BB is still undefeated in the playoffs when facing a team for the first time that season.
Think about that.
Think about that.
Not sure how a game plan that is literally in the Hall of Fame isn't getting more love. I know we're a Pats board, but...
http://mmqb.si.com/2014/05/14/nfl-history-in-95-objects-bill-belichick-super-xxv-game-plan/
http://mmqb.si.com/2014/05/14/nfl-history-in-95-objects-bill-belichick-super-xxv-game-plan/
Just rewatching this on YT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEc-yI2kTT0
Gill Santos' "Edelman looks just like Welker" comment (as the then-rookie returns a punt for a TD in a PS game) and the subsequent "Wally Pipp" comment from BB to Welker turned out to be quite prescient.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEc-yI2kTT0
Gill Santos' "Edelman looks just like Welker" comment (as the then-rookie returns a punt for a TD in a PS game) and the subsequent "Wally Pipp" comment from BB to Welker turned out to be quite prescient.
Right now. As we scramble to hold on to very valuable players, almost certain to lose at least one. With the Jets sitting on $55 million in cap room, the Eagles $50 million, and so forth.
The last 15 years don't happen without a solid owner, a HOF coach AND a HOF QB who plays a long time.
It is so enormously difficult in the current environment, and it starts with BB. May never see anything quite like this again and certainly no time soon.
The last 15 years don't happen without a solid owner, a HOF coach AND a HOF QB who plays a long time.
It is so enormously difficult in the current environment, and it starts with BB. May never see anything quite like this again and certainly no time soon.
We did this poll before his Saturday Shinebox presser, right? I think I'd change my vote to that.
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Absolutely. I just finished watching the Super Bowl DVD and I irrationally want every single player signed for the length of their football playing lives. Living it must make those bonds so much deeper. The ability to be dispassionate when the time calls for it and make hard decisions in the best interest of the team must be just so difficult, especially since he also coaches these guys.
I actually didn't know about -- or at least didn't remember and appreciate the significance of -- them keeping 4 QBs in 2000 until I recently watched the Brady 6 doc.
I'm kind of curious how rare something like that was back around 2000, because to me it seems like in today's NFL that would be almost unthinkable. I know somewhere along the line the rules about having a third QB were changed, so there were injury related circumstances where you could do it without taking a roster spot, and maybe back in those days it was less unusual, but kind of curious. Because, for a head coach in his first year with a franchise, it's hard to imagine how anything else could come close if this is as rare as I think it is.
I'm kind of curious how rare something like that was back around 2000, because to me it seems like in today's NFL that would be almost unthinkable. I know somewhere along the line the rules about having a third QB were changed, so there were injury related circumstances where you could do it without taking a roster spot, and maybe back in those days it was less unusual, but kind of curious. Because, for a head coach in his first year with a franchise, it's hard to imagine how anything else could come close if this is as rare as I think it is.
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Yeah I think before the last CBA, there was a "3rd quarterback" designation where the guy wasn't technically on the active 46, but could enter the game if both the starting QB and backup got injured or had to leave the game. It was a weird, anomalous situation about the 53/46 roster thing, and they got rid of it a few years ago. So before then, it was routine for teams to carry 3 quarterbacks and have one technically on the roster but unable to enter games. So carrying 4 was unique, but not as bizarre as it would be today.
Curran: "My kids want to know that, now that you're going to be in the coaches' picture, are you going to be in the Madden game?"
BB: "What Madden game? You'll have to ask John about that."
Random reporter: "Do you get a lot of these coaches' meetings?"
BB: "No."
I think the "you'll have to ask John about that" is my favorite quote in a while. Worthy of a thread title change imho.
BB: "What Madden game? You'll have to ask John about that."
Random reporter: "Do you get a lot of these coaches' meetings?"
BB: "No."
I think the "you'll have to ask John about that" is my favorite quote in a while. Worthy of a thread title change imho.
Just dawned on me that Tyler Gaffney, who was on the Patriots in 2014 but didn't play at all, is the Stanford stud RB from 2013. He rushed for 1709 YDS., 5.2 YPC that year. Just 15 passes caught though. 4.49 40, not bad. I watched quite a few Stanford games that year. He ran like a man among boys, OK, college level, mostly PAC 12. I'd like to see him get a real chance in the Pats backfield in 2015. Too big for a Shane Vereen type roll? He is fast and quick though.
Gaffney was an impact player on a good Stanford team.Al Zarilla said:
I agree that he may take the Vereen role next year or share it with White.
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Ed Hillel said:
I think you're looking for the BB press conference thread.
