Bill Belichick: Dominance Among Peers

[IllegalContact]

Yes it does. You are wrong. Malcolm was not ready to play. He said it himself. To put a player in a a game when he is not ready is gross negligence.

if he was not ready to play, he would not have been in uniform.......you are wrong again.

 

[RobertWeathers]

if he was not ready to play, he would not have been in uniform.......you are wrong again.

Too late in the week to make roster/lineup decisions. Malcolm had the chance to prove he was ready to play and he failed. You are wrong again

 

[IllegalContact]

Too late in the week to make roster/lineup decisions. Malcolm had the chance to prove he was ready to play and he failed. You are wrong again

wrong.......doesn't matter if he's not going to play......player can be made inactive day of the game.....it was all the coaches choice and his choices cost the game

 

[RobertWeathers]

wrong.......doesn't matter if he's not going to play......player can be made inactive day of the game.....

Wrong. He wasn't prepared to execute the defensive game plan. Too late in the week to ramp up another player.

 

[IllegalContact]

Wrong. He wasn't prepared to execute the defensive game plan. Too late in the week to ramp up another player.

Wrong. He was in uniform.......he could have played......coach decided not to play him.....it's on coach.......and don't give me that negligence bull$hit unless you want to talk the about the negligence of not playing him

 

[Zuma]

Someone please nuke this thread now...make it stop

 

[RobertWeathers]

Wrong. He was in uniform.......he could have played......coach decided not to play him.....it's on coach.......and don't give me that negligence bull$hit unless you want to talk the about the negligence of not playing him

Players dress all the time and for a number of reasons do not play. Health, packages, gameplan, etc.

Malcolm wasn't ready to execute the gameplan. He admitted it. Thats all there is to it.

 

[Patriot Missile]

I choose not to think of it as Brady vs Belichick. You could go on and on who makes the bigger difference. Both have have cemented their legacies.

It’s easier to just think of it as the perfect storm. A generational pairing that is just so rare in sports and we just happen to be alive to witness it.

 

[IllegalContact]

Players dress all the time and for a number of reasons do not play. Health, packages, gameplan, etc.

Malcolm wasn't ready to execute the gameplan. He admitted it. Thats all there is to it.

he admitted that he was ready to play.......that's all there is to it.

 

[Nehalem]

if he was not ready to play, he would not have been in uniform.......you are wrong again.

He was dressed because an unprepared Malcolm Butler was still a better option as an emergency CB than using Kyle Vannoy.

I mean Julian Edelman was walking through that door

 

[mosslost]

See the end of the 2015 season where they only needed a win vs the Jets or Dolphins to secure HFA. They came out running the ball even on 3rd downs as is they weren’t trying. They were arrogant thinking they could go back to Denver and beat even though they’ve historically struggled there.

Yeah that was a major risk betting on a Coach on the opposite side to be that incompetent not to run the ball again or take a timeout to think about it. Anyone on this board that thought the Pats were going to win that game after the Kearse miracle catch and Lynch run to the 1-2 yard line, you’re lying. You could see the defeat on Brady’s face after that Kearse catch saying something like “not again”.

Pats fans everywhere in denial about that BB brain fart in SB 49.

 

[TheRainMaker]

The argument between @IllegalContact and @robertweathers is getting too funny.

 

[TheRainMaker]

Pats fans everywhere in denial about that BB brain fart in SB 49.

Especially since Malcolm Butler got beat all week on the exact play the Seahawks were going to run. Had they scored, BB would’ve looked really bad.

 

[Clonamery]

Especially since Malcolm Butler got beat all week on the exact play the Seahawks were going to run. Had they scored, BB would’ve looked really bad.

Link?

 

[mosslost]

Especially since Malcolm Butler got beat all week on the exact play the Seahawks were going to run. Had they scored, BB would’ve looked really bad.

Anyone that posts here were screaming call time out. (And they were correct)

 

[RobertWeathers]

he admitted that he was ready to play.......that's all there is to it.

After the game and in a contract year. Once he got his contract he admitted the truth. Thats all there is to it.

 

[RobertWeathers]

The argument between @IllegalContact and @robertweathers is getting too funny.

Its always weird when he and I lock horns.

 

[XLIX]

Pats fans everywhere in denial about that BB brain fart in SB 49.

I don't know what was going through BB's mind at the time, but it was smart not to call the timeout and here's why:

It was 2nd down, so the Seahawks had 3 plays to score. However, they did not have the time (and time outs) to simply run the ball 3 times. They had to pass it on one of those plays. If Belichick had called a time out, he would have been helping Seattle by giving them more options than they had.

The clock was running and the offense was in clusterf*ck mode. They wasted 35 seconds getting to the LOS after a 4 yard gain while Pete Carroll had the same deer-in-headlights look on his face he had when Ron Borges ripped him a new one at that press conference 20+ years ago. It would have been a very bad idea to call a timeout and give the offense a chance to catch their breath and figure out what they were doing.

 

[Clonamery]

Anyone that posts here were screaming call time out. (And they were correct)

No.

 

[shmessy]

I sorta agree, however I will wait for the post retirement tell all book to explain what went into that decision... "he was not ready", "he was not focused", "he swore at Steve Belichick" etc. no idea of why he did it, but there is more to this story that what we know which is based on speculation.. as much as I believe that decision hurt the Patriots, will await specific details before I judge.

Either way he is the greatest NFL coach of all time... when the time comes there will be the "he was a cheater" crowd out their chanting their bullcrap.

Yes, and I gave a "Winner" for your post. Nobody knows what went down with Butler - -only Robert Weathers is claiming some sort of certitude. All we do know are the facts - - and they do not look kindly on the decision to dress Butler for the game IF Belichick had no intention whatsoever (no matter how much Foles torched Bademosi/Rowe/Richards over a 3+ hour period) to insert Butler in to help pit out the fire. Among others, Butler's "never gonna use, no way, except 1 ST play" active roster spot kept Branch and Britt out of the game. If either of them, no matter how they were, could have given 7% at their respective positions of need, it would have been better than dressing the potted plant on the sidelines.

And you are easily correct that BB is the greatest coach of all time.

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