"I mean, you know, there are a lot of teams that don't ... they seem kind of reluctant to trade -- this time of year, especially," Belichick said, per CSN New England, noting of the Van Noy swap: "It's one of those things that came up fairly quickly and just worked out. It wasn't something we had talked about or anything like that previously. As I said, it kind of came up so we were able to work it out."