Rob0729

What does age have to do with it? Gasper fails to acknowledge things like:

- Chuck Noll had a near decade draught with the Steelers before he stepped down. In his last seven years of coaching, he made the playoffs once. Noll peaked at age 47 and only had two more playoff wins for the rest of his career. Comparing him to Belichick in terms of age is a little silly. Noll's success disapeared when the Steel Curtain defense broke up. It had nothing to do with age.
- Landry's playoff success went down hill with the retirement of Stabauch.
- Gibbs decided to retire with three Super Bowls and pursue his outside interests (NASCAR). When he returned, he had to deal with Daniel Snyder's stupidity and being away from the game for nearly a decade didn't do him any justice since he seemed to struggle with the speed difference of the game since he left.
- Jimmy Johnson was pretty much forced out because of his conflicts with Dan Marino, the owner siding with Marino, and Johnson being hamstrung with Marino eventhough he played about 2-3 years too long. Johnson wanted to bench Marino in 1999 because he was clearly done and it turned into a bitter feud between the two (there was tension before that since Johnson wanted to trade him and Wayne Huizenga wanted to keep him). Both Marino and Johnson were gone after that season. If Johnson could have traded away Marino when he had value, he might have stayed with the Dolphins even through today for all we know.
- Bill Walsh retired by choice. It wasn't like he couldn't coach anymore.

Pats726

I had HOPES for gaspar...that MAYBE he'd be more like Reiss...but NOOOOOOOO he's following in Felger's being a twit or worse!! YES I remember when adults RAN the Globe..not #*@&*$@

Angry Man

If you believe what they are saying... someday our computer monitors will be the size of paper which will make it that much easier to toss like a newspaper.

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Nikolai

Gasper fails to realize that he's not seeing an age correlation, but the ancient idea that "time changes all things".

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MassPats38

Nor anything particularly insightful or enlightening.

Most unsuccessful coaches likely get flushed when they are younger. Most great coaches can be identified by great players, who ultimately age and retire thus explaining sporadic season records. The life as a head coach takes a toll that most are unwilling to pay for an extended period of time. Any of these would explain why coaches do not sick around for late life success stories. The age reference is fairly arbitrary given the other reasons head coaches hang up the headset.

The article appears to suggest, despite the evolution of player personalities on the roster, that Belichick has "lost a step." He has made moves criticized by the media since his arrival (Bledsoe, Milloy, etc.), so if anything he is consistent. Love him or hate him, he is the same coach and appears to be as committed to the game as he ever was.

Bradyfan 75

PRE PUBE you hit the nail on the head

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Deus Irae

I agree. Nothing to see here.

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borg

Belichick will never win again as long as he keeps on playin Bon Jovi during practice. Are the Patriots players a bunch of middle aged New Jersey housewives? Wrecks Cryin knows how to motivate today's playa....call em slap dicks. Now lets go get a snack!

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patriot lifer

Vermeil coached for a long time, not that he was very good in his later years, but he wasn't much different than his years with the Eagles. I think he was 63 or so when he won the Superbowl with the Rams.

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Nate Solder (6'8" 320 lbs)
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Jake Ballard (6'6" 275 lbs)
Logan Mankins (6'4" 320 lbs) (100% recovered)
Dan Connolly (6'4" 320 lbs)
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BradyFTW!

Same here, Bill Simmons has been toeing this line for a few years now.