In 1970, Steve Belichick's son Bill enrolled at Phillips Academy for a post-graduate year after graduating from Annapolis High School.
[2] Adams was hired as an offensive and administrative assistant, and eventually prepared scouting reports for the team, which Fairbanks said were the most thorough he had received in his career.
[1] Adams left Wall Street to join the Cleveland Browns in 1991, where Belichick had just been named to his first NFL head coaching position.
[1] However, Belichick was fired by the franchise after the Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Ravens in 1996, and Adams returned to Wall Street, starting his own investment business.
On gamedays, he assisted the coaching staff from the team's upper level skybox, where his duties included advising Belichick on which plays to issue a replay challenge.
[1] For many years, the Patriots' gameday communications system included a telephone handset labeled "ERNIE" that was mounted within easy reach of Belichick, other coaches and key players.
[1] In 2007, as part of Spygate, it was revealed that Adams received tapes from a "third camera" that recorded opponents' defensive signals from a location on the sideline, in violation of a league memo issued by commissioner Roger Goodell.
Belichick confirmed this was the case, but said that they were only a small part of the "mosaic" that formed the Patriots' offensive game plans at the time.