BB waxes poetic on fullback play as only BB can

[ctpatsfan77]

 

[BobDigital]

He loves his kickers, punters and full backs lately.

 

[Wax Frog]

BB opens up like a flower when the right questions get asked. Love it.

 

[pazrul72]

I could listen to that man for hours if he is talking x's and o's, teamwork, or leadership. We have the rarest of men coaching our team who is a master at all 3. Preach brother Bill preach. God what I would give to be able to ask him non entertainment who's gonna play BS questions everyday. You get Bill to relax and get going on real questions that aren't headline worthy or giving the other team bulliten board material or an advantage and my goodness you see why he is the greatest coach ever. It must be such a joy to work with him and learn when his guard is down. I wish he opened a coaching school...like collage but for future NFL coaches. An entire semester on TE's writing a thesis paper on zone blocking versus road grading. It would be glorious!

 

[Soul_Survivor88]

 

[RobertWeathers]

Its a gift when he gets to that level of detail.

The guy can give an all-day lecture on fullback play but when asked if hes resting starters he says, "I don't understand the question.".

Funny.

 

[nabwong]

I have no doubt BB knows the name of every opponent's practice squad players.

 

[RobertWeathers]

I have no doubt BB knows the name of every opponent's practice squad players.

.....and their college and at least 1-2 qualities they have (good blocker, good hands, big kid)

 

[Vindicate]

I would love to hear his breakdown on the consistent confidence the coaching staff had in Cannon which could segway into how Scar coaches the O-Line, covering the transition to Googs, how his coaching philosophy differed from Scar's and what it was that they worked on in training camp to make such a drastic turn around.

Right there you'd get scouting philosophy, OLine philosophy, coach transition philosophy and training camp approaches.

Attention to detail is a gift and I love it when people can coherently elaborate on something down to its smallest detail.

 

[turkeyneck]

BB opens up like a flower when the right questions get asked. Love it.

Yep. If the so-called reporters would learn this, learn a little actual football so they could ask intelligent questions, and jetison the soap opera fanzine touchy-feely stuff, they'd get along better with Bill and get much, much more informative answers.

 

[Wax Frog]

I could listen to that man for hours if he is talking x's and o's, teamwork, or leadership. We have the rarest of men coaching our team who is a master at all 3. Preach brother Bill preach. God what I would give to be able to ask him non entertainment who's gonna play BS questions everyday. You get Bill to relax and get going on real questions that aren't headline worthy or giving the other team bulliten board material or an advantage and my goodness you see why he is the greatest coach ever. It must be such a joy to work with him and learn when his guard is down. I wish he opened a coaching school...like collage but for future NFL coaches. An entire semester on TE's writing a thesis paper on zone blocking versus road grading. It would be glorious!

I'd settle for a traveling lecture series

What was point #2 going to be?

 

[ForThoseAboutToRock]

.....and their college and at least 1-2 qualities they have (good blocker, good hands, big kid)

Just to pile on, every behind the scenes thing you read about BB suggests he not only knows those things, but will regularly drop a pop-quiz on Patriots guys the week leading up to practice. "Where did so and so go to college, what position did he play there?" etc. etc.

 

[GrogansArmy]

Just to pile on, every behind the scenes thing you read about BB suggests he not only knows those things, but will regularly drop a pop-quiz on Patriots guys the week leading up to practice. "Where did so and so go to college, what position did he play there?" etc. etc.

Not just that, read recently that he quizzes his players on how well they know their teammates and things such as the names of their wives and children. Something about keeping a tight locker room where all players have an interest in each others well-being.

Wish I remembered where I read that, was a good article.

 

[billikens]

I like the Belistrator, where he breaks down the significant plays from the last game. He seriously could teach a college-level course in film breakdown, strategy, etc., and guaranteed it would be standing room only.

 

[TheBostonStraggler]

BB is almost inhuman in his ability to think and process football. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if he got stabbed and nothing but wires and integrated circuits fell out of the wound.

