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The Turning Point Of The Patriots Dynasty Through My Eyes
By: Russ Goldman
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By: Russ Goldman
The preview is wrong, but this article is worth reading. Bravo, Mr. Goldman!
I've never understood how the intentional safety was this 'revolutionary' decision when BB ripped it directly out of Parcell's book.
The Pats did just that against the Bengals in 1993 to secure the 7-2 victory. I was 15 and watching that game on my Grandmother's TV at the nursing home.
Cincinnati Bengals at New England Patriots - December 12th, 1993 - Pro-Football-Reference.com
You, sir, are HARD CORE -- which is good; we're going to need people like you this season!
I've never understood how the intentional safety was this 'revolutionary' decision when BB ripped it directly out of Parcell's book.
I don't consider it revolutionary and we've all seen it before and since (including in this past Super Bowl) but geez, ya know, I can't think of any time other than the Broncos-Pats game where the team who was losing gave up the intentional safety.I've never understood how the intentional safety was this 'revolutionary' decision when BB ripped it directly out of Parcell's book.
The Pats did just that against the Bengals in 1993 to secure the 7-2 victory. I was 15 and watching that game on my Grandmother's TV at the nursing home.
Cincinnati Bengals at New England Patriots - December 12th, 1993 - Pro-Football-Reference.com
I agree with this and I think very few people remember or recognize just how much tremendous pressure BB was to put Bledsoe in once he was healthy.Great point OTG, though there was of course one other balls of steel moment: the starting quarterback decision, when both were healthy. The 'safe' decision that most coaches (especially one coming off a 5-11 season who had been fired after five years from his only other head coaching job) would have made was thankfully not the one that Belichick made.
Not only was it unpopular with most of the media, not only did it break the "unwritten" rule that you don't lose your job to an injury, but most significantly was that it implicitly ran counter to the owner and his boss: Kraft had just given Bledsoe a $103 million contract just a few months prior to that decision.