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Pujo · 11-06-2009, 11:10 AM

Very candid for BB.

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***MoLewisrocks*** · 11-06-2009, 11:26 AM

Outstanding, as he often is in the appropriate setting fielding intelligent and interesting questions.

They should zerox his QB primer and distribute it league wide. It's the reason Josh has Orton and draft picks instead of Cutler and saddled with a big contract for an inconsistent player you still have to adapt/limit your for...

***PatsWickedPissah*** · 11-06-2009, 11:30 AM

Kudos for posting this. BB REALLY opens up. Here's a trivial example how with humor and persistance the interviewer gets BB to respond after his typical initial dodge...

Cole: How much longer do you see yourself doing this?

Belichick: Right now, I’m just getting ready for (the next game).

Cole: So you’re not sure you’re even going to get past Sunday. {nice disarming response}

Belichick: That’s long-term for me (smiles) … four more days.

Cole: OK, do you have some idea of what else …

Belichick: No, I like what I do and I’m doing it.

Cole: You love the mental challenge of it?

Belichick: I really do. I like every part of it. The offseason, the in-season, the preparation for games, the young players, the old players … there’s a lot of different aspects to the job and that’s one of the great things about it. You’re not locked into one part, one thing. I can be a part of anything I want to be a part of, so I like that, it’s fun. … Every season presents a multitude of challenges.

***DarrylS*** · 11-06-2009, 11:33 AM

This made the BB folder, it is getting quite thick..

I love these comments:

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Cole: Jimmy Johnson once said, if you don’t take too many risks, you can win nine or 10 games a year.

Belichick: Jimmy probably said the same thing to you that he once said to me: “You’re really only competing with about 10 teams a year. If you just say out of the way, the other 20 teams will screw it up themselves. Whether it’s ownership or personnel or coaching or some combination of factors.” Ego, internal struggle, something will happen to two-thirds of the teams, that was Jimmy’s theory. That leaves you with about 10 teams that you’re going to have to really battle with. Those teams have it together. They’re going to make good decisions and if you play bad football, they’re going to take advantage of it. They’re going to find some undrafted guy or some middle-round pick or some veteran free agent who is going to spark their team. Pittsburgh is always going to be there. Indianapolis is always going to be there. They may not win it, but they’ll be there. You’re going to have to beat them. Philadelphia is going to be there. Yeah, [quarterback Donovan] McNabb might get hurt one year and they might go 7-9, but they’re going to be there. You’re still battling them on every front

***PatsWickedPissah*** · 11-06-2009, 11:35 AM

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Originally Posted by MoLewisrocks

Outstanding, as he often is in the appropriate setting fielding intelligent and interesting questions.

They should zerox his QB primer and distribute it league wide. It's the reason Josh has Orton and draft picks instead of Cutler and saddled with a big contract for an inconsistent player you still have to adapt/limit your for...

What frustrates me is when interviewers with access to the HC piss away good opportunities to ask BB interesting football detail related questions. He usually responds well to such inqueries and us fans hunger for those responses. They KNOW he's not going to give any info on player injuries or diss a guy for a bad performance so why go there? Instead, wrap your game decision question in a wider range situational philosophy question and BB will often go off on a roll with chapter and verse like he did on why there are no more coffin corner punts.

***Zeus*** · 11-06-2009, 11:40 AM

BB's love of the game and coaching is palpable. He offers more insight using fewer words than anyone else in sports.

Cole does a nice job getting past the public persona foisted on Belichick by reporters who are too intellectually lazy to even bother to try to understand just why this guy is so good at what he does.

jmt57 · 11-06-2009, 12:08 PM

Interesting that the Seymour trade took 24-48 hours to complete from start to finish, but the first conversations about trading for Burgess began last spring.

Really good stuff towards the end on the quarterback position, and what causes some teams to be bad teams in the NFL.

livinginthe past · 11-06-2009, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by PatsWickedPissah

What frustrates me is when interviewers with access to the HC piss away good opportunities to ask BB interesting football detail related questions. He usually responds well to such inqueries and us fans hunger for those responses. They KNOW he's not going to give any info on player injuries or diss a guy for a bad performance so why go there? Instead, wrap your game decision question in a wider range situational philosophy question and BB will often go off on a roll with chapter and verse like he did on why there are no more coffin corner punts.

I'd love to read that if you have a link.

Thanks.

***PatsWickedPissah*** · 11-06-2009, 12:33 PM

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Originally Posted by livinginthe past

I'd love to read that if you have a link.

Thanks.

Sorry, it was on TV postgame a couple weeks ago.

SVN · 11-06-2009, 12:40 PM

Pleasantly surprised at cole having this access to BB. Lets see if someone like PFT can pick up something good out of this. I bet they will post 'Brady avaiable for 6 first rounders"