Belichick Has New Book Coming Out: The Art of Winning: Lessons from a Life in Football

[Wozzy]

Mayo sucks and so did Bill the last couple of seasons with him

Bill sucked with the collaboration picking the groceries the last four years… his words.

He had them in the playoffs in 2021, the year collaboration started. It went downhill from there.

 

[Huckleberry1]

How to date a young girl 48 years younger than you- Winning”

That part only took 30 seconds to write:

Have lots and lots of money.

 

[sb1]

Bill sucked with the collaboration picking the groceries the last four years… his words.

He had them in the playoffs in 2021, the year collaboration started. It went downhill from there.

 

[signbabybrady]

Is that you?

 

[1960Pats]

if he does not address Butler, im taking the book back

If the story ever comes out (I doubt it ever will) then we could find out that it was something worthy of a benching and that Bill is protecting Butler by keeping quiet.

 

[1960Pats]

You can purchase from amazon and read it on your laptop via the kindle app.

Though as someone who was against kindles for years and preferred physical books, a kindle is a really solid investment. You can store thousands of books, there's often dirt cheap sales on popular books, it's convenient to take anywhere, and it prevents the glare of the sun or a poorly lit room from interfering in reading. It's super clutch if you like reading on the beach or plane or whatever.

My son gave me a kindle a few years ago. I'll have to dust it off and give it a try.

 

[sb1]

Is that you?

Nah it’s Bill trying to win without Brady.

 

[lancerman]

Bill sucked with the collaboration picking the groceries the last four years… his words.

He had them in the playoffs in 2021, the year collaboration started. It went downhill from there.

The bad drafts didn't start in 2021. It was an open secret in the league that the Pats have been having ****ty drafts from 2014-2015 at least. They won a bunch of SB's off a strong of good drafting they did from 09-13 that loaded the team with hallmark talent (Chung, Vollmer, Edelman, McCourty, Gronk, Spikes, Solder, Vereen, Ridley, Cannon, Jones, Hightower, Collins, Ryan, Harmon). And even before they won SB's they got Hernandez who was basically a top tier TE in the league in that period of drafting as well.

Also 7 of those guys were drafted in the first two rounds.

From 2014 to 2020, the only notable players they were basically burning their top picks. Sony Michel was the biggest success story of a top pick and he really only was notable because he turned it on for one playoff run, aside from that at the tail end before the collab started in 2020 he did get Uche and Dugger at the top, but again, that's two guys they got with preemium picks in 6 years and they were just solid, not world beaters people will remember like a lot of the guys from 09-13.... and again 2 guys in 6 years that spent a decent amount of time as solid starters with your best picks.

Then in the lower rounds White and Thuney were the only guys I'd consider top tier contributors that played here and made a big difference from 2014-2020. Which yeah they are good, but that's not a lot of hits.

The collaboration was not the problem. The problem was they took a nose drafting well before that and the collaboration didn't fix it.

They did much better getting free agents than drafting which is what helped them and 2021 was a year they got an influx. But it's not sustainable.

 

[signbabybrady]

Nah it’s Bill trying to win without Brady.

H8R

 

[Wozzy]

The bad drafts didn't start in 2021. It was an open secret in the league that the Pats have been having ****ty drafts from 2014-2015 at least. They won a bunch of SB's off a strong of good drafting they did from 09-13 that loaded the team with hallmark talent (Chung, Vollmer, Edelman, McCourty, Gronk, Spikes, Solder, Vereen, Ridley, Cannon, Jones, Hightower, Collins, Ryan, Harmon). And even before they won SB's they got Hernandez who was basically a top tier TE in the league in that period of drafting as well.

Also 7 of those guys were drafted in the first two rounds.

From 2014 to 2020, the only notable players they were basically burning their top picks. Sony Michel was the biggest success story of a top pick and he really only was notable because he turned it on for one playoff run, aside from that at the tail end before the collab started in 2020 he did get Uche and Dugger at the top, but again, that's two guys they got with preemium picks in 6 years and they were just solid, not world beaters people will remember like a lot of the guys from 09-13.... and again 2 guys in 6 years that spent a decent amount of time as solid starters with your best picks.

