re: Would you have taken Bellichick?

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Bill Belicheck's HEAD coaching record (we aren't talking DC anyway) was 36-44 at Cleveland and at New England without Brady 34-49.

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Dude he had the mid 90s browns in Super Bowl contention

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Dude he had the mid 90s browns in Super Bowl contention and his Perkins-Earhart offense is the most multidimensional offense ever created. 

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Utter nonsense! No one ever accused Belichick of being an offensive mind.

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You're probably heard from 100 different people that the Patriots are a game plan offense. Here's what that means: We're going to watch the defense specifically to identify their tendencies, what they do situationally and what their philosophy is.

It starts with the defensive coordinator. They literally go through everything so you truly understand, historically speaking, where this guy comes from, what his background is and what his foundation is.

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From there, we'd start to dissect the defense. On Tuesdays during game weeks, we would sit with Bill Belichick and go through the scouting report on every one of their DBs who we thought were going to play: corners, safeties, nickel backs, and sometimes even linebackers we thought we could take advantage of in the pass game. Then we'd go through strengths, weaknesses and an overall summary.

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At the end of that session, we'd actually get to sit there and watch film with Bill, which was one of the most educational things for a young player: to see the game through Bill's eyes and understand what he was talking about. So, by the time we got in on Wednesday, we had a great understanding for why these plays are being called and what our matchups were.

Some of it could be as simplistic as, hey, this cornerback has great transition and quickness, but he's a little smaller and we think he struggles on the deep ball, so we can take our shots on this guy. Or, this safety has really good range, so we're going to have to make sure we do a really good job with our eyes when we're throwing the seam route to get him off his mark.

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I specifically remember one game during my rookie year: we're playing Tampa Bay. In all of the film we'd watched to that point, they were a "two-Tampa" team, which means they played with two high safeties. And all of a sudden, they came out playing "post-safety", which means one safety in the middle of the field and man coverage across the board.

Well, our game plan was set up with a bunch of two-Tampa beaters, because that's what we had watched on film. That's what we prepared for all week. 

So, at halftime, we went in and scratched the whole game plan. Bill said, ‘Look, this is what we're doing. This is what we've got to do in order to match what they're doing.' And he went up to the whiteboard and wrote out new plays. 

After that, we knew the different plays and concepts that we were going to move forward with in the second half. We came out and had a great second half and won 28-0.

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Brady goes to Tampa and TB wins the Super Bowl his first year there.

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Bill Belichick: Tom Brady’s running the offense he’s run his whole career

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Belichick was asked at his press conference if the offense Bruce Arians is running with the Bucs is different from the ones he ran before Brady came to Tampa. Belichick said “totally” and went on to say that the offense looks more like the one that Brady ran during their time together in New England.

“It’s the offense he’s run his whole career,” Belichick said. “Well, I mean, as it evolved here, but you know. The running game is the running game. The running game is different, but passing game’s the passing game. That’s pretty similar. I mean, you could call almost every play from the flare control to the protection, you know, similar to the way we do it.”

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Brady made Belichick look better than he is as a HEAD coach.

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