Rapsheet: Belichick on how football teams progress

Must read alert! Some really great stuff from BB in this article. Here’s a nugget:

“You continue to build on your situation plays so you get third-and-goal on the 3, you start the year with one play or two plays, now you maybe have four or five plays, maybe a couple that you’ve used before but it’s been so long ago that it’s really not showing up on the breakdown so you can go back to them but in the meantime you have to keep adding to that,” Belichick explained. “So you get to the end of the year and then you start the next year and you think, ‘OK, where are we?’ Well we’re nowhere close to where we were in December or January – we’re just not. We’re starting training camp, we have new people, nobody has run these plays in six months. It takes you a period of time, even if you have some spring practices, still you’re just nowhere near the execution level. Now, they’re executing better at this time of the year too, I’m not saying that we’re great in December. We’re better in December, well so is everybody else. I think where your team is in September from an execution standpoint, what we can do now and what we can do in September are two different things.”