2014 BB PC Thread: Turn and look for the ball
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Post game PC starts off well with Bill wrestling the mic before saying "stupid thing" and giving up.
https://twitter.com/rapsheet/status/523141546955132928
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Bill Belichick on his schedule: “Saturday will be Saturday, Friday will be Friday, Thursday will be Thursday, Wednesday will be Wednesday.”
Ian RapoportVerified account@RapSheetBill Belichick on his schedule: “Saturday will be Saturday, Friday will be Friday, Thursday will be Thursday, Wednesday will be Wednesday.”
.......It was a good play.......deceptive......well executed......they did a nice job.singaporesoxfan said:
Did he drop the mic and walk out of the room after that? Because that is the only thing that could make that exchange better.
Bergs said:
The best part about the question and answer Bergs quoted is the question and answer that immediately preceded it. It's long, but I am going to quote it for full affect:
Q: How important is communication post-snap on defense in defending their route combinations?
BB: Yeah, I’d say on defense it’s almost always an awareness or a visual communication or recognition. You see a player crossing, you anticipate that based on the call maybe somebody else will take that guy. You kind of, sometimes you see it, sometimes you anticipate it. We play in front of a sold out crowd here so the idea of me yelling routes to you and you yelling them to me – that might happen on the practice field, it might sound good, but the reality of it is, you’re not hearing much on Sunday. So, you have to be able to visually communicate it without actually saying anything or in some cases, even doing anything. Just by your teammate’s body language or by the reaction you anticipate and then once you start to see that then you know that it’s happened the way you had practiced it or had talked about it happening then you’re able to adjust to it. There are a lot of different levels of communication. There’s the verbal communication, there’s certainly the signaling before the snap, whether it’s on defense or offense relative to crowd noise and so forth. On the road offensively, at home defensively, so the communication is kind of always an issue. It just depends on which side of the noise you’re on. Then there’s a post-snap communication between a quarterback and a receiver, a quarterback and a tight end [or] running back, running back and an offensive lineman, a pulling guard. Then the same thing defensively, with pass rush games, linebackers, defensive linemen, secondary players, linebackers that when you see something happen the way you’ve anticipated it then that’s kind of a communication if you will that then your assignment corresponds to that. If it doesn’t happen that way then that can sometimes be a little bit of a scramble or a void somewhere along the line somewhere that then you try to adjust and react to. But that whole process is really in the end, that’s the backbone, that’s the spinal cord of football is all that process which can be emphasized differently depending on exactly which part of it you’re talking about or where the noise is coming from, where the communication is coming from. But in the end, when you put it all together, that’s really what connects everything on the football field is communication, understanding, anticipation, reaction, being able to do all that at a high level, at high speed, in a short amount of time. That’s the hard, that’s it. If you can’t do that, it’s going to be a long day. If you can do that, then you have a chance to play at the speed, the game speed that you need to play at to win.
But...but...but... the Boston media keeps telling me that Belichick never gives them anything worthwhile or worth writing about!
Q: How much influence does Greg Schiano have when you acquire a former Buccaneer or Rutgers player?
BB: I don’t know.
Q: Do you discuss that player with him?
BB: I talk to Greg about a lot of things over the course of years.
....Just fantastic.
BB: I don’t know.
Q: Do you discuss that player with him?
BB: I talk to Greg about a lot of things over the course of years.
....Just fantastic.
Him and Pop both. Two of the best coaches ever and they both just refuse to say anything of value.
Reading that full transcript, it's clear some reporters are trying to ask good questions and they get rewarded.
In addition to the post-snap communications, here's another good one.
In addition to the post-snap communications, here's another good one.
That's what so frustrating. It doesn't seem like a big leap or daunting task to take this answer to the question about post-snap communication and combine it with his answer where he relates Manning to QBs like Marino, Montana and Elway plus his answer about Peyton being able to get the ball to the weak spot in a defense no matter what defense is called. Do that and bam! you have a piece worth reading about Manning's strengths of attacking defensive weak spots and the importance of covering up those weak spots with verbal and non-verbal communication. That doesn't seem that hard. But that involves a minor bit of work and thinking, too much to ask I guess.