Then in the lower rounds White and Thuney were the only guys I'd consider top tier contributors that played here and made a big difference from 2014-2020. Which yeah they are good, but that's not a lot of hits.

The collaboration was not the problem. The problem was they took a nose drafting well before that and the collaboration didn't fix it.

They did much better getting free agents than drafting which is what helped them and 2021 was a year they got an influx. But it's not sustainable.

Team building isn’t just about drafting, it’s free agency as well.

It’s also been reported by multiple sources Bill didn’t want Mac Jones but got overruled… so there’s that.

It’s also been reported that Jonathan Kraft meddled in other areas and generally tried to make life difficult for BB because he wanted to start over and build the team in his image. We saw what that looked like this season.

All I know is collaboration started in 2021:
10-7
8-9
4-13
4-13

Seems the downhill slide began with collaboration.

 

[Force Zero Boomer]

I will go out on a limb and say this is his philosophy book and not the tell all.

If it comes at all, we won't get the tell all until he retires.

 

[lancerman]

Team building isn’t just about drafting, it’s free agency as well.

It’s also been reported by multiple sources Bill didn’t want Mac Jones but got overruled… so there’s that.

It’s also been reported that Jonathan Kraft meddled in other areas and generally tried to make life difficult for BB because he wanted to start over and build the team in his image. We saw what that looked like this season.

All I know is collaboration started in 2021:
10-7
8-9
4-13
4-13

Seems the downhill slide began with collaboration.

It isn't one or the other, but it's a combo of both. It's not a surprise that we were having dynamite drafts for 5 years before we finally broke through and went on a second run of winning SB's. The draft's were a problem well before the collaboration. It was a known thing throughout the NFL by like 2017/2018 that the Pats had been ****ting the bed in drafts. It's a big reason why parts of 2018 looked really spotty until some guys like Gronk and Michel really turned it on in the playoffs. It's why Brady looked miserable all of 2019 and why everyone knew we were going to be an easy out for someone in the playoffs.

Draft's have a cascading effect and impact the team longterm. 2009-2013 really started paying off until the tail end of 13 and really 14 and it carried us through the next several years. They didn't have a bad 2022 because they had one bad draft the year before. It was because they had like 8 bad drafts proceeding it and we were asking guys like Hightower/McCourty/Chung to hold on when we should have found viable replacements over nearly a decade to restock.

You don't have a string of bad years because you just had a bad draft then. You have a string of bad years because you had years of bad team building well before it.

Also I don't buy the whole "Bill didn't want Mac" thing. The whole planet knew the Pats were going QB in that draft and the Patriots didn't life a single finger to move to get anybody even when they were jumped so someone could get Fields. The next set of QB's drafted were between 64 and 67. They weren't overdrafting one of them at 38 or even if they stayed at 46. They also lost their 3rd round pick and didn't pick again until 96.

 

[Wozzy]

It isn't one or the other, but it's a combo of both. It's not a surprise that we were having dynamite drafts for 5 years before we finally broke through and went on a second run of winning SB's. The draft's were a problem well before the collaboration. It was a known thing throughout the NFL by like 2017/2018 that the Pats had been ****ting the bed in drafts. It's a big reason why parts of 2018 looked really spotty until some guys like Gronk and Michel really turned it on in the playoffs. It's why Brady looked miserable all of 2019 and why everyone knew we were going to be an easy out for someone in the playoffs.

Draft's have a cascading effect and impact the team longterm. 2009-2013 really started paying off until the tail end of 13 and really 14 and it carried us through the next several years. They didn't have a bad 2022 because they had one bad draft the year before. It was because they had like 8 bad drafts proceeding it and we were asking guys like Hightower/McCourty/Chung to hold on when we should have found viable replacements over nearly a decade to restock.

