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From Mike Reiss' NFL Notes today:
Goes to show you why the draft is so hard to predict.
At the end of the session, Belichick took written questions from students, one being, "Who is the most talented athlete you've ever coached in your 34-year NFL career and why?"
"I would have to say Lawrence Taylor," Belichick responded. "I would just say that I probably coached a number of players, a dozen players, with as much talent as Lawrence Taylor that you've probably never heard of, but they just didn't have the desire or the ability to take that talent and transfer it onto the football field.
"They were good individual athletes, but they weren't necessarily good football players, relative to players like Tom Brady or Troy Brown, or players like that who few would say, 'This is the greatest athlete I've ever coached.'
"But Tom Brady is probably the greatest football player I've ever coached."
Goes to show you why the draft is so hard to predict.