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Bill Belichick is a coaching contrarian with a plan – NFL – Yahoo! Sports
Belichick is one of sports’ most fascinating figures because in an era of conformity, access and image, he refuses to play along. He both cares and doesn’t care what people think about him, all at the same time. If you work a little to read between the lines, then a lot of it is obvious.
Asked if he’s ever successfully pranked quarterback Tom Brady, Patriots receiver Wes Welker ventured off on an unexpected, and humorous, tangent. “I pretty much make fun of his life, how terrible it is,” Welker deadpanned. “You go over and use his toilet and you press this button and it sprays water on you. I’m like, ’You’ve got to be kidding me.’ It’s heated, it’s all this stuff.” After fielding a few more serious questions, Welker revisited the Brady bidet. He’s going to be mad at me for bringing that up. He’s always so humble and so everything,” Welker said. “I don’t know, sometimes I just want to go over to his house and use the restroom. … He lives a good life.
https://www.patspropaganda.com/asked-if-hes-ever-successfully-pranked/
Patriots vs Giants Superbowl XVLI Preview (by TheGoshe95)
3 more days…
“We certainly knew at the end of the 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 range, right in there, we could certainly see a lot of our key players aging. We knew, sooner than later, we would have to replace some of those players,” Belichick said. “We ended up replacing quite a few in the last couple of years, particularly on the defensive side of the ball.”
Rarely does Belichick provide such big-picture context to his personnel moves. The “every year is different” mantra typically reigns, and each season and roster decision is treated by Belichick, at least with reporters, as something discrete.
“We’ve had some turnover on the offensive side of the ball, too, particularly at the running back position in the last year,” Belichick said. “Last year, we had guys who were well up into their 30s in that position, and you know that’s tough when you have that kind of age at that position. Some players we’ve drafted and other players we’ve brought in, however they got here, it doesn’t really matter.”
“Look, this is a young man’s game. The young guys coming up are putting pressure on the veteran players, and I know at some point, they are going to push them out,” Belichick said. “You just have to try to remain competitive by bringing in good quality talent, let them compete against each other, and take the best players.
"We had a lot of competition in training camp this year. There were a pretty large number of players who didn’t make our roster who played throughout the league this year, and some of them played at a good level,” he continued. “In the end, we kept the ones we felt were best for our football team, and we’ve played with those.”
https://www.patspropaganda.com/we-certainly-knew-at-the-end-of-the-2003-2004/
Shit People at a Super Bowl Party Say (by ThisIsJockular)
https://www.patspropaganda.com/patriots-giants-super-bowl-13/
There are two schools of thought on Bill Belichick. One is that he’s a humorless football Jawa devoid of empathy or any animating purpose save destruction or creeping MILFs. The other is that he’s probably all those things, and that rules, because “he wins games for us!” That latter opinion is proffered by New England sports fans, so 99 percent of people rightfully ignore it. For the sake of pre-Super Bowl sanity, let us ignore them both—along with all the predictable statistics and hype. Instead, let’s consider the possibility that Bill Belichick is quietly kind of awesome.
Here’s To The Lovable, Impish Bill Belichick
Deadspin is really trying to let the cat out of the bag with this one. Luckily I don’t think they’ll convince any of the BB-haters even with the logic that pervades this entire piece.
