{"id":2802,"date":"2013-07-24T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/belichick-time-for-the-new-england-patriots-to-move-forward\/"},"modified":"2013-07-24T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:09:00","slug":"belichick-time-for-the-new-england-patriots-to-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/belichick-time-for-the-new-england-patriots-to-move-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Belichick: &#8216;Time for the New England Patriots to move forward&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foxboro, MA (Sports Network) &#8211; New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick broke his silence for the first time since Aaron Hernandez&#8217;s arrest last month.<\/p>\n<p>Belichick made a lengthy statement during Wednesday&#8217;s press conference about the situation involving Hernandez. The former Patriots tight end has pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge in the death of Odin Lloyd.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m personally disappointed and hurt in a situation like this,&#8221; said Belichick, who offered sympathy to the family of the victim, and called it &#8220;a sad day on so many levels.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The veteran coach described the process of selecting players is &#8220;far from perfect&#8221; and vowed that the organization will &#8220;learn from this terrible experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Belichick said that it&#8217;s time for the club to move on. &#8220;Moving forward consists of what it&#8217;s always been here: to build a winning football team, to be a strong pillar in the community, be a team that our fans can be proud of. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re here for,&#8221; he declared.<\/p>\n<p>Once through the statement, Belichick stonewalled any questions related to Hernandez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foxboro, MA (Sports Network) &#8211; New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick broke his silence for the first time since Aaron Hernandez&#8217;s arrest last month. Belichick made a lengthy statement during Wednesday&#8217;s press conference about the situation involving Hernandez. The former Patriots tight end has pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[182,181,183],"class_list":["post-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-new-england","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-patriots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}