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Bill Belichick (205) moved into a tie with Marty Schottenheimer for sixth place all time in career wins. Belichick (18) needs one more postseason victory to tie Don Shula (19) for second place in postseason wins. Tom Landry (20) is in first place. Belichick has five conference titles and needs one more to match Don Shula, who led his teams to six Super Bowls.

Great read on what is the greatest book on football ever written. While I don’t own one I did take a copy out from my local library a couple years ago. It’s as dense as they say. I need to go back and take another look…

The book reinforced Belichick’s own belief in detailed planning, which is why he calls it and Jack Welch and the GE Way the two most influential books of his career.

“Honestly, I think that’s something that is a media fabrication. There are a lot of different alignments out there. You see 4-3 teams use odd spacing. You see 3-4 teams use even spacing. You have 11 players, you can put them in various positions. Whether you want to put it on the pre-game depth chart as one thing or another, I think is a little bit overrated.”

Why is it overrated?

“You play different fronts, you play different spacing, and you teach the techniques of your defense,” Belichick explained. “That is what consistent, techniques that are taught in different defensive systems, whether those teams go from three-man line to a four-man line, or a four-man line to an odd spacing line, or overs-to-unders, or unders-to-overs, or over-wides, whatever you want to call it. They will continue to play the same fundamental techniques as they’ve been teaching for the entire year, for the most part. I think that’s what teaching defensive fundamental football is about. It’s about fundamentals. Wherever you put them, you’ve got to people other people in complementary places, however you decide to do that.