To think Belichick played no role in the success of the Pats is silly. Belichick is one of the greatest defensive coaches ever and for you to say he ALWAYS had a loaded defense is just not true. Do a little research and get back to me ........
Flores, Johnson are a couple. But do you honestly think Jerry will bring in a young guy and actually let him run the team? I don’t
He got the mist out of the defensive talent he had by using them properly and having a game plan for every game that took away something the opponent did well. He had some stars but overal his real magic was a masterful game plan in defense
Another thing "anti-Bill' posters are sidestepping is...
He'll fit in well with Jerry who drafts Arena League and UFL players in the 1st round.
My guess is Bill won't ask for (or get) final say on Player Personnel but he will want to bring in a professional Salary Cap guy. I think he's fine with it. See article below.
Exactly ........I could only find 4-5 HOF defensive players under his tenure. Yet I'm told his defenses "were always loaded". Anyone who followed the NFL knows he was a genius at taking away an offense's strength and never needed a ton of superstars. What gets to me is how some refuses to give him full credit for his years with Brady. Here's an interesting point......as good as Brady was, why did sing Randy Moss for 3 years? To be clear, I'm not trying to short-change Brady ( that would be silly ) but like even he said they BOTH needed each other.
For which he required pro bowl DBs and linebackers. He never had his QB making the max. He never paid wrs. The savings were used on the defense. We have 24M in cap space with Micah needing a new contract. There is no money to overhall the defense. The Dallas job right now is a ticket to nowhere. Of all the stupid decisions Jerry has made over the past 28 years, Daks new contract is near the top.
I mean...wouldnt that be part of the deal? Bill stepping aside.
I am not sure how you interpreted what I said into "Belechek played no role". I am saying he needed defensive personnel who could play the way he liked to play. We don't have anything even close to the talent the Patriots put on the defensive side of the ball during their dynasty years. Maybe you are the one who needs to do some research. He had guys like Richard Seymour, Vince Wilfork, Willie McGinest, Teddy Bruschi, Mike Vrabel, Donta Hightower, Jerod Mayo, Ty Law, Asante Samuel, Rodney Harrison, and that's just a short list. The depth of talent is stunning and includes guys like Kyle Van Noy, Jason and Devin Mcourty, stephon gilmore, Patrick chung, jamie collins, rob nincovich, aqib talib, Brandon Spikes, chandler jones, brandon merriweather.......
How many on this list were 1st or 2nd round picks? This is my point.....Belichick's system, scheme, and culture, turned Jags into high-level players. As stated before, he can help our defense. I'll put it another way, IMO Andy Reid and Kyle Shanahan are similar to Belichick but offensively. Their system/scheme makes players ( jags), not the other way around.
Well, he certainly can't do much worse than Zimmer.
Most of those pro bowl guys weren’t pro bowlers elsewhere but money is easy. Go look at next years cap and add to it what we stand to carry over this year we aren’t in cap problems. We are in a leadership problem
Gruden will come out of exile and will wow Yoda.
When Micah becomes the highest paid defensive player in NFL history, its going to eat up what's left of the cap leaving no room to improve the team via free agency or even re-sign a lot of our guys. Heck, go look at Daks new contract. He's set to count 90M against the cap in 2025 which is literally 33% of our cap. The team has no choice but to re-work his his team killing contract. We also kicked CD's cap hit down the road. He counts 36M against the cap next year as opposed to only 8.7M this year. So, CD alone eats up the 24M in cap room we have right now. This team is run by football morons.
It will be cheap first couple years. In that time Dlaw, Martin and other will be gone. Money is not the issue. Several teams have multiple high dollar players. Look at 49ers roster. You can have talent, pay that talent and manage the cap
