Belichick's end of season speech / excuses to team

[RobertWeathers]

Part of the reason they drafted so poorly is because they managed their cap well enough to play in the AFCCG eight years in a row (which means a 29-32 pick each year). Oh my, they had a 7-9 year, which is worse than every other team in history.

#1 reason is since 2012 the highest pick they've had is #21 when the drafted Chandler Jones. 9 years ago. Incredible.

If you can't draft blue chip talent then you have to sign blue chip talent to stay competitive.

If you sign blue chip talent then your cap # goes up.

No Tom + a roster dearth of blue chip talent = 7-9.

 

[p8ryts]

Not sure I saw this before but Guy just repeated what Belichick told the team in the final meeting. Seems like a bunch of cliched excuses. Yawn. Maybe I was expecting something loftier / better.

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Belichick's speech
"You guys have to understand: This was a season that we didn’t predict. We had COVID hit. We had a lot of situations that occurred on our team. There was a lot of new people. We didn’t win games that we want to win. But that doesn’t mean that we just put our tails under our butts and just walk away. That means you strive to be better the following year."

For all you Belichick haters: Thank you Michael Hurley!

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[Kontradiction]

How about some Bob Ross-isms?

We will paint another OLB here... because everyone needs a friend.

 

[Triumph]

Lets see.

Covid is in Florida. Brady is in Florida. Brady is playing in the Super Bowl.

People must not be wearing their masks in Massachusetts.

 

[tuckeverlasting]

It’s easy to see 2-3 wins that could have been loses.

wow...glass is half empty guy. you must be a barrel of laughs at parties.

 

[GaryfromTO]

what's he gonna say?

We totally screwed the pooch by letting Brady walk without having a proper transition plan in place. Instead we had to pluck a QB off the scrap heap who can't throw the ball more than 10 yds downfield. We struggled on offense because we have no weapons due to my poor drafting. ??

 

[Kontradiction]

Of all the issues, COVID was the most disruptive. Here in Cleveland, Myles Garrett said COVID really kicked him bad.

People forget after Week 3, the Pats were 2-1 and Bill was "winning".....

Maybe he seemed different because because reality tempered expectations based on a confluence of many factors like the dead money...

........and the fact his plan on having his QB replacement was negated by a 2017 trade.

The man himself executed that trade... a full 4 seasons ago. That there wasn’t a back-up plan in place when he clearly wasn’t okay with offering a multi-year deal to Brady is still on him. He’s the GM and he’s the HC. The buck stops with him.

 

[XLIX]

For all you Belichick haters: Thank you Michael Hurley!

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I notice there wasn't a single example in there from when Brady wasn't on the team.....

 

[condon84]

For all you Belichick haters: Thank you Michael Hurley!

Here Are All The Times It Was Belichick And Not Brady

Tom Brady's rightfully getting a lot of shine this week. But it should never be used to downplay how important Bill Belichick has been to 20 years of Patriots dominance. Here's why.

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It's silly that we even need to have this discussion here on PatsFan. If you've watched this team during it's run you know how important coaching has been through the entire run, and the key personnel decisions that have been made to supplement the team year after year to compete.

 

[Lagaffe_07]

wow...glass is half empty guy. you must be a barrel of laughs at parties.

Do you have nothing constructive to say except to attack the personality of someone you doesn’t know?

i was just pointing to the fact that 7-9 is pretty much right where we were supposed to be. You can’t point to the fact that there was close games that we could have won trying to make the point that we were close to being a playoff team while ignoring the fact that we won close game that we probably should have lost. It’s called being objective

 

[amfootball]

I don't put much stock in end of year speeches. Bill has to try to motivate so the guys are ready for next year. I do wonder what the excitement level is of the team though. I guess we will find out soon with the Covid opt outs to see who comes back.

 

[yukon cornelius]

this might be the silliest thread currently in rotation here

 

[Crazy Patriot Guy]

Please share quotes from other GMs who publicly admit missing on draft picks and FA signings.

My post wasn't a statement, it was a question. I was responding to the poster who called Belichick an azzhole for not once acknowledging his drafting is why the team is where it's at.

 

[Brewskies]

I don't have a problem with this paraphrased snippet. He's a football coach not a Rhodes Scholar. The gist of it seems quite true. Time to turn the page and have a good off-season.

