OhExaulted1
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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.I don't know... I find him very entertaining. When ever he snubs the mediots in his usual way it always gets a laugh and a lingering smile out of me. :singing:
BB charms the right people. The ownership, his assistant coaches and his players.
I doubt his contract includes being a "media personality".
Why do the fans love him? He's made this franchise a winner. That's his job and he's damn good at it.
The National Football League isn't concerned with media? I bet that's news to them.
Why do all those newspaper have sports pages, probably more well read than news.
There aren't sports channels on TV? There isn't a netwrork entirely devoted to the NFL that requires media input constantly?
What planet r u from, my friend?
His contract doesn't include being a media personality, eh? Would it surprise you to know Kraft talked to him about his handling of people/media as more of a concern than his coaching when he was hired?
That's what I understand.
Are you saying he trots out to answer questions after every game because he enjoys it?
I think that's pretty much his obligation of being a media personality.
Any NFL head coach is a public face for a team and media and public relations is a very real part of the job in the age of technology that we live in.
He coaches a football team. He doesn't work for the E channel or TMZ.
He get's paid to COACH FOOTBALL.
The NFL is concerned with media. BB is concerned with winning football games.
Your right though, we need a media darling to head this football team. Maybe we should hire Justin Timberlake or Oprah as our next HC.
Who cares about winning as long as you look good and people "like you".
So you're saying he does those press conferences because he enjoys them? They're voluntary?
I'm saying it's the one part of his job he hates and he's not good at.
I'll take that and a team that competes for a title every year over a losing team with a coach the media likes anyday.
Apparently you guys expect an inspirational JFK-type speech every time he steps to the podium.
I like wins. You like pulpit speeches. I guess that's where we differ.
You agree with me then.
Considering we're three years from a super Bowl and have to deal with spygate, and other bull**** constantly, I'd say the lack of effectiveness at this part of his job has become a distraction.
He didn't lose his job at Cleveland because he was a bad coach, Modell knew he was a good coach. His failure was handling player and media issues.
He's improved a lot in dealing with players, you'd think he would address a real simple problem that has become a tremendous distraction.
If it wasn't a distraction, I wouldn't bring it up. It is.
It's a direct result of his success. It breeds jealousy and contempt.
I like how you characterize it as a "simple problem".
The Boston and national media are a "simple problem". OK. Gotcha.
My advice to BB would be this:
Don't change your stripes and keep this team a winner. F**k these media clowns.
I like how you characterize it as a "simple problem".
The Boston and national media are a "simple problem". OK. Gotcha.
I was listening to Felger, Capers is the first big coach , that is from the so called non tree.. Do you start to wonder if this was his move, or a move initiated by Robert Kraft to have a plan in case Belichick has to miss some time because of this spygate nonsense.?? Again Felger is suspecting that not me...But its food for thought
I have never seen a team and a coach held in such contempt by the media (which is practically everywhere these days).
Red Auerbach was hated at least since '61 when I started following the Celtics, but he handled the press. He always had something funny or controversial to say.
He handled the press and maintained a psychological edge over other teams and owners.
The Celtics never had to fight all the media and the league in addition to other teams.
The Patriots looked mentally fatigued in the Super Bowl (coaching too).
Did having to fight the idiot press every day have something to do with it?
It didn't help.
Wrong thread. That has been proposed in the Capers thread.
Just to keep on track, I say a coach with better interpersonal relations skates with a small fine and loses a 4th, maybe.
Then its dropped. Remember, we're not even the defending champ, we last won in 2004. I don't see the Colts, Steelers and Giants putting up with this crap.
It is a simple problem, unless you're stupid or have no personality.
BB is certainly smart, funny and interesting.
Hell, if he made a PBJ sandwich instead of those monotone, nothing revealed press conferences he'd get a laugh for the day.
It's not rocket science, a million media members have to file a story every day. If you don't give them anything and glare at them like they're subhuman, what do you expect them to print?
I think Belichick and Mangini have a better chance of being friends again, rather than Belichick every giving a sit down interview with John Tomase..