The Hooded Master [merged: Schwartz aligns with Belichick] - New England Patriots Forums

Seneschal2 · 01-17-2009, 10:06 AM

Jim Schwartz was officially introduced as Detroit Lions head coach on Friday, and Drew Sharp of the Detroit Free Press writes a piece about the Schwartz/Belichick connection from the Cleveland days. Here's the article and some excerpts:

Schwartz quick to align self with Patriots coach

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When you're the newest unknown asked to achieve the football impossible in Detroit, it certainly helps your argument if you continually repeat one name — Bill Belichick.

Jim Schwartz reminded everyone at almost every turn Friday that he learned from the Hooded Master.

He must have mentioned the New England Patriots' coach at least a dozen times during his introductory news conference and other media interviews at Ford Field.

Belichick was one of the first people Schwartz thanked.

"I've been very fortunate … to have seen the way that a Bill Belichick has done things," Schwartz said.

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"I worked three years in scouting in Cleveland for Bill Belichick," Schwartz said, "and it's been probably the best basis that I could have had to be an NFL coach because scouts and coaches look at games two different ways. Scouts look at potential. Scouts look at the future. Coaches want to win tomorrow. They want to win the game."

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T...

***ctpatsfan77*** · 01-17-2009, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Seneschal2

Jim Schwartz was officially introduced as Detroit Lions head coach on Friday, and Drew Sharp of the Detroit Free Press writes a piece about the Schwartz/Belichick connection from the Cleveland days. Here's the article and some excerpts:

Schwartz quick to align self with Patriots coach

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T...

Let's face it. The reason so many opposing fans wanted BB fired is so that he could come coach their teams to three SBs.

***maverick4*** · 01-17-2009, 10:27 AM

The media, other fans, other coaches, whoever can hate on Belichick all they want, but the truth is revealed through the hiring actions.

Belichick is hands down recognized as the smartest, best coach in the league, and all the open coaching jobs are going to any former assistant who can BS that they learned something from Belichick.

strongside · 01-17-2009, 10:55 AM

Anyone know the deal with Jim Schwartz /BB/and Pioli? I read somewher (profootballtalk?) that Pioli hates Schwartz but it appears BB and Schwartz are tight. Anyone know the story behind this?

Seneschal2 · 01-17-2009, 10:59 AM

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Originally Posted by maverick4

...and all the open coaching jobs are going to any former assistant who can BS that they learned something from Belichick.

Bunch of name droppers.

drew4008 · 01-17-2009, 11:39 AM

I thought this thread was going to be about the KKK... lol.

***BelichickFan*** · 01-17-2009, 12:03 PM

Mangini. Schwartz. McDaniels. Pioli. The desperation of wanting a piece of Belichick has reached ridiculous proportions this offseason. Seely too although I'm not quite sure what was going on there.

JMarr · 01-17-2009, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by ctpatsfan77

Let's face it. The reason so many opposing fans wanted BB fired is so that he could come coach their teams to three SBs.

Two years ago, most NFL fans probably wanted to see BB fired and banned from football entirely. Now he's the flavor du jour of the NFL and the haters are disappearing. Too bad. Maybe "Embrace the Hate" should be changed to "Embrace the Love" (?)

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SVN · 01-17-2009, 12:39 PM

here is the original press conf transcript

Transcript of Jim Schwartz's PressConference - Pride Of Detroit

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On what he does and doesn't do with stats: "There's not a coach in the United States - high school, college or NFL - that doesn't use statistics to some degree. What we try to do, and this goes back to Bill Belichick, who is also an economics major, what we tried to do is we tried to identify the important stats and so many times writers will harp on, 'Ok, well they're the worst in the league in yards allowed, or this.' Try to find out what's meaningful, what correlates to wins and look at the game in a little different way. Statistics have been strong in baseball for a long time, but there are 162 games. Stats will bear out over 162 games, but 16 games is a little bit different. We started breaking down games not into just a game, but into series, looking a little bit farther. I think what it does is that it gives us an idea of how we can best use our practice time. We can devote time to third down defense. We can devote time to things that correlate to keeping points off the board, or keeping drives alive to score."

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On the qualities he likes in a quarterback: "Your quarterback is the leader of your team and he is - I said it on Monday - he's the trump card of all positions. The quarterback … a good quarterback can hide a lot of other holes on your roster; if you don't have that quarterback, you have to be really good in a lot of other areas to overcome. I think, first of all, your quarterback has to be your hardest worker. There are a lot of stories in New England of Tom Brady; they reserve the parking space for the hardest worker in their offseason program and they almost etched Tom Brady's name on it because every year that was his parking spot. I think leadership means an incredible amount. Hard work means an incredible amount. Decision-making, accuracy as a thrower and ability to create, I think all those things are important."

***PATSNUTme*** · 01-17-2009, 12:42 PM

BB and Jim had schwartz contest no so long ago.

Someone was going to do it, it might as well be me.