Soul_Survivor88
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I wonder if all the worrying about injuries and plugging new guys into the team took away some time from his process? While I don't know what his typical "process" is, the deflategate nonsense and all the injuries must have taken their toll on his focus. Belichick is a great coach, but not a God. He can't block out everything.I worship Belichick but I think if you got him alone he'd be the first to admit this was not his best season.
Just as he evaluates every position in the offseason, I think he may reevaluate some of his decisions and tactics for next year.
- Resting a good to go Amendola for the first Denver game, leaving Brady with only Gronk, Chandler, Bolden and LaFell as his offensive weapons.....
Sending undrafted rookie Chris Harper out to catch a punt in the snow, when Patrick Chung just caught one with ease a series prior
Resting starters for the final games when one win seals the #1 seed and just expecting everyone who was being rested to just come out firing on all cylinders for the playoffs.
Making an undrafted rookie in Kevin Snyder, who's been on the team for a week, active over Offensive Line depth in either Waddle or Jackson....this one to me is really underrated, especially when it became apparent that Canon was useless and there was no real sub.
Coaching was the difference this season between a second consecutive Super Bowl berth or an embarrassing loss to old man Manning in Denver
A little outside the box because it happened in a win, but the onside kick against the Redskins was the dumbest onside kick I've ever seen. Zero good reason for it. At least during the Eagles game you can argue that they were missing offensive pieces and also it was a "long" onside kick.
Bill was super aggressive at points this year and super conservative at others. I'm not as frustrated with him as a lot of other fans. I do hate most of his challenges though.
Kicking off in overtime was the dumbest singular move there.
But the entire Dolphins game was the worst called game of BB's Patriot career if you ask me. Play-calling alone in that game alone ultimately cost this team a Super Bowl appearance.
An absolutely bizarre game-plan and lack of any apparent urgency/desire to CLINCH THE ****ING #1 SEED against a bad Dolphins team with a lame duck interim coach.
I still look back at that game and have no idea what the **** they were thinking. There was no positives to that game, there was no defense of anything that happened in that game, it was a "Uh.....I guess Belichick doesn't care about the #1 seed?".
That game was legit played like a pre-season game when everything was on the line.
Alright, I've made this post enough today I suppose. Just really had to get out of my system how ****ing pissed I am at how this team seemed to have 0 interest in clinching the #1 seed when it was right in their hands.
As ****ty as the Eagles game was, at least they appeared to be fighting and just got too cute for their own good. The Dolphins game just showed 0 indication they gave a **** about winning.