The River Finally Came for Bill Belichick [fired]

https://www.theringer.com ^ | Jan 11, 2024, 8:44am EST | By Justin Sayles

[aklurker]

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.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

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.

[dfwgator]

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.

[discostu]

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.

[aklurker]

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.

[lepton]

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.

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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.

[Pilsner]

There are two kinds of coaches. Them that's fired, and them that's gonna be fired.

Bum Phillips

[Pilsner]

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.

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

Tom Brady reacts to end of Bill Belichick’s run with Patriots: ‘I am forever grateful’

Both Brady and Belichick seemed kind of quirky to me at times, but you can't argue with their success as the foundation of one of the greatest teams of all times in sports, or pretty much anything else.

[dfwgator]

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”.

[WhoisAlanGreenspan?]

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.

[daniel1212]

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.