It's not like BB is the only guy who eats, drinks, sleeps Xs and Os/pro football. There are probably lots of former and current HCs as well as coordinators etc who do. However, I think what sets BB apart is the automaton like devotion to his underlying and fundamental beliefs. What current HC jettisons a player with Collins numbers and media gravitas well into a very successful season? What HC sits his first round pick -- MB who is having what appears to be a good year -- for most of a game in favor of a relative unknown because MB is capable of doing better? What HC enforces so extremely the limitation on the spoken word simply because it may provide a microscopic advantage on gameday?

Other coaches appear to be (understandably so) swayed by strong shifts in the wind while BB appears thoroughly unswayed. How many times has the deafening din of the dimwits been so loud that pretty much all other coaches would have bent to it yet BB authentically and utterly deaf to it?

Yet even as singular as BB is, there is, or I should say there was, luck involved too. Brilliance like BB (and TB) frequently first requires simply being. proverbially speaking, in the right place at the right time. Kraft decides Tuna's price is too steep and he hires someone else. BB sits out 2000 and ends up in Arizone in 2001 or 2002. TB is drafted by Minnesota and is coached by someone equivalent to Mike Tice or Bowles or Switzer. While BB and TB still likely do better than most in any situation, it is unlikely are they atop this historic perch they are on now. The ingredients for the huge outlying greatness of the Patriots needed the dice to land on 7, needed Kraft to say 'F It! BB is the HC I wanted', needed BB to draft TB, needed the unfortunate hit to Bledsoe, needed the seemingly odd tuck rule etc etc to pave the road to what now is a franchise/HC completely in a class of its own.

 

[AtomicDawg]

BTW...this answer from his PC made me spit my pineapple soda.

 

[Tom_Montana12]

BTW...this answer from his PC made me spit my pineapple soda.

Is there a "F******* hilarious" rating?

 

[Wax Frog]

BB is almost inhuman in his ability to think and process football. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if he got stabbed and nothing but wires and integrated circuits fell out of the wound..

For years now I've thought of him as the Ultimate Football Computer.

 

[Gumby]

Thanks for the heads up (good stuff), but I had a hard time reading your clip-snapshots and so went to the source url:

Bill Belichick Press Conference Transcript 12/28

 

[patfanken]

You see THAT is what people don't understand here. BB DOESN'T go into real detail here. It's not even the Cliff notes version. The thing is there is SOOO much detail here.

Don't you remember the story that came out a few weeks ago. The one where McDaniels, Patricia. and Casserio and a few other guys describe getting their first jobs with BB. You remember the one where they described breaking being asked to break down some film and being aghast when they realized they were only getting through just a few plays and hour, then being afraid, they either missed something or were going too slow.

Even on a HS basis there is just SOOOOOOOOO much detail going on during EVERY play, and the more you keep running it, the more you you see. Now take it to the NFL level, and because the systems are so complex, the amount detail you can extract goes up exponentially.

THIS is why the game is so great. You can coach the hell out of it. Depending on how far you want to go and how much your team can absorb, there is no end to how much detail you can get into. In fact I believe THIS is the magic BB has dscovered over his 40 years of coaching, and it is the most difficult thing I can imagine. I'm thinking that another one of those tiny edges that keeps the Pats just one step ahead of the game, regardless of who is on the roster, is that BB gets his players to absorb just a bit more data without harming their performance with overload. He know just how much that is for HIS team.

Believe me that if you ever go to a coaches clinic, regardless of the level and you will absolutely find a group of coaches talking about this subject. It's the point where some very smart coaches start to get just too smart. The more I think about it the more I believe that might just be what makes BB the aritist that he's become. In some way, he's able to coach his guys up slightly more than his peers, without overloading them and hampering their performances. It might be the semantics he's developed over the long years, or it might be just an "art" in knowing when enough is enough. All coaches wrestle with it, very few master it.

But, getting back to the OP, I found it interesting to notice that people appreciated the "detail" when in fact BB could have kept them all pass dinner and still be talking about the same play, let alone just one position on that one play.