Bill Bellichick

[kuyyo_morro]

https://www.si.com/nfl/2018/01/31/bill-belichick-early-years-new-england-patriots

Great article. Always fascinated by the mental part of the game, strategies. Refreshing than beat the man across you bull crap.


Prior to a Jets matchup, for example, item No. 1 might be that on third down, defensive backs make a concerted effort to hit Wayne Chrebet in the slot. That was his “money down,” and knocking him off his route would significantly derail the comfort and rhythm of the offense. Before a Chiefs game? Double Tony Gonzalez in the red zone. Belichick would finish his session with a guarantee: If you do these things, you will win the game.

 

[kuyyo_morro]

 

[yimyammer]

“We blew the doors off of them,” Johnson says. “We were so aggressive in that game. We blitzed a lot. I mean, we knocked out Chris Chandler, who we used to call ‘Chris Chandelier’ because he got hurt a lot. We got to him all day.”

 

[yimyammer]

The day after Belichick was announced as head coach, the team’s strength and conditioning coach was let go. Less than two weeks later, five-time Pro Bowl tight end Ben Coates was cut alongside six-time Pro Bowl offensive tackle Bruce Armstrong. Coates would go on to play one more year, with the Ravens, and Armstrong would retire. Terry Allen, the team’s leading rusher in Carroll’s last season, was let go in February. Three other players accepted free agent offers elsewhere.

It was, players said, an atmosphere of endless tension. It led to physical, violent practices—football Darwinism—where anyone interested in keeping a roster spot would have to prove it on a daily basis.

what a concept!

 

[nightrain]

BB is the Zen Master of the NFL. His players are so disciplined that you rarely even hear anything from them about the Patriots after they leave the team.

 

[Stryker44]

How does he manage to tap that?

 

[atlantacowboy]

BB is the Zen Master of the NFL. His players are so disciplined that you rarely even hear anything from them about the Patriots after they leave the team.

Exactly, "shut up and do your job" is ingrained in their team culture. Its the Patriots way.............as we continue to meander through the fog of garret's process.

 

[diefree666]

Exactly, "shut up and do your job" is ingrained in their team culture. Its the Patriots way.............as we continue to meander through the fog of garret's process.

sickening when you compare garrets 'process' to BB's 'process'

 

[kuyyo_morro]

ROSS TUCKER, Patriots offensive lineman, 2005-06: “We are having a lot of issues with the snaps from center. Guys are dropping snaps. The quarterback-center exchange is not going well. Belichick comes up to all of us, Brady included, before a practice and says, ‘Hey guys, I played center, and I sucked. But I could at least snap the ball to the quarterback, and we could at least have a smooth exchange. So from now on, every time the exchange is bad, we are running.’ Bill Belichick doesn’t yell at you. He just says it like a jerk. There’s no other way to describe it.

“Brady took it, I felt like, as if Belichick was just talking to him. At the time, there were four centers. Dan Koppen was hurt, so it was Russ Hochstein, Gene Mruczkiwski, myself and Dan Stevenson. I will never forget: every time I was at center, Brady would look at me in the huddle and he’d say, ‘All right, Ross. You and me first. It starts with a great snap.’ Even though they asked Brady to do literally everything in an offense, in terms of re-declaring protections, re-declaring the Mike [linebacker], all that stuff. This was before he would call the play. I would look at him, and I didn’t say this, but in my head, I was like, ‘OK Tom! This is going to be a great snap!’ Like a little boy. At this point, I am 26 years old; this was my sixth year in the NFL; I had started 24 games, all that stuff.

“Everywhere else I had been, the snap is sort of like the most mundane thing you do. We’ve been doing this since we were 8; no big deal. But I guess it was the way he looked at me. Brady did not want a good snap. He did not want a great snap. He wanted a perfect snap. There’s a sound it makes when you have a perfect snap. It’s like a perfect clap. You know if you sit there and you clap a couple times? All right that’s an OK clap; that’s a really good clap; and then there is bam, a perfect clap. Brady wanted that sound.”

 

[kuyyo_morro]

Michael Lombardi sheds new light on why Bill Belichick didn’t call time out at end of Super Bowl XLIX

I know this is the wrong Super Bowl to breakdown at this point in time, but former New England Patriots executive Michael Lombardi just shared some insight about the 2014 Patriots on The Rich Eisen show that I thought was worth sharing.

