http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/don_banks/09/09/week1/index.html
i really dont get whats BB to do ? cry and say and yell like herm edwards and **** vermeil that it will be very hard without a QB after just the 1st game ?
i also dont believe BB gave any rallying cry for the team players to roll their eyes so to speak. he believes in keeping quiet and things settling down and playing its course on its own.
I get it that it's Bill Belichick's job to convince his Patriots the loss of no one player ends a team's season, and if everybody just does their job everything will work out just fine. But c'mon. This is Tom Brady's left knee that will require season-ending surgery, not Jabar Gaffney's.
Belichick could have at least dropped the stoic act for a moment in Monday afternoon's press conference and admitted his team faces its greatest challenge of his nine-year tenure in New England, if for no other reason than it's a great way to rally the troops for the task ahead.
No one expected him to stand up there and weep for No. 12, or bemoan the 2008 Patriots' fate. You take the good with the bad in the NFL, and Lord knows New England has had its share of the good the past seven years.
But do you think anyone in the Patriots locker room doesn't realize what it will mean to be Brady-less for the first time ever? Do you think the players buy into Belichick's stiff upper lip to the degree that they don't roll their eyes when hearing him offer up only the barest acknowledgement that New England just lost the most difference-making player in the league?
Belichick's motto remains the same, no matter the situation: Give 'em nothing. And when they ask again, give 'em a little more nothing. But this time, even by his business-as-usual standards, it was over the top.
i really dont get whats BB to do ? cry and say and yell like herm edwards and **** vermeil that it will be very hard without a QB after just the 1st game ?
i also dont believe BB gave any rallying cry for the team players to roll their eyes so to speak. he believes in keeping quiet and things settling down and playing its course on its own.