Bill Belichick mic'd up
by jctsai12 on Nov 12, 2009 10:00 AM EST
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PrintNFL videos have posted a 5 minute "highlights" clip of the Dolphins/Patriots game from this past weekend. Listeners can hear Bill's demeanor throughout the game, and the coaching he gives individual players on the sideline.
http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-films-sound-efx/09000d5d8141e444/Sound-FX-Bill-Belichick-mic-d-up
I really enjoyed listening to this piece. Of course the jokes go that Bill is a football knowledge robot with no emotion, but when you hear him on the sidelines you can see that he works on building the trust and relationship with his players just like every other coach in how he addresses them.
At the end of the film, you get to hear him talk to both Tony Sparano for a brief post-game handshake, and then to Jason Taylor. Far from the handshake-shunning, poor sport misconception some people have of him, you can really see the respect he has for Taylor (and probably just a little bit of yearning that he was a Patriot).
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grumblegrumblegrumble zslant43red grumbegrumblegrumble zipshotgut78blue grumblegrumblegrumble grumblegrumblegrumble stare intently at opposing coaching staff, make heads explode “Men Who Stare At Goats”-style
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by MonkeyBusiness on Nov 12, 2009 10:39 AM EST reply actions
Way cool
I had to scoot out this morning but was 5 minutes late just because of that. “Last week was your week off, we’re in it tomorrow, fellas, we’re in it tomorrow.”
Keep the faith!
from a jets fan
this actually made me like him a little bit.
he seems to treat his players with respect, as well as opposing players.
wish i coulda seen some interaction with the offense though.
it was interesting how he was concerned about miami’s O needing to get something done and having his D match that intensity.
and the home of the... JETS!!!
Players love him.
Media hates him. Of course the media are the ones with the cameras.
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by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 12, 2009 11:39 AM EST up reply actions
Well
Let’s hold off on the “players love him” declaration. Ask Ted Johnson, who is still fighting with brain injury issues, if he “loves” Bill Belichick. Belichick is a masterful coach and with many players he has built up a strong level of respect. Without that respect, he wouldn’t have three rings. But part of the reason Belichick has this “dark cloud” over him regarding players is because of how he treats them, particularly if they are injured. More than a few have complained he practiced them even though they were on IR, and Ted Johnson’s claims against Belichick and the Pats training staff border on the criminal.
Also, I don’t think the media “hates” Belichick. His grumpy demeanor and his unsportsmanlike attitude with handshakes after games is MEDIA CRACK! They love that stuff. And guys like Tim Curran, Jim Nance, and Peter King fall all over themselves to bow at the feet of Belichick. That, to me, doesn’t sound like someone the media “hates.”
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The same can be said of most teams in that regard. Ross Tucker had some good articles on it.
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by SlotMachinePlayer on Nov 13, 2009 9:21 AM EST up reply actions
For every Ted Johnson...
you’ve got a guy like Junior Seau, who went on the public record as saying he’d only unretire for Belichick.
Ted Johnson’s claims against Belichick are pretty bad and may well be entirely true, but it’s more indicative of a league that until recently didn’t treat concussions seriously that it is about Belichick himself. Michael Silver’s September 18 article talked about Kyle Turley and how badly his concussion issues were treated by all three of the teams he played for:
“Turley, who believes he was given inadequate medical care during his career by the three teams for which he played, plans to contact a lawyer about the possibility of suing the NFL. "We could be talking about a class-action suit," he says.”
That suggests there is a systematic and calculated refusal to acknowledge concussions as a serious injury by every team, and by the league overall. It’s certainly not limited to the Pats, or Belichick.
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by Comedic.Sans on Nov 13, 2009 6:20 PM EST up reply actions
my thoughts too
I’m not nominating Belichick for Sainthood, of course, but I would say that there really isn’t anything remarkable (in a positive or negative direction) about his concern for players’ well being.
Except in the few very dysfunctional cases, the bulk of coaches in the league demonstrate fondness for their players and enjoy having them on their team. But that fondness does not keep them from pushing these players to, or past, their limits in practice and in games. We’ve seen guys rushed back from concussions around the league, severe and sometimes fatal cases of heat-stroke, dehydration requiring IVs, players in games with casts, etc.
These aren’t issues unique to the Patriots or Belichick. There is of course an opportunity here to lead the league forward and be more proactive in player health and safety that the team may not be seizing, but to say that their current model is an exception from the norm demonstrated by most other teams isn’t necessarily accurate.
And the players are responsible to a certain extent, too
Granted, they’re all pushing for jobs in a competitive market and they’re all worried about some young guy stealing their spot (and subsequently the bread from their mouths), but a lot of guys choose to push their bodies above and beyond. Coaches aren’t doctors – they’ll ask the player if he’s good to go, the player will inevitably say yes. The player might not be good. The coach might even suspect the player’s lying. But that isn’t their job – if the player says he’s up to it, the coach has an obligation to the team’s owner to put the best team on the field, to win games. That is what coaches are paid to do; keeping players from injury is an important concern, but it’s still secondary to Ws in the column.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 14, 2009 2:49 AM EST up reply actions
Players are the best judge of character of coaches...
and when guys who have been there, done that, seen everything, like Junior Seau, declare that they’d only come back for a Bill Belichick-coached team, you have to think that Bill has something going for him outside of a fantastic winning record in NE.
Token southern hemisphere guy - 14,688km from Foxboro. That's 9128 miles, for you heathens.
by Comedic.Sans on Nov 12, 2009 4:43 PM EST up reply actions
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