Lombardi gave a concrete and justifiable reason why Patriots head coach Bill Belichick didn’t call a time out at the end of Super Bowl XLIX against the Seattle Seahawks.

For context, since Super Bowl XLIX was a lifetime ago, the Seahawks were driving against the Patriots and had the ball on the goal line, looking to score. If Seattle scored, there likely wouldn’t be enough time for the Patriots to respond.

So when Belichick dialed up a goal line defense against the Seahawks and let the clock run, people scratched their head. Lombardi explained Belichick’s decision:
“When I first joined the Patriots in ‘14, they had just lost to Denver in a playoff game,” Lombardi said, “and one of the things that they were really bad [at] that season was in the red zone [and] goal line defense. So Belichick was obsessed with trying to find a goal line defense that could stop the run. And so that became the three corner defense. That defense was practiced all spring, was practiced all during the fall, never called until the Malcolm Butler interception play.”

“Get out of here,” Eisen interjected.

“This is true, Rich,” Lombardi continued. “This is true. So when you hear Pete Carroll, people say, well [you have] Marshawn Lynch, it [throwing the ball] was the dumbest play of all time. Why wouldn’t you run the ball? They couldn’t have run the ball. It was a goal line defense. Marshawn Lynch would have lost a yard on the play.

“So when Pete Carroll says they’re in goal line, he sees the goal line front, but they’re in goal line [with] three corners- first time they ran it all year- and Belichick didn’t want to give them time to adjust to what they saw on the field, so that’s why he let the clock play out.” And there it is. The Patriots called a defensive package that they hadn’t used all season to defend against the Seahawks goal line offense and a play that the Patriots had been practicing to stop. This is where coaching plays such a big role in the strategy of the game.

How often will a coach use a defense that hadn’t been used all year at the most crucial point in the year? It would probably take a coach that uses plays from 13 years ago to feel confident making the decision.

Fortunately for the Patriots, Belichick’s gamble paid off- and Lombardi gives the best reasoning why the head coach was willing to push his chips all in at the goal line.

 

[kuyyo_morro]

 

[atlantacowboy]

ROSS TUCKER, Patriots offensive lineman, 2005-06: “We are having a lot of issues with the snaps from center. Guys are dropping snaps. The quarterback-center exchange is not going well. Belichick comes up to all of us, Brady included, before a practice and says, ‘Hey guys, I played center, and I sucked. But I could at least snap the ball to the quarterback, and we could at least have a smooth exchange. So from now on, every time the exchange is bad, we are running.’ Bill Belichick doesn’t yell at you. He just says it like a jerk. There’s no other way to describe it.

“Brady took it, I felt like, as if Belichick was just talking to him. At the time, there were four centers. Dan Koppen was hurt, so it was Russ Hochstein, Gene Mruczkiwski, myself and Dan Stevenson. I will never forget: every time I was at center, Brady would look at me in the huddle and he’d say, ‘All right, Ross. You and me first. It starts with a great snap.’ Even though they asked Brady to do literally everything in an offense, in terms of re-declaring protections, re-declaring the Mike [linebacker], all that stuff. This was before he would call the play. I would look at him, and I didn’t say this, but in my head, I was like, ‘OK Tom! This is going to be a great snap!’ Like a little boy. At this point, I am 26 years old; this was my sixth year in the NFL; I had started 24 games, all that stuff.

“Everywhere else I had been, the snap is sort of like the most mundane thing you do. We’ve been doing this since we were 8; no big deal. But I guess it was the way he looked at me. Brady did not want a good snap. He did not want a great snap. He wanted a perfect snap. There’s a sound it makes when you have a perfect snap. It’s like a perfect clap. You know if you sit there and you clap a couple times? All right that’s an OK clap; that’s a really good clap; and then there is bam, a perfect clap. Brady wanted that sound.”

Its like when Garret's slaps someone's a-$$ when they are coming off the field. He wants that perfect slap sound. Not sure he would know it if he heard it, but you gotta have goals.

 

[sean10mm]

Belichick has been coaching forever and has seen everything, but a lot of his success is simply committing do doing the obviously right thing.

Like, guys go to the Patriots and comment how much harder their conditioning runs are. But who the hell doesn't think that's important? It's obvious to the point you feel stupid saying it at all; "Fatigue makes cowards of us all" is a saying that dates back to Patton and was popularized by Vince Lombardi. Yet the Patriots are the ones that make everyone from their practice squad on up to Tom Brady do it over and over until they want to puke. There should be no surprise when the other team is gassed down the stretch and the Patriots D is suddenly getting key strip-sacks and their OL is stonewalling everybody in the 4th quarter, they did the most basic thing possible to make that happen- run everyone's ***** off.

