New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick opens up after winning his fourth Super Bowl Championship.
Say what you want about Bill Belichick, the man knows how to coach the game of football.
While Deflate-Gate and Spygate could very well be real things which have caused so much hatred among fans and other owners in the league, Belichick is a master of owning his sidelines and drilling his football coach-speak home.
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Try to separate the rumored culture of cheating the New England Patriots are so associated with and the fact that most of the league views them as dirty. Think about the man simply as a football coach for a moment.
Would you take anybody else in the NFL ahead of him at this moment?
The short and only answer is no.
Everything Belichick does is calculated. It takes a small village of black-ops to get even the most mundane piece of information out of the Patriots camp. Their injury reports are ridiculous. He projects himself in such a miserable way that it makes it easier to give less information day after day, week after week.
Everything the man does has its purpose: a cause and an effect.
This is why it’s so refreshing to listen to him after he wins a Super Bowl. Now, after last night, we’ve gotten to see the real Bill Belichick on four occasions:
Alright maybe it’s not the full real Belichick, but it’s as close as you’re going to get.
He revealed that he was thinking about his dad during the victory because it hadn’t been since 2004 since they last felt the Lombardi Trophy when his dad was still around for the celebration.
“The last time we won and I got Gatoraded, my dad was here, so I certainly think about him tonight,” Belichick said in his post game press conference. “I’m sure he was watching, and I hope my mom’s watching too.”
Steve Belichick died of heart failure in 2005. Belickick’s mother, Jeannette, was not at the game, but was watching from Annapolis, Md.
His dad was probably watching during that final minute as well.
Because it’s Belichick, and he is such a master with handling anything and everything on the sidelines, one has to wonder if his decision to not call a timeout after Seattle’s first down play had anything to do with the Seahawks indecision on second-down.
The likely reason he didn’t call timeout there and let the clock tick down to 20 seconds is because he’d rather have two timeouts in his back-pocket for Brady to work with during one last ditch effort to tie the game.
Regardless, maybe Belichick’s decision to let it run led to a little indecision on Pete Carroll’s part. Or perhaps he received some help from above in the form of his father Steve.
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