mistakes. I should have coached them better. But that’s OK. We’ll learn from it and keep getting better.”
Everything’s OK, because a long day of frustration erupted into another week of jubilation after Matt Prater kicked a 41-yard field goal in overtime to give McDaniels’ Broncos a come-from-behind, 20-17 victory over Belichick’s New England Patriots at Invesco Field at Mile High.
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