Bill Belichick insists that he isn't all that interested in analytics. His justification for that opinion, though, makes it seem as if the New England Patriots' legendary coach doesn't exactly have a handle on how teams use advanced statistics in the modern-day NFL.

During a press conference at Gillette Stadium on Friday ahead of his team's highly-anticipated Week 4 matchup with the Buffalo Bills, Belichick downplayed the role analytics have in his decision-making process.

“Analytics is not really my thing,” he said, per Henry McKenna of Patriots Wire. “I just try to evaluate what I see.”

Fair. Every team in the league has different ways of formulating game plans and and calling plays in real time. It's not like Belichick needs to deviate from how he's long let the numbers inform his thinking, either. The Patriots' ongoing dynasty is one of the most impressive achievements in all of sports.

But when asked if he makes decisions based on his gut feeling, Belichick demurred while invoking past decades of play, saying he doesn't let what took place many years prior influence his thought process.

“I’m not saying it’s a gut thing,” he said. “It’s an individual analysis based on the things that are pertinent to that game and that situation. I don’t really care what happened in 1973 and what those teams did or didn’t do, I don’t really think that matters in this game – or ’83 or ’90, you know, pick out whatever year you want. It’s not really my thing. And I like math, too, by the way. I really do. I like math.”

What does football in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s have to do with modern-day analytics? That seems unclear to pretty much anyone but Belichick. At least he likes math, though, right?