I've kind of had the Patriots on the brain lately. Largely to defend them from the scurrilous charges of cheating by people who don't really care about cheating but just want a way to knock a very successful team down.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/01/you-tell-them-robert-kraft-owner-goes.html
In fact the more I think about the Patriots though, the more phenomenal I realize they are. Again if you read my blog and know me at all you know I'm not a Patriots fan but a Giants fan-though I think that things like Deflategate and Spygate are all about the sour grapes of Jets fan. Their team is unsuccessful so if the can show the Patriots cheated maybe this proves that the Pats are as hapless as they are-which of course hardly follows.
However, it's unreal how much the Pats have achieved. I mean it all starts with Bill and Tom. How do you stay that competitive for so many years? Brady's father may be right that it will end badly for his son-as Brady hopes to play like he has for the last 15 years forever.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/tom-brady-cannot-stop.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=3
I just hope when Brady's time is up he'll be able to leave with his dignity in check, I hated seeing Peyton Manning humbled recently. This proud competitor he would have bristled even having his skills questioned in the past kind of said this time that 'Yeah, maybe my skills are diminishing'-as Bellichick once said of Bernie Kosar.
I hope at least Brady is able to play 5 more years and set a record for NFL achievement at the age of 42 or 43. To be sure there's a fine line. You have to know when to say when-Brett Farve perhaps did push it a bit too long.
Give Brady this at least: until now there's been no sign that his skills are diminishing. Quite to the contrary. In today's media event in Arizona a young fan asked Bellichick for advice on his ambitions to be a coach and Bellichick told him to enjoy playing first as the time you get to be a player is short.
You have to appreciate how hard it is to win so consistently as both the guys do. It's hard enough to win the Super Bowl once but sometimes you probably can be lucky. It's a lot easier to do this today in the era of free agency and salary caps as everything works against a team staying on top for long. Yet the Pats have been a bona fide Super Bowl contender for 15 years.
No they don't win every year but they have a shot every year and always win the division and almost always get at least to the championship game. In a book I'm reading on Bellichick-'Patriot Reign' a scout that worked with him made the point that sometimes when a team wins the SB it's kind of at it's apex and starts to fade after that.
https://read.amazon.com/
Maybe even that's usually the case when you think about it. That would account for how seldom teams' repeat and how poorly SB teams normally do the next year. It's pretty dismal reading. It's hard to be like Bellichick and Brady and simply continue to feel the desire to win year after year after year.
If their system reminds me of anything it's the Niners back in the 80s-it's rather appropriate that Tom Brady grew up a big Niner and Joe Montana fan.
Niner coach Joe Walsh put a system in place like Bellichick has put in NE where they just won year after year no matter what new players. Yet, as far as pure desire to win, Bellichik has Walsh beat as the latter ultimately couldn't take the pressure anymore to have to keep winning the Big One year after year. What was interesting is that the system he put in place continued to whir without him as George Seifert won a couple and the last victory was with Steve Young replacing Montana.
Bellichick never loses his edge, He still comes back hungry week after week, year after year. I notice that Brady always has the perfect answer to what his favorite SB team he's been on was: the next one.
Ironically if anyone might be comparable to Bellichick it's Pete Carroll who has his SB champion Seahawks back in the SB. Also ironically, he's actually the opposite of Bellichick in coaching style. Years ago when Bellichick replaced him in NE-after his shocking jump from the Jets as Parcells' successor-the rap was that Carroll failed in NE as he was too lax.
What we see now though is both coaches have the goods. In reality there is more than one way skin an onion and more than one way to coach a team to greatness.
http://diaryofarepublicanhater.blogspot.com/2015/01/you-tell-them-robert-kraft-owner-goes.html
In fact the more I think about the Patriots though, the more phenomenal I realize they are. Again if you read my blog and know me at all you know I'm not a Patriots fan but a Giants fan-though I think that things like Deflategate and Spygate are all about the sour grapes of Jets fan. Their team is unsuccessful so if the can show the Patriots cheated maybe this proves that the Pats are as hapless as they are-which of course hardly follows.
However, it's unreal how much the Pats have achieved. I mean it all starts with Bill and Tom. How do you stay that competitive for so many years? Brady's father may be right that it will end badly for his son-as Brady hopes to play like he has for the last 15 years forever.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/tom-brady-cannot-stop.html?smid=tw-nytimes&_r=3
I just hope when Brady's time is up he'll be able to leave with his dignity in check, I hated seeing Peyton Manning humbled recently. This proud competitor he would have bristled even having his skills questioned in the past kind of said this time that 'Yeah, maybe my skills are diminishing'-as Bellichick once said of Bernie Kosar.
I hope at least Brady is able to play 5 more years and set a record for NFL achievement at the age of 42 or 43. To be sure there's a fine line. You have to know when to say when-Brett Farve perhaps did push it a bit too long.
Give Brady this at least: until now there's been no sign that his skills are diminishing. Quite to the contrary. In today's media event in Arizona a young fan asked Bellichick for advice on his ambitions to be a coach and Bellichick told him to enjoy playing first as the time you get to be a player is short.
You have to appreciate how hard it is to win so consistently as both the guys do. It's hard enough to win the Super Bowl once but sometimes you probably can be lucky. It's a lot easier to do this today in the era of free agency and salary caps as everything works against a team staying on top for long. Yet the Pats have been a bona fide Super Bowl contender for 15 years.
No they don't win every year but they have a shot every year and always win the division and almost always get at least to the championship game. In a book I'm reading on Bellichick-'Patriot Reign' a scout that worked with him made the point that sometimes when a team wins the SB it's kind of at it's apex and starts to fade after that.
https://read.amazon.com/
Maybe even that's usually the case when you think about it. That would account for how seldom teams' repeat and how poorly SB teams normally do the next year. It's pretty dismal reading. It's hard to be like Bellichick and Brady and simply continue to feel the desire to win year after year after year.
If their system reminds me of anything it's the Niners back in the 80s-it's rather appropriate that Tom Brady grew up a big Niner and Joe Montana fan.
Niner coach Joe Walsh put a system in place like Bellichick has put in NE where they just won year after year no matter what new players. Yet, as far as pure desire to win, Bellichik has Walsh beat as the latter ultimately couldn't take the pressure anymore to have to keep winning the Big One year after year. What was interesting is that the system he put in place continued to whir without him as George Seifert won a couple and the last victory was with Steve Young replacing Montana.
Bellichick never loses his edge, He still comes back hungry week after week, year after year. I notice that Brady always has the perfect answer to what his favorite SB team he's been on was: the next one.
Ironically if anyone might be comparable to Bellichick it's Pete Carroll who has his SB champion Seahawks back in the SB. Also ironically, he's actually the opposite of Bellichick in coaching style. Years ago when Bellichick replaced him in NE-after his shocking jump from the Jets as Parcells' successor-the rap was that Carroll failed in NE as he was too lax.
What we see now though is both coaches have the goods. In reality there is more than one way skin an onion and more than one way to coach a team to greatness.
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