Sheesh, even Mr. Potter gave George Bailey 24 hours to talk it over with his wife.
2016 Belichick Thread: Cheater de Force
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That article also led me to this excellent background piece on Matt Patricia and his previous career, and the lengths he had to go to to follow his passion.
Makes me feel like a schlub, frankly, by comparison to people that driven.
Makes me feel like a schlub, frankly, by comparison to people that driven.
I feel like we should send an updated version of that to Rex about a week before the next time the Pats face him.
Better yet if he's on his couch.
Better yet if he's on his couch.
He has a .736 winning percentage (198-71) with the Pats. So he's basically averaged a 12 win season for a decade and a half.
So basically he's an average coach at best.
Ben McAdoo has to lose, what, 2 games in a row to have a worse winning percentage than Belicheck?
Ben McAdoo has to lose, what, 2 games in a row to have a worse winning percentage than Belicheck?
SI article referenced in there as well: http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/11/28/nfl-matt-patricia-bill-belichick-patriots-defense
"Consult your wife" can be cover for "I don't want to show my extreme enthusiasm for this job in front of my new boss". Yeesh!
Who cares? McAdoo's record should get an asterisk for the illegal use of walkie-talkies anyway.
Listen to the blatant references to "rules"...from a Jan 15 press conference:
Q: How clear cut is your understanding of the rule that was enforced when Eric Rowe got the penalty for trying to pull a guy off of the pile where a scrum had ensued? Is it a matter of a guy trying to do the right thing –
BB: What's the right thing? What are you talking about? What's the right thing?
Q: By trying to separate players from the pile…
BB: You can't do that. No, you can't do that. You can't pull players off the pile. That's not the right thing. That rule is clear cut. There's no question about it. You can't do that.
Q: Is it a clear cut teaching point for your team that when emotions get high like that they can't have mental mistakes like that?
BB: You can't do things that are defined by the rules as illegal. You can't do them, period. There's no right thing to do. The rule is the rule. You have to play the game by the rules. Obviously, we've got to do a better job of coaching it. We've got to do a better job of coaching all of the rules. We can't hold, we can't get personal fouls, we can't do things that are against the rules or we get penalized for them. There's no doing the right thing. The right thing is playing within the rules. Now football is football. Sometimes you're trying to do the right thing and you get called for something. Sometimes stuff happens. [Vincent] Valentine got his hand up a little high and pushed the facemask back of the lineman. It was a good call. I don't think it was intentional, but he did it, and didn't get it down quick enough and they called him for it. I mean that's football. As a team we've got to make good decisions and play penalty-free. That's our goal every week. The right thing is to play within the rules, period, black and white.
Q: How clear cut is your understanding of the rule that was enforced when Eric Rowe got the penalty for trying to pull a guy off of the pile where a scrum had ensued? Is it a matter of a guy trying to do the right thing –
BB: What's the right thing? What are you talking about? What's the right thing?
Q: By trying to separate players from the pile…
BB: You can't do that. No, you can't do that. You can't pull players off the pile. That's not the right thing. That rule is clear cut. There's no question about it. You can't do that.
Q: Is it a clear cut teaching point for your team that when emotions get high like that they can't have mental mistakes like that?
BB: You can't do things that are defined by the rules as illegal. You can't do them, period. There's no right thing to do. The rule is the rule. You have to play the game by the rules. Obviously, we've got to do a better job of coaching it. We've got to do a better job of coaching all of the rules. We can't hold, we can't get personal fouls, we can't do things that are against the rules or we get penalized for them. There's no doing the right thing. The right thing is playing within the rules. Now football is football. Sometimes you're trying to do the right thing and you get called for something. Sometimes stuff happens. [Vincent] Valentine got his hand up a little high and pushed the facemask back of the lineman. It was a good call. I don't think it was intentional, but he did it, and didn't get it down quick enough and they called him for it. I mean that's football. As a team we've got to make good decisions and play penalty-free. That's our goal every week. The right thing is to play within the rules, period, black and white.
He's right about one thing, it was a clear violation of the rules by Rowe and while emotions were high and maybe Rowe wasn't the instigator, but he was an idiot for doing that. Can't afford blatantly stupid moves like that the rest of the way. Holding, hands to the face, that's football, but stupid after the play stuff is critical to avoid.
"How much does playing at home in front of your fans help you?"
"I dunno. Go ask Dallas or Kansas City."
I fucking love this guy.
"I dunno. Go ask Dallas or Kansas City."
I fucking love this guy.
It really is, especially because it is such a tired line of questioning. It is also the logical inverse of his normal line about playing on the road -- where he just says something like, "the league schedules the games and we show up where they schedule 'em. That's all there is to it."
Agreed
As if there was any doubt that the Pats would be resting on laurels.
Any chance The Steelers will be planning their Super Bowl week? Doubt it, BB has used that against them once
Any chance BB is letting Dion float away on his history making 3-TD game last week? I don't think so.
The two Boston brothers who won $1 million and were constantly featured in the DraftKings commercials financed (at least some of) it.
Missed a chance to rebrand the whole thing Ballghazi again.
Four Games in Fall is kinda beaten to the punch by the 30 for 30 special on the 2004 ALCS.
Four Games in Fall is kinda beaten to the punch by the 30 for 30 special on the 2004 ALCS.