Bill Belichick Is Done With Microsoft Tablets

PatsFanSince74 · Oct 19, 2016

The Gr8est said:
Consider it useful on steroids, and it is a positive reflection on your post.

Rest assured though, the next time ANOTHER team has communications problems in Foxboro, expect the calls for BB's head to intensify.

Thanks for the clarification and it goes without saying that I agree with you about what would have happened if the Broncos communications had gone down during an AFCCG in Foxboro...fines, draft picks, suspensions...you name it.

PatsFanSince74 · Oct 19, 2016

Bill Lee said:
Interesting. That game is in DEN so it isn't about our WiFi. The "private, secure, in-stadium network" is almost certainly a VPN. There's lots of ways to poorly implement VPNs, several of which involve using Microsoft's implementations of them. However there's also lots of scenarios where its easy to blame the VPN but the real problem is a lossy, congested network.

I don't disagree with a word you write. My only point is that with the billions the NFL takes in it is inexcusably incompetent of the Technology and Information management team to allow this to occur on a routine basis.

They should be able to fix this for a few million dollars per stadium. The more I read, I conclude that this is not about "vision," it's about nuts and bolts and the classic error of trying to force multiple and often incompatible legacy systems/technologies to work together.

Hire a competent Technology and operations manager who has experience running complex systems at multiple locations and give him or her a salary package with a big upside...a large bonus if the thing works and a boot out the door if it doesn't.

There is no way that the person responsible today is doing the job. Why? The damn thing doesn't work and everybody is covering their butt.

Have the new manager bring in three or four vendors to compete in presenting a plan to fix this from scratch across the league. It looks to me now that the League is too cozy with Microsoft.

Hell, Jerruh spent, what, 1.5 billion on his Palace and the new facility in LA is going to cost almost 3 billion by the time its actually done, why can't the league figure out how to drop some money to get this right at every stadium? A few million bucks per stadium is pocket change in that context.

The Boston Patriot · Oct 19, 2016

I love our Luddite coach.

BingoBrown · Oct 19, 2016

Oh Boy! I see were this is going.

M$:Coach Belichick we have upgraded and in improved our tablet.Please
give us one more shot.
BB(mumbles)O.K. one more shot

Pats destroy next opponent.

BSPN,NFL stooges:What in Gods name has M$ supplied to BB and the
Pats?

Bill Lee · Oct 19, 2016

PatsFanSince74 said:
I don't disagree with a word you write. My only point is that with the billions the NFL takes in it is inexcusably incompetent of the Technology and Information management team to allow this to occur on a routine basis.

I agree with what you wrote too. It's sad to see how the NFL is mostly a marketing and media firm and has obvious problems when it comes to maintaining if not improving the product on the field. They went off all half-****ed when it came to dealing with alleged deflation issues, and they're going off all half-****ed when it comes to dealing with implementing technology.

PatsFanSince74 said:
Hell, Jerruh spent, what, 1.5 billion on his Palace and the new facility in LA is going to cost almost 3 billion by the time its actually done, why can't the league figure out how to drop some money to get this right at every stadium? A few million bucks per stadium is pocket change in that context.

Interesting that you should mention Jerruh, because AT&T Stadium is said to be one of the cases where they got it right with regard to tech ( ref: http://www.mobilesportsreport.com/2...loyment-delivers-solid-wi-fi-das-performance/ ) ( ref: StadiumVision Showcase Dallas Cowboys ).

RecoveringCowboy · Oct 19, 2016

I think there is a way BB could live with MS Surface, but we are not going to know the techie details. I suspect memory management (i.e. MS Memory DeflateGate

), so either it could be used differently, or if he can legally use more than one device. If it's the WiFi, that's an issue for who runs that - not Microsoft.

It's great BB is making an issue of this, but I can't picture him permanently giving up a device and put himself at a disadvantage.

Deus Irae · Oct 19, 2016

RecoveringCowboy said:
put himself at a disadvantage.

Assumes facts not in evidence

IcyPatriot · Oct 19, 2016

Deus Irae said:
This thread has given me the confidence to come out and say something that I've kept inside for a lot of years. Here goes:

I hated Fortran when I learned it as a teenager.

