Bill Belichick to expand role on defense

He surely can’t triple-dip – OC, DC and HC would kill a man.

(gulp, gulp, gulp) Sorry… just swallowing the kool-aid here.

Here’s his quote from Patriots.com:

"Titles are fine, nothing wrong with them," Belichick explained, "but the most important thing is each person’s role, that we do everything we can to help the players succeed – everyone collectively getting the job done.

"Corwin Brown is one of the high-class people in football. He was a tough, smart leader who was great to coach and those are the traits he brings to our staff. He has stepped in well with Josh Boyer, Matt Patricia, Pepper Johnson, Pat Graham and myself, and as a group we are committed to putting a competitive defense on the field. This is the best course for us to move forward in 2010."

"Bill O’Brien has demonstrated excellent leadership and organizational skills in our offense," Belichick continued. "He is a sharp and passionate coach. It is a good mix on that side of the ball, with Bill working with some extremely experienced coaches in Dante Scarnecchia and Ivan Fears, who have been here my entire time in New England, and some more recent additions to the staff in Chad O’Shea and Brian Ferentz."

It is still only February, of course, and the Patriots offseason evaluation process is far from complete. After all, as Belichick has often indicated, it is a work in progress.

"That first step of the process is always very important," he added. "The teambuilding process for next year starts with evaluating ourselves on every level – plays, players, coaching, practice, how we run our meetings, basically everything we do from A to Z."

More like “Hey Matt Patricia (or Pepper Johnson), stand over here and see how I like my defense run. Make sure you coach up a replacement, because this is what you’re going to be doing next year.”

Much better than pushing them into failure. This way all of the pressure is on him, and he doesn’t give a darn what anybody thinks.

I think as long as he isnt being spread too thin doing offense and special teams as well as defense. If he can coach up the defense w/o having to turn around and be the OC then I think we’ll be fine.

Time for Bill to show the kids how its done.

…if he is grooming others to take the reigns a year or two down the road. I’m expecting Patricia or Pepper to step into an assistant DC type of role, where they both learn the game of DC.

I hope Brady steps up on offense next year. He needs to.

as long as TB runs the offense along w. BOB.
wonder why a 10 year vet coach didn’t get the DC job

It’s been a while since he actually took reins on the defensive side as well. I can hope that one of the defensive assistants is involved 50% of the time. Kinda nervous about this though.

What I want to know is the success rate of HCs that don’t have a legit OC and DC…. in addition to being the GM. Has this ever been done before?

His biggest problem in Cleveland was that he tried to hard to micromanage everything. I feel like he’s been doing that more and more lately..