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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.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
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.
I'd love to read that if you have a link.
Thanks.
Some interesting perspective on Cassel in that. A common theme here was that we fans just don't get to see what really matters, and that Cassel was doing things behind the scenes that gave the Pats lots of confidence in him even though we, in our ignorance, thought he looked bad in preseason. But BB makes it sound like they really didn't have secret knowledge we didn't -- that Cassel simply improved dramatically, game by game, once he was able to take the reigns of the offense and start reshaping it to his strengths.
IOW, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Some interesting perspective on Cassel in that. A common theme here was that we fans just don't get to see what really matters, and that Cassel was doing things behind the scenes that gave the Pats lots of confidence in him even though we, in our ignorance, thought he looked bad in preseason. But BB makes it sound like they really didn't have secret knowledge we didn't -- that Cassel simply improved dramatically, game by game, once he was able to take the reigns of the offense and start reshaping it to his strengths.
IOW, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Does this article lead anybody else to believe that Bb must think Montana is the gold standard of QB?
Or just a really accurate passer that made excellent decisions.