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The River Finally Came for Bill Belichick [fired]
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| Jan 11, 2024, 8:44am EST
| By Justin Sayles
Posted on 01/11/2024 8:08:23 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: dfwgator
I agree here too, Brady is the goat, but even the goat needs a team to work with & Tampa had enough of a good team to let Brady work his magic.
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posted on
01/11/2024 10:12:51 AM PST
by
aklurker
To: Rummyfan
Tom Brady could have made any number of halfway decent head coaches into perennial winners.
Could he?
I mean, he got Bruce Arians a Super Bowl win - Arians' face probably belongs in the dictionary next to the term "halfway decent head coach". That same Bucs team could do nothing with Jameis Winston at QB.
To: aklurker
Well he also had Gronk, and I always say, the key to being a great quarterback, is having a great go-to receiver that will get you first downs.
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posted on
01/11/2024 10:27:49 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: AnotherUnixGeek
Well it wasn’t really the same Bucs team. When they went for Brady they picked up a few of his favorites, including Gronk, to make sure he had not just weapons but weapons he liked. They went all in and rented themselves a Super Bowl.
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posted on
01/11/2024 10:33:23 AM PST
by
discostu
(like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: dfwgator
Gronk, Edelman, Welker, Moss, Bruschi, Vinatieri among others, Brady had some great teammates over the years. It was the chemistry between them that made it work including Belechicks coaching.
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posted on
01/11/2024 11:20:43 AM PST
by
aklurker
To: Red Badger
During a road game against the Jets, NFL security stopped a Patriots staffer who was recording the Jets signals—a clear violation of league rules.
It was such a clear violation that all the league could come up with was stretching the meaning of a safety rule requiring such filming to be done from a location with overhead cover.
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posted on
01/11/2024 12:20:14 PM PST
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Red Badger
There are two kinds of coaches. Them that's fired, and them that's gonna be fired. Bum Phillips
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posted on
01/11/2024 1:52:45 PM PST
by
Pilsner
To: Red Badger
But Belichick has long been something of a bespoke tailor, able to beat Patrick Mahomes’s Chiefs in a track meet AFC championship game and shut down Sean McVay’s Rams in a defensive slugfest in the Super Bowl two weeks later. Which brings to mind another Bum Phillips quote, about Dolphin's Head Coach Don Shula:
He can take his an' beat yours, or he can take yours, an' beat his.
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posted on
01/11/2024 1:59:10 PM PST
by
Pilsner
To: Red Badger
To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
Belichick was asked, of all the quarterbacks he ever coached, which one would you choose if you were building a team? He said right away, “Bert Jones”.
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posted on
01/11/2024 2:24:06 PM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: dfwgator
That's hilarious, and so Belichick. Like the article mentioned he was not a person who smiled much, Brady did, and Brady was like a sponge trying to absorb everything he could. He loved football in a different way.
I won't be surprised if Belichick can't find a new NFL home with a deal he can agree to, and just retires.
To: Red Badger
I have only one thing say on this piece: in a day of poor journalistic acumen and mandated wokeism, this writer is actually refreshing to read (if not all) an article by an exception to that norm.
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posted on
01/11/2024 4:40:44 PM PST
by
daniel1212
(Turn 2 the Lord Jesus who saves damned+destitute sinners on His acct, believe, b baptized+follow HIM)
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