What This Patriots Player Said He Did To Keep Coach From Cutting Him Will Make You…

Longtime New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick has earned a reputation as one of the NFL’s strictest, most demanding coaches.

Well, he has to because he has a track record to maintain. Aside from the six Super Bowls, Belichick won as the Patriots’ head coach, a major part of Belichick’s lore is his stern manner.

Belichick’s attitude has famously led to strict punishments for players who show up late for team practices and meetings over the years.

And one former player just revealed the desperate lengths he said he once went to avoid getting fired by the legendary football icon — he crashed his car.

Ohrnberger, who hosts The Hartman & Rich O Show alongside Steve Hartman on XTRA 1360, revealed he once overslept during the day of a Patriots training camp session and feared the stern head coach would cut him.

“I wake up, my phone died overnight, and I realize I wake up to the sound of chirping birds and not my alarm going off, and I am frantic,” he explained. “I don’t even bother looking at the clock.”

“I had this sinking feeling in my stomach,” Ohrnberger said. “Like ‘I’m gonna get cut. Like, he’s not going to have me on this football team come tomorrow. What do I do?’”

Like a lot of people, he looked for an excuse for his tardiness. That excuse wound up being crashing his vehicle into a dented church van on his drive to the Patriots’ facility.

“I see a church van in front of me that’s all dinged up. It’s got the black smoke coming out of the exhaust pipe. I’m like, ‘I’m gonna hit this car.’ I’m gonna rear end this car. I’m gonna hit this car because it’s better to pay the insurance or peel off this guy a couple hundred bucks than embarrass myself for being late to this Patriots team meeting,” he explained.

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Then, the NFL rookie realized that he had hit an elderly man, which he felt awful about.

“I rear end this poor old man, who by the way, was like minutes from being 100 years old,” he added.

Once Orhnberger arrived at the Patriots facility, he spoke with Belichick’s assistant before seeing his offensive line coach, Dante Scarnecchia. His boss wasn’t buying his story.

“First one in there was Dante Scarnecchia, my offensive line coach,” Ohrnberger continued. “He goes, ‘How’s it going, speed racer?’ I was like, ‘What’s that?’ He says, ‘Running a little late this morning?’ I was like, ‘Dante, I got into an accident.’ He’s like, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah. That stuff may fly at IBM if you’re one of those geeks working on the computers and stuff. That stuff doesn’t work here. You be on time from now on.’”

Sources: DailyWire, USA Today, The Hartman & Rich O Show