HOLD THE PHONE

Bill Belichick just won’t let it go. He hates the Jets so much he won’t even mention them by name. He showed once again how petty, vindictive and disrespectful he can be last week when the Patriots were practicing against the Texans at Houston’s training camp in West Virginia. Belichick was asked about his long-time relationship with Texans assistant head coach Romeo Crennel.

“Romeo and I started together at the Giants in special teams, so he and I coached special teams together and then we coached defensively together through 1990,” he said. “We worked at the Patriots together, then another team, and then back with the Patriots in 2001.”

Belichick and Crennel worked on the Jets staff together from 199799. “Another team” was a least better than saying, “A team that wears green and white and hasn’t won a Super Bowl in nearly 50 years and we beat up on twice a year.”

That reminded me of 2006 when Bill Parcells was forced to accept free agent knucklehead Terrell Owens in Dallas by Jerry Jones and then refused to mention T.O. by name the entire season. Owens was “the player,” according to Parcells. He was never T.O., Terrell or Owens.

Belichick may be the NFL’s alltime best coach. He has been to seven Super Bowls and won five of them in 17 seasons in New England. No head coach has won more.

But he just can’t stop rubbing the Jets nose in the scorched earth he left behind on Jan. 4, 2000, when he quit as the “HC of the NYJ.” Why does he hate the Jets so much? It’s not enough the Jets have won just one AFC East title and the Patriots have won 15 in the years Belichick has been in New England. He just loves to dump on them even though he’s the one who reneged on a contract and went to the enemy.

After the 1998 season, Jets owner Leon Hess gave Belichick $1 million to not consider any head coaching opportunities and to stick by Parcells’ side. His contract contained a clause that immediately promoted him to Jets coach in the event Parcells was to step aside. Hess died on May 7, 1999. Parcells informed the Jets he was resigning as coach — he was going to remain as GM — moments after the Jets played Seattle in the final game of the ’99 season.

Belichick, by contract, was now the Jets head coach. One day after Parcells stepped down, so did Belichick. He wanted to go to New England to work for Robert Kraft. They had become friendly in the one year Belichick spent on Parcells staff with the Patriots in 1996. Kraft would have hired Belichick to replace Parcells in 1997 but he associated him with the stench still lingering from Parcells’ ugly departure and wanted to make a clean break. Belichick accompanied Parcells to the Jets.

But three years later, Belichick didn’t want the Jets job. He wanted to get out of Parcells’ shadow. The ownership competition was down to Woody Johnson and Charles Dolan and Belichick decided he would rather work for Kraft. His rambling news conference to announce he was quitting after just 24 hours as the Jets coach was one of the most memorable moments in NFL history. Belichick came off as a tortured soul and Jets president Steve Gutman seized on the opportunity to question Belichick’s sanity.

“I think, I’m not a psychologist, but I think I just listened for an hour to a person who is in some turmoil and deserves our understanding and our consideration,” Gutman said. Gutman stopped short of calling in the medics to take Belichick away in a straitjacket. Even though Gutman is long gone from the Jets, his words hang over Belichick. He doesn’t forget, except when recalling what the “another team” is called.

Of course, the Belichick-Jets relationship was forever destroyed by Spygate when former protégé Eric Mangini turned in Belichick for cheating by secretly taping the Jets defensive signals. Even though it’s debatable how much the spying helped Belichick, and he will be a first ballot Hall of Famer five years after he retires, his record will forever be tarnished. So, that’s why he hates the Jets so much. The team president wanted to have him committed and his former little brother turned him in as a cheater. He can’t even mention the Jets by name. And just to stick it to them even further, watch the Patriots win another Super Bowl this season and get David Harris a ring three years after they got one for Darrelle Revis.

About all the Jets can hope for this season is they find a way to get one game off the team in New England when they play Oct. 15 at MetLife and finish the regular season in Foxborough on Dec. 31. Ben McAdoo

Holdouts just don’t happen very often in the NFL anymore, especially when teams can fine players $40,000 a day for no-showing training camp. Aaron Donald of the Rams is the best DT in the NFL but has been staying away from camp rather than play for the same $1.8 million Odell Beckham is getting in the fourth year of his contract. The Rams also picked up the fifth-year option on Donald for $6.9 million. …Raiders LT Donald Penn, in the last year of a deal that pays him $5.8 million, is 34 years old and looking for one more big payday. He’s out of camp, too. Penn gave up one sack all of last year: It came against the Colts in the 15th and the play resulted in Derek Carr breaking his leg and ruining Oakland’s season. It would be in GM Raleigh McKenzie’s best interest to get Penn signed. Next man up at LT is Marshall Newhouse, who didn’t distinguish himself playing the last two seasons for the Giants. Penn can’t help but feel shortchanged when he looks around the Raiders O-line and sees big contracts for LG Kelechi Osemele (5 years, $58.5 million), RG Gabe Jackson (5 years, $55 million) and center Rodney Hudson (5 years, $44.5 million). McKenzie signed Carr to a 5-year $125 million contract in late June. The $25 million average is the most in NFL history. He does not want Newhouse protecting Carr’s blindside