Cataloguing the Laws of Belichick

[simplyeric]

From the man himself, but more generally on leadership vs. coaching per se.

Leadership means...


Looking at his numbers at NE, finishing 1st in the AFC East 14 of 17 years. Just...wow.

And, as a bonus, 4 career lessons he wants millenials to know (including his own kids)

Put away your social media, and put your energy into building real relationships

SoSH as a whole isn’t sure quite how to process this one...
(Says guy posting from a bar on a Tuesday)

 

[simplyeric]

Quite sure that's right.

This is the only clip I could find but it's not great. . First down was exactly the 30 since it followed a touchback.

It’s funny. In my memory I feel like I build up how dumb a spot that was, and I think ‘well when I watch the video I’ll realize it was a tough call’ and then I watch it and I’m like ‘WTF he totally had the 1st down.
It’s like the opposite of how I remember the Dave Roberts play?

 

[simplyeric]

Ok three posts in a row, sorry, but I never even noticed this trash before, somehow.

Anyway, I feel like people haven’t commented as much as I had expected on ‘Do Your Job’.

This is a combination of ‘do what you’ve been assigned to do’ but also ‘don’t do what you haven’t been assigned to do’.

Don’t freelance (It’s Polomalu!), don’t take decoy plays off, etc.

 

[InstaFace]

No better place to put this, if you need more Belichick in your life this week.


I doubt there's a regular poster on this board who hasn't watched it, but pats fans won't mind revisiting it, either. Well, maybe the playoff game, but it's made worthwhile by the rest.

 

[streeter88]

From the man himself, but more generally on leadership vs. coaching per se.

Leadership means...


Looking at his numbers at NE, finishing 1st in the AFC East 14 of 17 years. Just...wow.

And, as a bonus, 4 career lessons he wants millenials to know (including his own kids)

That video was great when it first came out, great to see it again in the down time before AFCCG.

 

[Curt S Loew]

Ok three posts in a row, sorry, but I never even noticed this trash before, somehow.

Anyway, I feel like people haven’t commented as much as I had expected on ‘Do Your Job’.

This is a combination of ‘do what you’ve been assigned to do’ but also ‘don’t do what you haven’t been assigned to do’.

Don’t freelance (It’s Polomalu!), don’t take decoy plays off, etc.

As BB said in "Do your job", "Maybe the one word that isn't in that's implied is 'Do your job ... well," "It could be enough to make the difference." I may have watched that a few times.

 

[Norm Siebern]

Indirect look at the laws of Belichick by looking at his father's scouting rules:

https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/01/16/scouting-new-england-patriots-using-steve-belichicks-scouting-manual

Fantastic article. I so admire professionalism in the actions of people at their own jobs. I love to read accounts like this and then think how I could apply these characteristics in my own work. Thanks for the link.

 

[edmunddantes]

Link

“He’s really built a complete program here,” Belichick said to Savage.

Belichick’s Browns established what they called three “critical factors” for every position, the non-negotiable criteria players needed in order to perform the jobs coaches will ask of them. Cornerbacks, for example, needed to be able to tackle, play the ball in the deep part of the field and play man-to-man. They added in height/weight/speed preferences: 6-feet, 180 pounds, run less than 4.5. “The greatest impact for me, even though we stayed friends for a long time, was systemically learning about evaluating personnel for four years,” Saban says.

Look up and down the Alabama roster, and nearly every cornerback fits this rubric. Belichick, in putting together a roster under a salary cap, has to compromise in some areas (height is one), but he too adheres to the critical factors theory. When the Browns relocated, becoming the Ravens, Ozzie Newsome and Savage turned this same idea of three critical factors into “Triangles of Success.”

Really great article.

 

[kenneycb]

Action Jack should get some royalties from Newsome and Savage for that.

 

[mostman]

No better place to put this, if you need more Belichick in your life this week.


I doubt there's a regular poster on this board who hasn't watched it, but pats fans won't mind revisiting it, either. Well, maybe the playoff game, but it's made worthwhile by the rest.

"Play 60 minutes of Defense! You understand that!?" - One of my all time favorites.

 

[williams_482]

I know it seems ridiculous to blame him for this when no other HC in football would have had the guts (or the intellect) to make the right decision on 4th down in the first place. But this is a very rare case where he obviously had not thought things through ahead of time. I know I can't have been the only one here who was thinking "four-down territory" as soon as the offense went on the field.

What's really odd about this is that A Football Life shows us BB telling Bill O'Brien to be ready for 4th down before the 3rd down play is run. If anything, the problem was a failure to communicate that to the punt team.

 

[allstonite]

As BB said in "Do your job", "Maybe the one word that isn't in that's implied is 'Do your job ... well," "It could be enough to make the difference." I may have watched that a few times.

One thing I remember that always stuck with me was something I think Rosevelt Colvin said on T&R was Bill won't get on you for physical shortcomings. If you follow directions and the scheme and do what you're told but you get burned he won't be angry. Chris Johnson and Ladanian Tomlinson are faster than most people. Not much you can do. But if you try to freelance or make a mental error and get burned he'll have that clip queued up in the film room in front of everyone.