Whew! I feel as if the weight of the world has been lifted off of my shoulders.

Pascal was worse .............

rochrist · Oct 19, 2016

Wheelman said:
I'm not an expert at all. But They're all Unix or Unix-like right? Linux is Unix-like? Windows is Unix? OSX is BSD which is Unix-like? I can't remember, it's all confusing! But they're all pretty much Unix, right?

No, Windows is built off the NT heritage which owes more to VMS than unix.

rochrist · Oct 19, 2016

Deus Irae said:
This thread has given me the confidence to come out and say something that I've kept inside for a lot of years. Here goes:

I hated Fortran when I learned it as a teenager.

Whew! I feel as if the weight of the world has been lifted off of my shoulders.

Fortran was pretty painful. Along with the punch cards. Pro tip: do not drop your punch card deck on the way to load it.

Raymond · Oct 19, 2016

I'd take a bullet for Bill, I really would..............kinda.

But when we all saw him challenged to change the clock time in his Toyota car, is it surprising?

Anyway, I like Bill when he simply writes crap down with his stubby pencil. There lies the real genius.

FrodoBagginz · Oct 19, 2016

Meanwhile, Jets coach Todd Bowles says his team has no problems with their tablets....

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Deus Irae · Oct 19, 2016

IcyPatriot said:
Pascal was worse .............

Yes. Yes, it was.

PlanB · Oct 19, 2016

rochrist said:
No, Windows is built off the NT heritage which owes more to VMS than unix.

I loved VMS!

rochrist · Oct 19, 2016

PlanB said:
I loved VMS!

It was a trifle cumbersome.

Bill Lee · Oct 20, 2016

rochrist said:
Fortran was pretty painful. Along with the punch cards. Pro tip: do not drop your punch card deck on the way to load it.

Been there, done that! Of course I did it outside, and a bunch landed in a puddle too, sigh...

rochrist said:
(VMS) was a trifle cumbersome.

But the system programmers were BLISSful!!!

E1Downey · Oct 20, 2016

FrodoBagginz said:
Meanwhile, Jets coach Todd Bowles says his team has no problems with their tablets....

By far the best post in this thread.

PP2 · Oct 20, 2016

PatsFanSince74 said:
I don't disagree with a word you write. My only point is that with the billions the NFL takes in it is inexcusably incompetent of the Technology and Information management team to allow this to occur on a routine basis.

They should be able to fix this for a few million dollars per stadium. The more I read, I conclude that this is not about "vision," it's about nuts and bolts and the classic error of trying to force multiple and often incompatible legacy systems/technologies to work together.

Hire a competent Technology and operations manager who has experience running complex systems at multiple locations and give him or her a salary package with a big upside...a large bonus if the thing works and a boot out the door if it doesn't.

There is no way that the person responsible today is doing the job. Why? The damn thing doesn't work and everybody is covering their butt.

Have the new manager bring in three or four vendors to compete in presenting a plan to fix this from scratch across the league. It looks to me now that the League is too cozy with Microsoft.

Hell, Jerruh spent, what, 1.5 billion on his Palace and the new facility in LA is going to cost almost 3 billion by the time its actually done, why can't the league figure out how to drop some money to get this right at every stadium? A few million bucks per stadium is pocket change in that context.

You're talking about the same league that refuses to install cameras in pythons (remember BB's rant on that one?) and refuses to install microchips in balls to accurately gauge if they break the plane of the goal line.

PlanB · Oct 20, 2016

I've heard assistant coaches and players refer to tablets they use to preview an opponent. Maybe the Patriots have an in-house solution that is more usable/familiar than the MS one developed for the all-32. I could understand BB's frustration if there are function or performance differences.

The Boston Patriot · Oct 20, 2016

PlanB said:
I've heard assistant coaches and players refer to tablets they use to preview an opponent. Maybe the Patriots have an in-house solution that is more usable/familiar than the MS one developed for the all-32. I could understand BB's frustration if there are function or performance differences.

Over the years, and with many computers, I felt more animosity towards these denizens of the devil than BB did but had to refrain from destroying my employers equipment. Not so my own. I have 'executed' more than one computer for their obstinance over the course of my long and not always cordial existence with this Prince of Darkness.

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