As you have seen the past few years, New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick has won three Super Bowls and has an undefeated regular season to his credit. Along with one of the best records ever in the NFL.
Now I was critical of Coach Belichick earlier in the season. I was angry that he didn't trade for a better QB instead of sticking with Matt Cassel. And seeing I am a Pats fan I could be happier to be wrong.
Cassel was really come along passing for two straight 400 yard games. Which is something that Tom Brady has never done. But watching what Belichick has done the past few years has really reminded me of Bill Walsh.
The man credited for coming up with the West Coast offense meets the man of a thousand defenses. See they are different, true, with Walsh being an offensive genius and Belichick a defensive genius, but they are one in the same.
Walsh was a San Fransico great while Belichick was and still is a New England great. They both were assistants and and both were college coaches too before becoming Head Coaches in the NFL.
But seeing Walsh before a game and Belichick before a game they are different but the same. Of course throughout the week before a game the Patriots are secretive and you never ever hear a peep of inconsistency.
It is the same with Bill Walsh's teams, you never hear much out of them before a game, they never tell you they are feed up with the coach or angry with teammates. Both have never been known to be screamers at their teams.
So you have both with happy teams, and that is a credit to the head coach. You see organizations like Cincinnati that have all these problems and they keep losing and players keep bringing their teams down with all the media they bring.
Randy Moss a man who has to have attention, a man who has to be in the spotlight. He goes to New England and you hardly ever hear from him being unhappy or saying anything negative about the Pats.
Same with Walsh's 49er group. Dion Sanders just like Moss had to be in the spotlight goes to the 49ers and just plays instead of getting in the media negatively. You have to again credit the coach for that.
Both have been heavily involved with their quarterbacks. Of course Walsh has Montana and Young and Belichick has Tom Brady and Matt Cassel. Both are one in the same again.
How many times do you hear media guys out in games say that Tom Brady reminds them of Joe Montana? And with Cassel being so mobile doesn't he look sort of like Young did earlier in his career?
Belichick is the new Bill Walsh. Walsh may be gone, but his legacy is used of course through many forms of the West Coast offense, but also through New England Coach Bill Belichick.
What do you think?
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Dracula's Buttocks has teeth 7 months ago
Bill Belichick should be awarded Coach of the Year for what he's done with this terrible, old, bad, shell shocked football team.
The Patriots are essentially the Kansas City Chiefs with Belichick at head coach. Talent wise, they are one of the five least talented teams in football.
Belichick is a genius who has gotten this god-awful, old, slow team to overachieve themselves into a position of respectability (7-5).
Without Belichick the Pats would likely win 2 to 4 games (with or without Tom Brady). They are a flat-out awful team!
So what if Belichick is a despicable cheating louse. He knows how to get the most out of his teams.
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Joe Burgett 7 months ago
Well I don't think they would be doing well without Belichick too, but to say they would be just as ba with Brady is off base. Remember last year? On egame away from a perfect season. If Brady was healthy and playing now, they may be having 2 or 3 loses at worst.
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Steve Frith 7 months ago
Belichick is a miracle worker for designing entire game plans around a single person, namely the QB. Last season when he had Brady throwing to Moss and Welker, he used the WR's talents and made the game plans around them. It's a different story this year...I think he wanted to do more of the run game, but injuries dictated otherwise. He'll be remembered as one of, if not the, greatest coaches of all times. He's taken a broken team this season that's riddled with injuries, and has coached them to a winning season (thus far). Luckily, there's enough talent left on the team that all hope isn't lost (vrable, bruschi, seymore, wilfork, welker, moss, faulk, the entire D line and O line....even the rookie mayo), it's just that not everyone thinks that these guys are talented.....LOL!
Good article and good comparisons on both sides...makes one wonder!
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Joe Burgett 7 months ago
You said everything perfectly there, glad you liked it
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Helen Medmim 7 months ago
randy moss a man that always has to have the spotlight? you need to get your facts straight...he doesn't even talk to the media unless the league sends him a letter saying we're going to fine you...maybe t.o. and chad ocho cinco...but not moss...sorry you don't know what you're talking about..you're just writing based on things u hear from the media...not on the facts....
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Joe Burgett 7 months ago
WOH maybe you should get your straight, Moss was vocal in Oakland and Minnesota before being traded. Now I'll give you TO and Chad Ocho Cinco being worse but Moss has been a problem with other teams before. Maybe you just never noticed it because others were worse. He even got arrested, rememeber what he did in Greeen Bay, he went in the media right afterwards and talked about it. Remember him leaving a game while it was going on? I think it is a problem that was publicized.
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Helen Medmim 7 months ago
how is that needing the spotlight....there's a difference between getting attention and wanting it...your arguments have no base
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Joe Burgett 7 months ago
ph so your saying when Mass acted like his was showing his bare but to Green Bay's crowd he really didn't want that attention it just happened? No he wanted it, believe me
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Helen Medmim 7 months ago
um no actually....if you had heard tony dungy's interview, you would know that the green bay packers fans show their bare asses to the visiting team's buses especially division rivals; so when the packers were heavily favored and the vikings ended up winning big that was moss' way of saying who's laughing now...camera or no camera you can't help but want to rub that in....at least he wasn't really mooning anyone like the fans were
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Joe Burgett 7 months ago
true he wasn't really doing it, but you do have to realize he wanted attention from the fans nd camera's got involved in it, and he was realy scrutinized by the league for it. He has done more than people think he has, but since arriving in New England you never hear from him, nor does he do anything contreversial anymore, like pretend to moon the fans
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