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In honor of his latest innovations in football tactics, I'd like to crowdsource from SoSH a list of your favorite moments of in-game or related-to-the-game brilliance by The Hoodie. Adjustments, matchups, drafting, trades, play calls, or just something that made you say "what the Belichick?". Where has he most earned his generous paycheck?
I'd like to keep this to stuff affecting actual games, so things like press-conference gold, or Posnanski's story of him coaching the Pro Bowl and telling Tony Gonzalez "why don't you fuckin' block somebody, Gonzalez?", while entertaining, aren't candidates for this list. Maybe we can have a separate off-the-field thread some other time.
My nominations to kick it off (a few of them I had to look up the details):
* The intentional safety in the 2003 game at Denver. Down by 1, on our own ~10 yard line, with 3 minutes left in the 4th, the offense was going nowhere. It was 4th and 11, and our field position was shit. BB instructs LS Lonnie Paxton to hike the ball into the field goal uprights, giving Denver a safety, but also making it a 3 point game and letting Ken Walter free-kick the shit out of the ball, downing Denver at their own 15. A 3-and-out later, we get the ball at our 42, with a short field to drive for the tying FG. But Brady makes a great passes to Faulk from the edge of FG range, and we end up getting the TD instead. Victory, 30-26. Incidentally, this was the moment that I realized BB was so much smarter than I was that I should basically never question him ever again.
* Making Troy Brown a defensive back throughout most of the 2004 season. I had forgotten that we had had serious injuries to Law and Poole that season - I just figured Asante Samuel had emerged and won the job. His most glorious moment as a result of this experience was on offense, though, when he turned into a CB again in the playoff game vs San Diego, stripping the ball from the safety after a 4th-down interception appeared to seal victory for the Chargers.
* Winning the toss in overtime and taking the wind, vs the Broncos last year. Because it was the right thing to do, goddamnit (just like 4th-and-2).
* The Vinatieri touchdown pass, to Troy Brown in St Louis in 2004. Because St Louis didn't see that Brown didn't fully leave the field, so fuck 'em, that's why. "I don't think that was the trickiest thing in the world," Martz said. "I mean, where was he going, to the john? We've got to pay more attention than that."
* "Vrabel - Eligible". Nuff said. Eight passes caught, eight touchdowns. One of them in the super bowl vs John Fox and Carolina.
* BB's gameplan to beat the Bills and Jim Kelly in the 1990 super bowl, written on a napkin on the flight back from SF, is now in the hall of fame. I was too young to have watched that game, but I'd be interested to know what his defense did in that game (besides "have Lawrence Taylor on the team") to be worthy of such an honor.
What others come to mind over the years?
I'd like to keep this to stuff affecting actual games, so things like press-conference gold, or Posnanski's story of him coaching the Pro Bowl and telling Tony Gonzalez "why don't you fuckin' block somebody, Gonzalez?", while entertaining, aren't candidates for this list. Maybe we can have a separate off-the-field thread some other time.
My nominations to kick it off (a few of them I had to look up the details):
* The intentional safety in the 2003 game at Denver. Down by 1, on our own ~10 yard line, with 3 minutes left in the 4th, the offense was going nowhere. It was 4th and 11, and our field position was shit. BB instructs LS Lonnie Paxton to hike the ball into the field goal uprights, giving Denver a safety, but also making it a 3 point game and letting Ken Walter free-kick the shit out of the ball, downing Denver at their own 15. A 3-and-out later, we get the ball at our 42, with a short field to drive for the tying FG. But Brady makes a great passes to Faulk from the edge of FG range, and we end up getting the TD instead. Victory, 30-26. Incidentally, this was the moment that I realized BB was so much smarter than I was that I should basically never question him ever again.
* Making Troy Brown a defensive back throughout most of the 2004 season. I had forgotten that we had had serious injuries to Law and Poole that season - I just figured Asante Samuel had emerged and won the job. His most glorious moment as a result of this experience was on offense, though, when he turned into a CB again in the playoff game vs San Diego, stripping the ball from the safety after a 4th-down interception appeared to seal victory for the Chargers.
* Winning the toss in overtime and taking the wind, vs the Broncos last year. Because it was the right thing to do, goddamnit (just like 4th-and-2).
* The Vinatieri touchdown pass, to Troy Brown in St Louis in 2004. Because St Louis didn't see that Brown didn't fully leave the field, so fuck 'em, that's why. "I don't think that was the trickiest thing in the world," Martz said. "I mean, where was he going, to the john? We've got to pay more attention than that."
* "Vrabel - Eligible". Nuff said. Eight passes caught, eight touchdowns. One of them in the super bowl vs John Fox and Carolina.
* BB's gameplan to beat the Bills and Jim Kelly in the 1990 super bowl, written on a napkin on the flight back from SF, is now in the hall of fame. I was too young to have watched that game, but I'd be interested to know what his defense did in that game (besides "have Lawrence Taylor on the team") to be worthy of such an honor.
What others come to mind over the years?
