Belichick Interview

by fansince83 on Nov 7, 2009 9:41 AM EST

Here is a great interview by Jason Cole with Bill Belichick. I know he's the enemy, but he also does a great job coaching the enemy. Here's the link: http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news?slug=jc-belichickqa110609&prov=yhoo&type=lgns.

Here's a couple of quotes I thought were great:

"I think to have a really good team in this league, you have to make a lot, a lot of good decisions. You have to have a lot of good people, players, coaches, whatever. You need a lot of those. Conversely, to not be competitive, you would have to have a lot of bad decisions. One bad decision is not going to do it, one bad player is not going to do it, one bad coach is not going to do it."

"Jimmy (Johnson) probably said the same thing to you that he once said to me: “You’re really only competing with about 10 teams a year. If you just say out of the way, the other 20 teams will screw it up themselves. Whether it’s ownership or personnel or coaching or some combination of factors.”

It almost feels like he could be talking directly about Buffalo in the interview (or Oakland, Kansas City, St. Louis, etc).

Just another great fan opinion shared on the pages of BuffaloRumblings.com.

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well he noted hes talking about 20 teams

i know it seems like we are the only problem team in the league but thats just becuase we only care about this team. We are just one of twenty teams hes talking about:

With about ten teams being competitive every year it sounds like hes referring to a group of ten organizations that are almost always constantly competitve and then accounting for flukes that replace one or two of them on down years: (Bengals this year, Dolphins last year, Cardinals last year). These teams have just been better run this decade:

Titans, Chargers, Patriots, Colts, Ravens, Steelers, Giants, Eagles, Cowboys, Broncos

To me, the sucker is the person who runs when there’s trouble, especially when this situation was so easily foreshadowed….

by poz on Nov 7, 2009 12:33 PM EST reply actions

favorite Belichick story

And really one that forced me to respect him was one of the years he was the AFC probowl coach. And had Tony Gonzalez covering kickoff returns. Gonzalez missed a tackle and Belichick called him over to the sidelines and chewed him out. He was furious even though it was the probowl. Next kickoff Gonzalez lights up the returner. That’s a hell of a coach that can motivate and improve a player, who he has for one meaningless game.

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by pasaluki on Nov 7, 2009 3:04 PM EST reply actions

My favorite story about Bellichick has nothing to do with his professional career. There was a piece ESPN did on him, and it was one of the most engaging things i’ve ever read. The story dove into a situation where a peson was in a serious accident and Bellichick was the only person to stop and help – to stay, while emergency crews arrived. I gained alot of respect for him after reading that feature.

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by TheAfghanTwilight on Nov 9, 2009 10:20 AM EST up reply actions