I do not downplay Belichick's achievments or the importance of coaching. Belichick has established himself as a HOF coach. He has been responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining a plan for a dynasty. Bu we are talking about an award for this year. It took a perfect storm for us not to be the SB champion last year. We came into the offseason as one of the three top teams in football. The front office added many top players. They have been few injuries. There has been little adversity. This year's team did not need heroic COY performances by its coaching staff to win. We simpley needed to play he hand we had: A Super Bowl quality team PLUS Moss, Thomas, Stallworth, Welker, and Morris PLUS those like Harrison who weren't available at the end of last year.
The point is not that ANY team can go 15-0. The point is that belichick and the front office had brough this team to position where we expected to easily win our division and likely win at least 13 games. I believe that we wouldn't have lost any more games if Pees or Dante were coaching. Do you disagree?
We did discuss this issue at the beginning of the year, when it seemed possible that Belichick might be suspended. Almost no one here thought that the team would miss a beat.
Yeah, I disagree. You're hallucinating about last season, when we made it to the AFCCG by the skin of our teeth on the road as a 4th seed with a no name receiving corps and a battered and shorthanded defense that finally hit the wall. After falling apart like a cheap shirt in Denver the previous post season. He deserved it then, too, like Brady deserved the MVP, but they gave it instead to a guy who proved he and his team were mere one and done flukes in a weakassed conference like the one McCarthy engineered his turn around in this season.
And as I recall you were one of those who seemed to want to see BB suspended - heck you want Kraft to slap him around for the freakin' injury report you somehow think is an affront to all that's holy. I don't think anyone here who is rational believed then or now that this team would not miss a beat if BB were suspended. If they did, they are nuts. Pees and Dante are nice guys, good technicians, Belichick is the system. It's not just scheme, it's the way he handles the media and the players day to day week to week and crisis to non-crisis - and you just can't acknowledge that aspect of the system. Belichick is the guy who determines weekly approach, and sets the tone, and assistants just flush out and implement his decisions. Do you not see him on bended knee personally coaching up a red zone defense that was among the worst in the league in the first half into one of the best down the stretch...
And as for little adversity, Rodney, Richard, Rosie and Morris say Hi.
This team has gotten to this juncture under more pressure and media scrutiny than any team taking a shot at the mark in the history of the league. That in and of itself is just amazing. Every other team folded shortly after arriving at double digit wins. They were able to roll the dice on Moss ONLY because of BB and the ego-less tone he sets and maintains here on a consistent basis.
I don't get what it is with you where this team is concerned anyway. You will grudgingly give Parcells more credit than he deserves, yet you seem to imply that they team was never that bad and somehow always destined to win it all regardless of who was at the helm or on the field. That's about as contrarian as it gets, mg. Should we take it all the way to if Billy came up a day late or a grand short it wouldn't have mattered because sooner or later someone would have bought an eventual NFL winning franchise to us???
