Did Bill Belichick Find a Way to Infect Sam Darnold with Mono? An Investigation
From WebMD:
Mononucleosis is an infectious illness that’s sometimes called mono or “the kissing disease.” While you can get the virus that causes it through kissing, you can also get it in other ways like sharing drinks or utensils. It’s contagious, but you’re less likely to catch mono than other illnesses like the common cold. …
The symptoms of mono can be mild, but they can also become very severe. If that happens, you may not be able to take part in your normal, daily activities for up to several weeks. …
EBV spreads through bodily fluids. The most common way it spreads is through saliva, which is why you can get it from kissing. You can also get it if you share food, drinks, or silverware with a person who has it, or if an infected person coughs or sneezes near you.
Interesting. So mono is something you can contract not merely by kissing but by just being around someone who has it. In other words, Sam Darnold could have gotten it from someone he shares a locker room, a gym and a cafeteria with. And it’s something that can lay a person up for weeks. Very very interesting. Especially when one considers the timing.
Let’s review the timeline here:
September 9: Situation normal.
September 10: Bill Belichick makes his first ever trade with the New York Jets, who had been the one team among 31 in the league he had never made a deal with. He sends Demaryius Thomas to them for what amounts to a few Dave & Buster’s arcade tickets.
September 12: Sam Darnold contracts an infectious disease.
September 22: The Jets play at New England, likely with Trevor Siemian instead of Darnold.
Coincidence? Maybe. Maybe not. In the decades that Bill Belichick has been commanding the greatest empire in history, conquering territory across the known world, he’s engaged in every type of warfare imaginable. Conventional. Asymmetric. Aerial. On land. Naval. Mountain campaigns. Winter campaigns. Foreign excursions. Overseas campaigns. Plus he’s engaged in espionage. Psychological warfare. Possibly psychic warfare. So it’s just possible that he’s now getting into biological warfare.
I’m not saying Demaryius Thomas has mono and Belichick sent him to New York like a smallpox blanket to infect Sam Darnold before facing the Jets. But I’m not saying he didn’t. I’m just saying that given his history of waging unconventional warfare and the bad blood between these two teams, it is not entirely implausible that Thomas is a mono-filled Trojan Horse sent to guarantee the Patriots defense faces another of John Elway’s failed quarterback draft picks instead of a highly regarded, steadily improving Sam Darnold. Stranger things have happened is all.
If there is anything to this, you have to hope that Thomas is getting fairly compensated. This poor guy went from post-surgery Peyton Manning to Trevor Siemian. Then to Tom Brady. Then to Sam Darnold. And now back to Trevor Siemian. Spies often have to do brutal, thankless jobs without anyone knowing what they’ve done. But this is beyond the call of duty.