Would You Pay $25K to Have Dinner With Bill Belichick?

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If he would answer every question I asked him honestly, I would do it. There'd be more than enough inside information to write a book or sell to the media to cover my cost and more. I think the reality is these booster things are for the uber rich. What is more fun is to make them comparable to everyone.

What percentage of your yearly salary (or total income) would you spend to have dinner with Bill?
I don't think I'd spend 1%, I would consider 0.25-0.5% for a one on one dinner.
 

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How much would someone have to pay you to sit to an interview and you’d have to answer every question honestly?

it’d be more than $25k for me
So let's say we take out personal life questions and made it only about my job/career or in his case about football, the patriots, coaching. I'd do that for $25k.
 

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I’d sign over the deed to my house to BB to get the real answer on Malcolm Butler’s SB benching.
 

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If I had some idea that he’d be honest and was rich then yeah, actually I might. First off I just say thanks, what an astonishing run.

Don’t really care what he thinks about general stuff much but I would love to know about Malcolm Butler, I’d love to know if he looks back and thinks he stuck with a two gap defense too long, and did he learn anything from the last couple years that would make him a better coach.

He does seem to have finally found a way to connect with young people.
 

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Everyone keeps saying they would want to ask him all the memoir questions—why’d you bench Malcolm, etc.—he’d obviously never answer. But aren’t there countless other things you’d want to ask him? Like::

1) Did you think you made it on 4th and ?

2) Which player surprised you’re the most because you thought they were getting cut and they turned out to be a longtime Patriot?

3) Which player that didn’t work out do you wish you had a do-over with?

4) What was the most satisfying regular season win you had coaching the Patriots?

5) Who was the best assistant coach who ever coached for you and why?

I mean, $25K is a lot of money. But if you’re some aging fan with a certain amount of fuck you money—think Ed O’Neill’s character in Modern Family—this feels like it could be a pretty good 70th birthday present or something.
 

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Everyone keeps saying they would want to ask him all the memoir questions—why’d you bench Malcolm, etc.—he’d obviously never answer. But aren’t there countless other things you’d want to ask him? Like::

1) Did you think you made it on 4th and ?

2) Which player surprised you’re the most because you thought they were getting cut and they turned out to be a longtime Patriot?

3) Which player that didn’t work out do you wish you had a do-over with?

4) What was the most satisfying regular season win you had coaching the Patriots?

5) Who was the best assistant coach who ever coached for you and why?

I mean, $25K is a lot of money. But if you’re some aging fan with a certain amount of fuck you money—think Ed O’Neill’s character in Modern Family—this feels like it could be a pretty good 70th birthday present or something.
There's another question between 2 and 3 - along the lines of which player are you most surprised didn't work out? It could be the same answer as 3 (e.g., N'Keal Harry), or 3 could have an answer like Nick Chubb instead of Sony Michel.
 

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There's another question between 2 and 3 - along the lines of which player are you most surprised didn't work out? It could be the same answer as 3 (e.g., N'Keal Harry), or 3 could have an answer like Nick Chubb instead of Sony Michel.
And Hobbs on an island vs 6’6 Plaxico. That might have been the easiest read of Eli’s career.
 

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And Hobbs on an island vs 6’6 Plaxico. That might have been the easiest read of Eli’s career.
Yes, there is a line of questioning needed to probe into biggest in-game coaching regrets (which could include Butler, doubt it includes 4th and 2, going for 4th and 7 or 10 or whatever it was in the Scottish Game, etc.).
 

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Maybe if I was somehow involved in football, such that I had some knowledge and we could have an actual conversation. Otherwise the "questions I would ask" sound more like an interview than a good time at dinner. I suspect that most of us know so little about football that it would be like having dinner with Einstein.
 

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Everyone keeps saying they would want to ask him all the memoir questions—why’d you bench Malcolm, etc.—he’d obviously never answer. But aren’t there countless other things you’d want to ask him? Like::

1) Did you think you made it on 4th and ?

2) Which player surprised you’re the most because you thought they were getting cut and they turned out to be a longtime Patriot?

3) Which player that didn’t work out do you wish you had a do-over with?

4) What was the most satisfying regular season win you had coaching the Patriots?

5) Who was the best assistant coach who ever coached for you and why?

I mean, $25K is a lot of money. But if you’re some aging fan with a certain amount of fuck you money—think Ed O’Neill’s character in Modern Family—this feels like it could be a pretty good 70th birthday present or something.
Not that he’d answer, but the only question I’d ask is “Talk me through your evaluation of Brady from 2018 through 2019 and why didn’t you think it was worthwhile to give him as big of a deal as he wanted?”
 

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If I had to drop 25K I'd rather sit down with Brady. BB is not going to say anything interesting, but Brady is so larger than life that just sitting with him for dinner would be an experience. Brady would recognize the value to the fan and just tell you some stories about his life or the team that no one ever heard and make it worthwhile.
 

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If I had to drop 25K I'd rather sit down with Brady. BB is not going to say anything interesting, but Brady is so larger than life that just sitting with him for dinner would be an experience. Brady would recognize the value to the fan and just tell you some stories about his life or the team that no one ever heard and make it worthwhile.
This tracks.
 

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This tracks.
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If I had to drop 25K I'd rather sit down with Brady. BB is not going to say anything interesting, but Brady is so larger than life that just sitting with him for dinner would be an experience. Brady would recognize the value to the fan and just tell you some stories about his life or the team that no one ever heard and make it worthwhile.
$25k is not getting Brady. https://www.athletespeakers.com/speaker?category=&fee=&locations=Massachusetts-MA&team=. These are ballparks, but pretty much what we pay for corporate events booking athletes. It takes $50k+ to get Ortiz for example