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Must read alert! Filled with great Belichick tidbits.

The Belistrator loves to run a particular play when center Dan Koppen is supposed to be cleaning up the pocket, but is unable to make contact.

“We’re waiting, Dan,” Belichick delights in saying as the film runs. “Still waiting … still waiting …”

“Coach,” Koppen finally responded after two years of seeing clip, “no matter how many times you show this, I’m still not going to get there.”

“Anybody, Dan? Anybody? Can you just hit somebody?” chortled Vrabel, in his best Belistrator voice. “That’s one of my favorites.

"And don’t forget the time he went to Willie McGinest and said, ‘Hey Willie, if you were on the offensive line and I yelled, ‘Screen left!’ which way would you block?’ Willie said, ‘I’d go left.’

"Bill said, ‘Well damn, that’s right. See, Light? Even a defensive guy knows which way to block.”

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.”