He had some funny, dismissive lines this morning, but I'm not sure they amount to all-time decisions on BB's part.
edit: added link
This is literally all I could think of after reading Gary Myers' stream of Tweets.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je29zLtYyGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Je29zLtYyGw
And here we have Bingo as to why the press loves to hate BB and why they crap on the Pats whenever they possibly can. He doesn't make their job easy- he doesn't fill their notebook, he doesn't compliment them on their terrible questions and doesn't give them any back channel info either. The press hates him for the same reasons most NFL fans hate him- sour grapes and butthurt feelings.
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I love when he passive-aggressively calls someone(s) a fucking idiot, without really saying it in so many words. Like how "disappointed" he was to hear that the league didn't have the money to pay for the fixed cameras he proposed, per John Mara's comments on the matter. I think that's one of the really enjoyable parts of his performance art.
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cornwalls@6 said:
It takes credibility, confidence and gravitas to pull off "dismissive and disrespectful" as well as BB does. It's not surprising he's unique among his peers in that ability: most coaches lack one of those, or all three. Meanwhile, Bill knows that his boss would sooner wrestle an alligator than fire him over anything short of a felony, and rightly so.
Rex, for example, and the Tuna before him, had credibility and even gravitas, but they were/are so emotionally needy and insecure that they couldn't bear the thought of the press not loving them. Belichick bears that thought very easily indeed. He's probably already slept with Volin's girlfriend out of sheer spite for wasting his time, and had Tom Curran's kids forced into hard labor before they force Curran to ask him any more dumb questions.
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From his Twitter bio: "coming Aug. 25, 2015: Brady vs. Manning." So the guy is writing a book about Brady v. Manning. I have to wonder if Bill told him where he could shove his questions about Brady and Manning and that's where some of this crying is coming from.
Myers has been bitching and moaning about Belichick not being nice to reporters since BB's last press conference as HC of the NYJ, if not earlier. We get it, Gary--he makes you all wait around and then refuses to give good quote. What a monster.mwonow said:
Dotrat said:
He covers NY sports. OF COURSE HE HATES BELICHICK. They all do. They'll never get over his telling the Jets to go fuck themselves.
Astounding. I am cracking up at the idea of BB trying to seduce someone.MentalDisabldLst said:
That's a nice dress. Real nice.
Trying to reframe as many of these as I can in the context of BB seducing a broad. In any case, an enjoyable trip down memory lane:
http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Bill+Belichick
http://www.quotesdaddy.com/author/Bill+Belichick
Opening:We didnt kiss like we should have, When your kissing against someone like Ben you need to do better job. There was alot of tongue, too much tongue. The effort wasnt there. It was going through the motions which is my and the coaches fault. We need to be better kissers in all 3 phases Lips tongue and embrace.
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Astounding. I am cracking up at the idea of BB trying to seduce someone.MentalDisabldLst said:
That's a nice dress. Real nice.
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o you feel having mints wouldve helped?A: We kiss in the moment.
Q:What about more focus on earlobes? Would that have helped?
A:I dont know. We are On to Foreplay.
Roto -- BB best GM for the second year running; Ozzie No. 2:
http://www.rotoworld.com/articles/nfl/53473/57/nfls-best-gms-2015?pg=1
Just one of many opinions, but I'd send this to Don Shula if I could.
http://www.rotoworld.com/articles/nfl/53473/57/nfls-best-gms-2015?pg=1
Just one of many opinions, but I'd send this to Don Shula if I could.
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And a happy 63rd Birthday to everyone's favorite party animal, Bill Belichick. May he continue to coach the Pats past Marv Levy's age record of 72. The grass isn't any greener - for us or for him - in any other direction.
edit: the Pats posted a happy-birthday video.
edit: the Pats posted a happy-birthday video.
NFL Network acknowledged it, and showed the "we"re on to Cincinnati clip", editing out everything except the "expect a tough game from Cincinnati", "we're on the Cincinnati", and his other 10 or 12 Cincinnati mentions. And they show his dour face from that night through the whole thing. But at least they acknowledged it. Erin Coscarelli said Happy Birthday Bill, to sort of (+) it up at the end.MentalDisabldLst said:
So is he going to update his boat to VI Rings, or is he gonna have to get a bigger boat?
A bigger boat would not make him a better football coach or the team to win more games, therefore there is zero reason for him to get a bigger boat.MainerInExile said:
At least that's how I assume all of Bills decisions are made.
The Tuna is retired, and the tattoo'd whale has moved to the Great Lakes...( . ) ( . ) and (_!_) said:
If man is V, and the devil is VI, then God is VII...
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He picked a scrawny Tom Brady over several more muscle bound QB prospects. He knows bigger is not always better.