 

[kuyyo_morro]

Dez catch no catch would never happen on Patriots.

Bill Belichick has fostered a culture in New England that makes us expect that he and his team are going to be smarter than everyone else. After a day defined by rule weirdness, we’ve learned just another example.

Belichick has a policy within the team that players aren’t allowed to extend the football at the pylon while falling across the goal line:
Interesting tidbit from @mlombardiNFL on GM Street pod: Patriots players are forbidden from extending at the pylon or while falling across goal line in process of catch. Belichick has made it clear they will be benched.

 

[DFWJC]

Its like when Garret's slaps someone's a-$$ when they are coming off the field. He wants that perfect slap sound. Not sure he would know it if he heard it, but you gotta have goals.

 

[yimyammer]

How does he manage to tap that?

 

[yimyammer]

Michael Lombardi sheds new light on why Bill Belichick didn’t call time out at end of Super Bowl XLIX

I know this is the wrong Super Bowl to breakdown at this point in time, but former New England Patriots executive Michael Lombardi just shared some insight about the 2014 Patriots on The Rich Eisen show that I thought was worth sharing.

Lombardi gave a concrete and justifiable reason why Patriots head coach Bill Belichick didn’t call a time out at the end of Super Bowl XLIX against the Seattle Seahawks.

For context, since Super Bowl XLIX was a lifetime ago, the Seahawks were driving against the Patriots and had the ball on the goal line, looking to score. If Seattle scored, there likely wouldn’t be enough time for the Patriots to respond.

So when Belichick dialed up a goal line defense against the Seahawks and let the clock run, people scratched their head. Lombardi explained Belichick’s decision:
“When I first joined the Patriots in ‘14, they had just lost to Denver in a playoff game,” Lombardi said, “and one of the things that they were really bad [at] that season was in the red zone [and] goal line defense. So Belichick was obsessed with trying to find a goal line defense that could stop the run. And so that became the three corner defense. That defense was practiced all spring, was practiced all during the fall, never called until the Malcolm Butler interception play.”

“Get out of here,” Eisen interjected.

“This is true, Rich,” Lombardi continued. “This is true. So when you hear Pete Carroll, people say, well [you have] Marshawn Lynch, it [throwing the ball] was the dumbest play of all time. Why wouldn’t you run the ball? They couldn’t have run the ball. It was a goal line defense. Marshawn Lynch would have lost a yard on the play.

“So when Pete Carroll says they’re in goal line, he sees the goal line front, but they’re in goal line [with] three corners- first time they ran it all year- and Belichick didn’t want to give them time to adjust to what they saw on the field, so that’s why he let the clock play out.” And there it is. The Patriots called a defensive package that they hadn’t used all season to defend against the Seahawks goal line offense and a play that the Patriots had been practicing to stop. This is where coaching plays such a big role in the strategy of the game.

How often will a coach use a defense that hadn’t been used all year at the most crucial point in the year? It would probably take a coach that uses plays from 13 years ago to feel confident making the decision.

Fortunately for the Patriots, Belichick’s gamble paid off- and Lombardi gives the best reasoning why the head coach was willing to push his chips all in at the goal line.

gawd, I love this kind of stuff. I'm so envious

 

[cowboyec]

Bill Belichick is a genius in the same league as Coach Landry.
They prepare and practice for every possible scenario.

 

[sean10mm]

I give Landry more credit in one big way: for innovating entire parts of the game that didn't exist before. You can't get much more fundamental than inventing the 4-3 base defense like Landry did. Entire books could (and probably have) been written about his innovations.

Belichick is less of an innovator than Landry but is amazing at taking everything that's been invented up to that point and applying it. His 3-4 defense was invented in the 1940s and brought into the NFL in the 1970s by Chuck Fairbanks. But Belichick developed it into an unstoppable force in the early 2000s after being out of fashion in the 80s and 90s. He stole all kinds of stuff from Chip Kelly's offense in like 2010, and combined it with the existing Patriots system to make something that worked better than what Chip Kelly himself came up with when he got hired by the Eagles!

 

[yimyammer]

watching the 30 for 30: The Two Bills

really good, thank gawd Parcells waited until after Belichick accepted the job with Cleveland to announce he was going to retire, otherwise Belichick might have coached the Giants all these years