What strikes me about the answers about Julius Thomas and Von Miller is that my prior impression was that Belichick was willing to go in great detail on football history and general football strategy but wouldn't say anything about this week's opposition. Which would give the press the excuse of saying "well our readers are interested in the upcoming game". These two answers show that he is willing in the right circumstances and with the right questions to discuss the upcoming opponents, as long as it's a specific question about actual football strategy.
...and it doesn't give the opposition any information. If the follow up was how do you plan on countering the different spots Von Miller lines up in, he would reply, "We'll do our best to match up with the players we have." He's always been willing to praise his upcoming opponents.
Belichick tells Mike Golic how to properly cut off the sleeves of a hoodie:
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11795538&ex_cid=sportscenterTW
http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=11795538&ex_cid=sportscenterTW
Coach Bill was also asked if, in the midst of these epic Brady-Manning showdowns, he ever "kind of steps back and just takes it all in?"SeoulSoxFan said:
"I'm not really in the stepping back mode these days."
*cue deliciously awkward nervous laughter*
Gronk is fully indoctrinated:
http://m.espn.go.com/general/blogs/blogpost?blogname=new-england-patriots&id=4771499
singaporesoxfan said:
Your initial impression was correct, it's only your read that requires a tweak.
He will give you full insight--extensively so--on anything in the public domain. So a breakdown on how a team has lined a player up, something that is widely available, is fair game; Belichick, despite national media reports to the contrary, works under the assumption that he's not smarter than everyone else and knows that other head coaches are at least medium bright and doesn't think he's offering some big tell when he points out that team X that does thing Y when team X is doing thing Y. Anything that ask after something that he might know that is not widely known--the secret information? Even if it's their record with different towel boys? Forget it.
It's actually pretty basic if you think about it.
The Indianapolis line is great. Made me laugh out loud.Super Nomario said:
I don't know why I find Belichick's media dance so hilarious. Maybe I just like deadpan humor.
Some genius should write a broadway style play about Brady and BB. Bryan Cranston can deadpan BB. Brady could be played by, I don't know, Neil Patrick Harris. (No reason for this, he's just a good actor).
Peyton manning could be played by the Debbie Downer girl from SNL.
Peyton manning could be played by the Debbie Downer girl from SNL.
LaszloKovacks said:
Not that any of this is important, but temperature alone is kind of a weak metric to use.
Question (don't know where to put this):
Just saw a stat re: Shula's wins as HC. BB would need 122 more wins. That's a solid 10 years (best case scenario, #entitledPatsfan) but obviously probably more. Does BB have that in him? Does he care?
Just saw a stat re: Shula's wins as HC. BB would need 122 more wins. That's a solid 10 years (best case scenario, #entitledPatsfan) but obviously probably more. Does BB have that in him? Does he care?
That's not a solid ten years, that'd be a spectacular ten years. From 2001-2013, the Pats averaged 12.15 wins per year. I don't see them averaging 12.2 wins over the next ten.
I believe Belichick is actually the only coach in history (just glancing down the total wins list, nobody else seems likely) to average 12+ wins for ten consecutive years, but as noted above, there isn't a chance in hell he duplicates that level of success.
I believe Belichick is actually the only coach in history (just glancing down the total wins list, nobody else seems likely) to average 12+ wins for ten consecutive years, but as noted above, there isn't a chance in hell he duplicates that level of success.
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Don Shula became a head coach at age 33 (!) and coached continuously until he was 65, spanning 33 seasons. Bill Belichick first became a head coach at age 39, and did not coach from age 43 until hired by the Pats in 2000 when he was 48. He has 20 seasons as a head coach, and he's 62. Give him another 13 seasons and I think he gives Shula a run for his money, but part of this is just a question of how young you start, and nobody but Al Davis makes someone that young a head coach. Even Gruden and Mangini were 35 their first years as HC.
That should go down in history with "Who's Karim Garcia?"Ed Hillel said:
Both lines identify what each guy is truly insecure about, and hit them where it hurts.
And lines like that work best when the speaker is perhaps the best ever at their position.