Bill Belichick taught me that ideas should be innocent until proven guilty. Some people think ideas are guilty until proven innocent. You might suggest a play or an idea to a coach, and it gets shot down right away — like, ‘Your idea is no good because I didn’t think of it.’ But if you do that too often, people stop coming up with ideas. And then you might be shutting off the flow of pretty good thoughts, and you’re stunting everyone’s development. I don’t want to be dictating. I want to be having conversations.
Josh McDaniels to Peter King
This certainly doesn’t help the “Belichick needs to listen more to his staff” crowd does it?