You don't have a string of bad years because you just had a bad draft then. You have a string of bad years because you had years of bad team building well before it.

Also I don't buy the whole "Bill didn't want Mac" thing. The whole planet knew the Pats were going QB in that draft and the Patriots didn't life a single finger to move to get anybody even when they were jumped so someone could get Fields. The next set of QB's drafted were between 64 and 67. They weren't overdrafting one of them at 38 or even if they stayed at 46. They also lost their 3rd round pick and didn't pick again until 96.

The breakdown wasn’t just about drafting or personnel. There was clearly a power struggle between Jonathan and Bill. That’s not a battle a head coach is going to win, the owner signs the checks.

One thing that could always be depended on during the dynasty was competence, consistency and good coaching. That started breaking down as well. The attempt to switch to a west coast offense in 2022, a system Bill didn’t respect at all, that clearly wasn’t his idea. I don’t doubt this power struggle is what led him to hire his friends to coach outside their comfort zone in 2022. Why hire a seasoned professional who would end up taking his job a year later.

Bottom line is for a team to win you need owners, coaches and players rowing in one direction. This was about a lot more than bad drafting.

 

[lancerman]

The breakdown wasn’t just about drafting or personnel. There was clearly a power struggle between Jonathan and Bill. That’s not a battle a head coach is going to win, the owner signs the checks.

One thing that could always be depended on during the dynasty was competence, consistency and good coaching. That started breaking down as well. The attempt to switch to a west coast offense in 2022, a system Bill didn’t respect at all, that clearly wasn’t his idea. I don’t doubt this power struggle is what led him to hire his friends to coach outside their comfort zone in 2022. Why hire a seasoned professional who would end up taking his job a year later.

Bottom line is for a team to win you need owners, coaches and players rowing in one direction. This was about a lot more than bad drafting.

It was about a lot of things. But bad drafting was a big part of the quality of players that were on the field. Kraft can take some blame. Him cheaping out from hiring a real studio and being dumb enough to film his stupid documentary from a press box cost us a draft pick.

 

[signbabybrady]

 

[denverpatsfan]

Does the book include a chapter on how to blow a Super Bowl by benching a starter?
Or how to bench a starter for a series in a divisional playoff game that contributes to a crushing loss?

 

[PancakeBlockPaul]

How to date a young girl 48 years younger than you- Winning”

d%#*!@t man beat me to it.

 

[n1997y]

…It’s also been reported by multiple sources Bill didn’t want Mac Jones but got overruled… so there’s that.

It’s also been reported that Jonathan Kraft meddled in other areas and generally tried to make life difficult for BB because he wanted to start over and build the team in his image. We saw what that looked like this season.

The breakdown wasn’t just about drafting or personnel. There was clearly a power struggle between Jonathan and Bill. That’s not a battle a head coach is going to win, the owner signs the checks.

One thing that could always be depended on during the dynasty was competence, consistency and good coaching. That started breaking down as well. The attempt to switch to a west coast offense in 2022, a system Bill didn’t respect at all, that clearly wasn’t his idea. I don’t doubt this power struggle is what led him to hire his friends to coach outside their comfort zone in 2022. Why hire a seasoned professional who would end up taking his job a year later.

Bottom line is for a team to win you need owners, coaches and players rowing in one direction. This was about a lot more than bad drafting.

All this makes me wonder if what was really going on was displacement, with Jonathan rebelling against his father’s control but instead of butting heads with his father choosing to lock horns with his long standing coach?

If so maybe the Mayo fiasco was the last gasp of the old man’s control of things.

Reportedly Jonathan had contact with Vrabel while Mayo was still head coach. If Vrabel is Jonathan’s man the two won’t be pulling in different directions and things might work again.

Let’s hope.

 

[PP2]

I will go out on a limb and say this is his ghostwritten philosophy book and not the tell all.

FIFY.

 

[h0c2000]

The 400 page organizational bible is probably just an early copy of this book.