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According to Profootballtalk.com's Darin Gantt, the Patriots boss was open about his disappointment for his friend Chip Kelly, after the Eagles fired him this week.

“Yeah, I would say it’s actually disappointing,” Belichick told CSNNE.com. “Chip Kelly to me is a really good football coach. He does a great job. I think he’s done a good job with that team. It’s disappointing to see, you know, Josh [McDaniels] in Denver. ... There’s a lot of examples. But pretty much everybody’s on a one-year contract in this league.

"I don’t know how you build a program in one year.

“Chip’s a great coach. He’ll end up somewhere, and he’ll do a great job there. I’d say a lot of the players that were on the Eagles that are no longer on the Eagles aren’t really doing too much for anybody else, either.”

What about that? Does Belichick have right about the players turned loose by Kelly?

As NFL.com's Chris Wesseling notes, waylaid by injuries for portions of the season, DeSean Jackson and LeSean McCoy haven't played up to their contracts in 2015. Evan Mathis is part of a sub-par offensive line in Denver. Trent Cole managed just three sacks for a disappointing Colts squad. Nick Foles was benched for Case Keenum. Cary Williams, Bradley Fletcher and Todd Herremans have already been cut by the teams that signed them in March.

Outside of Jeremy Maclin's success on Andy Reid's playoff-bound Chiefs, Kelly hasn't been burned by the players he discarded.

But, as Wesseling summed up, "It's the players he overpaid to acquire that did him in."