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“Hot Rod” Says Belichick Motivating the Patriots to Win Without Tom Brady

Steve Balestrieri

Bill Belichick is the master manipulator and motivator. He can take a team that won a dozen or so games for a decade and make them believe that

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BB is and always has been motivated to win. No doubt he wants to prove he can win in any situation, but is his « motivation to win » any more pronounced than during the 28-3 game ? Betcha despite Brady being on the roster, he was massively motivated to win.

Guy loves winning. That’s why we love him : wants to (and does) win.

People will bring up his record without Brady, but they will include the Cleveland days when he went 36-44. But they don't bring up that coaches can become better coaches. The Cleveland years were 25+ years ago, people act like he's the same coach that went 36-44. That being said, as a Patriot's coach, since Brady became the starter, when he didn't have Brady due to injury/suspension, the Pats went 14-6 (11-5 in 2008 & 3-1 in 2016), that's a .700 win percentage. He's a great coach, he has gained a ton of WINNING experience since his Cleveland days. I feel as long as Belichick and Kraft are around, this franchise will always be competitive.

scott99 said:

People will bring up his record without Brady, but they will include the Cleveland days when he went 36-44. But they don't bring up that coaches can become better coaches. The Cleveland years were 25+ years ago, people act like he's the same coach that went 36-44. That being said, as a Patriot's coach, since Brady became the starter, when he didn't have Brady due to injury/suspension, the Pats went 14-6 (11-5 in 2008 & 3-1 in 2016), that's a .700 win percentage. He's a great coach, he has gained a ton of WINNING experience since his Cleveland days. I feel as long as Belichick and Kraft are around, this franchise will always be competitive.

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Yup.

Look at Brady. Even the most die hard homers wouldn’t have predicted what he would become when he started. Players get better and so do coaches.

Huh, imagine a coach pushing their team to win following the exit of a team leader and face of the franchise. Who'd a thunk BB would take the approach of "we can win without Tom".

Bill has been preparing this speech since last offseason.

Ras-IR Dowling said:

Bill has been preparing this speech since last offseason.

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Probably for 3 years

patman12 said:

Huh, imagine a coach pushing their team to win following the exit of a team leader and face of the franchise. Who'd a thunk BB would take the approach of "we can win without Tom".

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My thoughts exactly! BB motivating the team to win no matter who is on the roster? Who'd a thunk it?!

I am 100% positive that both BB and Brady have extra incentive this year, if the NFL ever gets on the field, to show that he can win without the other one. I just wish the band was still together...

scott99 said:

People will bring up his record without Brady, but they will include the Cleveland days when he went 36-44. But they don't bring up that coaches can become better coaches. The Cleveland years were 25+ years ago, people act like he's the same coach that went 36-44. That being said, as a Patriot's coach, since Brady became the starter, when he didn't have Brady due to injury/suspension, the Pats went 14-6 (11-5 in 2008 & 3-1 in 2016), that's a .700 win percentage. He's a great coach, he has gained a ton of WINNING experience since his Cleveland days. I feel as long as Belichick and Kraft are around, this franchise will always be competitive.

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They can become better coaches. BB is an all-time great coach. Coaches don’t move the needle in terms of winning as much as the common perception, and particularly the perception on this forum. All of these things can be true.

14-6 record is a measly sample size and seems ridiculous when using it while diminishing a 80 game sample size. Might also note the 2007 Patriots were 18-1 and the 2016 Brady Patriots were 14-1. 32-2 with Brady with those squads.

Given that a post-season appearance is hard to expect, let alone a post-season run, it sucks that we won't get to see our secondary frustrate the **** out of Brady. I remember hearing about how Brady was getting benched in camp last year for getting too hot headed (granted, the weapons were far worse than what he has now)

I'm surprised that the NFL didn't pull some schedule BS and just toss a NE / Tampa game in there for giggles. I'd imagine that would easily be the highest viewed game of the season. Seems like easy money to me, if I'm thinking in terms of the wealth hording owners.

Vindicate said:

Given that a post-season appearance is hard to expect, let alone a post-season run, it sucks that we won't get to see our secondary frustrate the **** out of Brady. I remember hearing about how Brady was getting benched in camp last year for getting too hot headed (granted, the weapons were far worse than what he has now)

I'm surprised that the NFL didn't pull some schedule BS and just toss a NE / Tampa game in there for giggles. I'd imagine that would easily be the highest viewed game of the season. Seems like easy money to me, if I'm thinking in terms of the wealth hording owners.

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Are they playing in '21?

Plus there is the possibility they meet in February, technically would be first home Super Bowl. Hype will be out of this world. Media will favor Brady/Bucs of course, and huge experience edge at QB for TB.

Honestly I don't care who we play. I just want the Pats to win. I think we have an excellent chance to win at least one in the next three years.

Patriots advantages over rest of league:

- Coaching

- Experience

- Culture, Attitude

- Determination

- Motivation

- Leadership



The last one is huge. Go Pats.

I've always found Rowdy Roddy Piper a reliable Pats news source...

He better be manipulating and motivating ... Ain't gonna catch shula sitting on his ass mooning over buccobrady

Oh BB didn’t just roll over after TB left? How strange.

Look, BB was winning football games when Tom Brady was dirt on the ground that grew a blade of grass to be eaten by a cow that was turned into steak that was eaten by TB12 Senior, who then synthesized the proteins of that steak into the sperm that became Tom Brady.

Joking aside, has anyone ever thought about what the particular sperm that was Tom Brady was like? I bet it was slower than all the rest but just watched tons of film about bonding with the egg? Food for thought.

VrabelJr said:

...has anyone ever thought about what the particular sperm that was Tom Brady was like? I bet it was slower than all the rest but just watched tons of film about bonding with the egg? Food for thought.

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I am sympathetic with anyone that supports Tom or Bill. Overall history can not prove that either is independent, but moving forward we will have samples sizes that are large enough to draw some conclusions.

Reaching back to BB's Cleveland days is not valid in the salary cap era, (the salary cap started as BB left the Browns), and saying that the small sample size of the "Matt Cassell era" or 4 games during TB's suspension proves BB is the GOAT is not valid either.

So we will see over the next 2 or 3 years.

If I was Kraft, I too would have chosen BB over TB12 in 2020, as Robert has no idea whether BB or TB12 is more critical, just like we do not know. All that RK knows for sure is the TB12 will be finished in 2 or 3 years, and BB may have 5+ years left. So you side with BB. If Brady forced the issue 10 years ago, RK would have fired BB. RK is not loyal to Brady or BB, but to his family to whom he will pass the franchise down.

Actual Pats Fan said:

Patriots advantages over rest of league:

- Coaching

- Experience

- Culture, Attitude

- Determination

- Motivation

- Leadership

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Yeah right...

Don't forget "chess vs checkers" too...

FCB02062 said:

I've always found Rowdy Roddy Piper a reliable Pats news source...

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Best interviewer of the decade: