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I think Coach Belichick’s one of the best coaches I’ve ever been around and probably one of the best coaches the game’s ever seen. He’s extremely thorough. He’s extremely disciplined in his approach. He’s simplistic and complex at the same time. Some people take the simple and make it complex. Bill takes the complex and makes it simple and I think that when you’re able to do that and do that for your players, they can function better mentally and physically and that’s the goal. The goal is to reduce the amount of mental drag on your players so they can play the game fast. And finding players that can do that is an important quality that we all look for.

Trent Baalke

Tampa Bay Buccaneers can compete for NFC South title, Jason Licht says | The MMQB with Peter King

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I’ve covered a lot of fun games, but for some reasons I’ll remember the game New England won to set the record for consecutive NFL wins (19) in 2004, because that story contained my favorite SI line. (The list of good lines is a very short one, believe me.) I’d written previously about Belichick having the biggest football library in the world—which he has since given to the U.S. Naval Academy library. In a quiet moment in the locker room after New England beat Miami to earn the record, I got Belichick about as celebratory as you’ll hear him. And I wrote, “ ‘It’s great to be in the history books,’ said the man who has read them all.”

Peter King
NFL locker-room culture change targeted in upcoming initiative | The MMQB with Peter King

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A History of the NFL in 95 Objects: Bill Walsh’s 49ers Coaching Tapes | The MMQB with Peter King

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A History of the NFL in 95 Objects: Bill Walsh’s 49ers Coaching Tapes | The MMQB with Peter King

Not necessarily a Pats read but a great one from Greg Bedard nonetheless if you love preparation. It’s clear how much of Bill Walsh’s philosophy that Bill Belichick adopted.

Here was one nugget from Walsh that stood out to me and spoke to BB’s front toward the media.

Every year you’re going to have a calculated approach taken by a couple writers, especially when you’re doing well, to take the team apart. And they delight in it. They like to see you squirm, they like to see all of us squirm. If they could feel they affected us and we didn’t do well, they have won the war. It’s that simple. I guess we’re fortunate we don’t have more of them. If were in New York City or some place it would be eight or 10 of them doing this. But every year, the same guy locally, there’s a couple of them, will do anything they can to disrupt us. They can make it black and white, defense versus offense, coaches versus players, owners versus coach. They’ll do it every conceivable way, and they’ll get a formula and a plan and methodically work on it. And they work on it. They really calculate it. These guys are not simple-minded people. They’re very bright guys. Just find a way to deal with this stuff, because it will happen. We’ll have two or three things come up, we don’t even know what they are yet, but he’ll come up with something to try to break us. And nobody’s going to break us. Nobody’s going to take us apart.”

Belichick bread and butter is defense, yet he has presided over some of the biggest advances in NFL offenses have seen. What’s your take on his role and importance with the offense

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Yay, post 12,000! And we might as well make it a BB football theory one.

I think because Belichick really came to prominence as a defensive coordinator with the Giants and then won the first Super Bowl with the Patriots with a historic defensive performance he tends to get more of a nod for defense, but really, he’s an all-around innovative football coach who deserves as much credit for his advances on offense as he does on defense.

I think it really boils down to the same things on both sides of the ball. His ability to put his players in a position to succeed by playing to their strengths. There’s a simplicity and focus to his style that enables his teams to execute a strategic gameplan that is right on target.

I think far too much time gets spent on criticizing what BB does and not enough time on analyzing why he did it. The evolution on both sides of the ball over the last decade mirrors the evolution of the game itself and in many ways was a driving factor for many of the changes we’ve seen in the game over the years.

His/McDaniels incorporation of the spread offense in 2007 to the ultra-fast no-huddle the last few years, or the changing of his defense from a traditional 3-4 to playing primarily sub-defense that plays elements of the two-gap 3-4 and one-gap 4-3 at the same time.

Someday after it’s all over we’ll truly get a chance to appreciate the force of nature Bill Belichick was for the game of football. Until then we can just keep reading about how he can’t draft and doesn’t answer questions the way the media wants him to.