Thank you

 

[Brewskies]

I agree, teams without significant changes, like a new QB who can't practice with his WRs in a new system, are the ones who thrived in 2020. Like the Bucs...................

So you are a Brady fan and miss him. He left the team by his choice. Get Over It

 

[Sicilian]

I notice there wasn't a single example in there from when Brady wasn't on the team.....

You must not have read the whole thing then, because he mentions them going 3-1 with Jimmy/Rookie Brissett during Brady's bogus suspension, which helped them secure a #1 seed that year. Also, every example there was of decisions made by Belichick and his coaching staff that wouldn't have involved Brady (at least in the formation of the idea). The point of the article wasn't to say that Brady wasn't involved, just that with all the (deserved) attention Brady's impact is getting this week, it's fair to point out some of the more glaring examples of times that Belichick helped Brady win some of those rings.

 

[BTTA]

I agree and disagree at the same time.

I'm pushing 50 so I grew up with the "Lombardi-isms". The "Do Your Job" stuff resonates.

Do the best you can. Trust the process. Your family is the most important thing. Focus on customers. Improve every day. Don't be a quitter. Honor your commitments, Etc.

I'm definitely not a self-help guru but when life is throwing a pile of **** my way, those kind of axioms at least for me helps bring clarity.

With that said the world isn't black and white. Nuances and complexity is everywhere. I think all BB was trying to do was tell the team the season was a ****show for these reasons and it's time to move on and improve.

Yeah, agree, we all benefit from self-motivation and holding ourselves accountable.

And I'm more than a decade ahead of you on the age thing.
To make the offensive line on my high school team in 1974, we literally had to run head first into a brick wall hard enough to knock us off our feet. The coaches stood there and shamed anyone who didn't do it hard enough, and quoted Lombardi while they did.

COVID tanked a lot of businesses and projects. Nobody has a "pandemic response plan" for their business in place (until now, at least). "The buck stops here" is fine when it comes to resilience and response, but to shame people for the poor results is just stupid and destructive.

I'm delighted with 4 SB's, 3 wins, in 6 years. If they needed a year to recover from that, and from the pandemic, I'm fine with that. Pay the debts, take a nap, have a protein smoothie, and get ready for next year.

 

[Sicilian]

Yeah, agree, we all benefit from self-motivation and holding ourselves accountable.

And I'm more than a decade ahead of you on the age thing.
To make the offensive line on my high school team in 1974, we literally had to run head first into a brick wall hard enough to knock us off our feet. The coaches stood there and shamed anyone who didn't do it hard enough, and quoted Lombardi while they did.

COVID tanked a lot of businesses and projects. Nobody has a "pandemic response plan" for their business in place (until now, at least). "The buck stops here" is fine when it comes to resilience and response, but to shame people for the poor results is just stupid and destructive.

I'm delighted with 4 SB's, 3 wins, in 6 years. If they needed a year to recover from that, and from the pandemic, I'm fine with that. Pay the debts, take a nap, have a protein smoothie, and get ready for next year.

I also think that Belichick being a hard ass is not a universal tactic that he uses in every single situation. If that were the case a LOT more people would have bailed on him over the years, because that kind of constant attitude is exhausting. Players respond to his hard coaching because A) the results so far have been pretty good, and B) he seems to know when he needs to turn it off.

Telling a player that he's seen high school teams run a play better than them and chewing them out works on the practice field, when you want players pushing to their limit and you're trying to goad them into it. Telling them that at the end of a disappointing season when there's no more games to get riled up for, just makes them resent you. He's smart enough to know that difference.

 

[tuckeverlasting]

Do you have nothing constructive to say except to attack the personality of someone you doesn’t know?

i was just pointing to the fact that 7-9 is pretty much right where we were supposed to be. You can’t point to the fact that there was close games that we could have won trying to make the point that we were close to being a playoff team while ignoring the fact that we won close game that we probably should have lost. It’s called being objective

nope only know you by your posts and most are "glass is half empty guy" and being negative is not being objective. so i guess to each his own.

 

[RobertWeathers]

My post wasn't a statement, it was a question. I was responding to the poster who called Belichick an azzhole for not once acknowledging his drafting is why the team is where it's at.

Sorry, man. Yea some fans just demanding for BB to repent in some way so they have a singular reason for a 7-9 season because they don't have the brainpower or are incapable of understanding the reasons are multiple.