BrianPat
Third String But Playing on Special Teams
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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.Here's what I don't get. This mediot (nice) was invited a few times to view video with Belichick. This makes him somehow qulified to comment on Belichick's personality and personal life and quality as a human being. I'm sorry but being surly to the media, and by generally giving them nothing to work with, does not really tell us anything about Bill Belichick the person. I've watched this guy for over a decade. And I don't know anything about him. Even when he's reprimanding his players, there doesn't seem to be any animus in his voice. "Do your job. Just do your job." That famous quote from the Super Bowl was not spoken with any screaming or the like. Yes he was damant, but I haven't seen anything especially unlikeable from him. His press conferences? Well, I'm not a reporter, so they don't rub me the wrong way. Why do people allow reporters to be the judges of personal character?
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See, that's what the majority of mediots have never realized - his best players (by and large) sense that and respond to and admire it and trust him implicitly because of it. Rodney has said on occasion they get mad at Bill, never hate him. He makes it his life's work to put them in a position to win. And he doesn't BS them or ever use them along the way to spin the heat off himself, as so many of the hugger coaches do. To the contrary, as Tom said, he protects them even at the expense of pissing some folks off royally. In their book that makes him not only a great HC but a magnificent SOB. The guy you want to go to war for and with.
I had stated this is an earlier post just after this whole thing started on this board....reviewing tape and Belichick go hand in hand, always have and always will...
So The Worldwide Leader can publish something favorable to BB !
But even so ... as noted previously ... it has to end downbeat:
"The same thing that makes him [an unlikable] human being," Belichick added in a telling aside [about LT], "makes him one of the greatest players who ever lived."
I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I believe the same is true of Bill Belichick.
I think NFL history will look back on this episode as an extreme over-reaction by a rookie comissioner who bought into the media feeding frenzy in a ham-handed attempt to impose his "tough guy" image.