I hate Belicheck, firstly, because he purposefully handled the Jets head coach situation so that they would be up the creek. Forget about the million dollars he stole. He manipulated the situation so that the Jets would have to select from a depleted head coaching pool. I don't hate him for what could be. I never sat around thinking "If only Belicheck was our coach." He went to New England - it is what it is. He's a great coach - that's impossible to deny. He's also an angry, grumbly, miserable man who uses every cheap tactic he can come up with to get an edge. Yes, if the refs don't call it, it's technically legal. Doesn't mean it isn't cheap and evil. Belicheck is Satan himself. The Jets, on the other hand, are all that is good in the world.
Thats only fitting, considering an inoperable tumor was just found on the back of Mangini's brain, and now he must choose whether or not to tell his wife about his long-standing affair with Ms. Britney Bellicheck! Next time, on General Admission: Standing Room Only!
yea we hate him and his man boobs. I cant stand looking at him and his gray sweatshirt. he even dresses like a fat ass lazy bastard. This is new englands last division win for the fat ass.
Belichick's hatred of the Jets is founded in his own guilt for how he handled the situation. Ultimately, he wanted out of Parcells shadow, and he was willing to crap all over the Jets to do it. Belichick's press conference to announce him as coach of the Jets TURNED INTO his awkward resignation conference. He was hilarious. He scribbled his resignation then and there. This is where all the hatred came from. The Jets had just spent time and money pulling themselves from their position as NFL laughingstock and Belichick embarrassed the Jets, doing the most disrespectful thing imaginable. Gutman trashed Belichick, and rightly so. He had every reason to be indignant. In other news, Belichick's costume will look less like a monk and more like that of Jennifer Beals in "Flash Dance" this week, as he's been left no recourse due to higher than usual temperatures in the Northeast. -X-
I put more stock in Gutman being the cause. And, even if he's no longer around, I think the contempt lingers. I'd be willing to bet that there was an awful lot of backroom sniping - between lawyers and otherwise - after BB resigned as HC of the NYJ. Gutman is the one guy on the planet that Belichick has actually gone on record as hating. Parcells? I read where they talk once a week by phone now. Mangini? Given time, everything will be smoothed over. With Gutman, though, Belichick actually went out of his way to verbally skewer. The quote was something like, "I'm going to say this one last time so that we can close the book on this: There's no one in sports who has talked more, but won less, than Steve Gutman."
Here's the real story on the BB thing with the Jets. First, when Hess wanted to hire Parcells in 1997, BP was under contract with the Pats. BB was the DC and Ass't HC of the Pats at the time. The Jets, unable to hire BP because of the contract with the Pats, named BB HC and BP as a "consultant." BB was happy to take the Jets' money then and go along with the charade that he would be HC all to force Krafts' hand to let BP go for compensation. Tagliabue ended the fight by awarding the Pats compensation and allowing the Jets to hire BP as HC. If BB hated the Jet organization why did he take the DC job with the Jets and leave the Pats? He was happy to do it in 97. Why? $$$$$$$$$$ So BP and BB came over to the Jets in 97. After the successful 1998 season with the season, BB's name was being mentioned as a HC candidate around the NFL. In particular, Al Davis was looking to hire BB as HC. Hess stepped in and 1) promised BB that he would be HC of the Jets when Parcells left and 2) made BB the highest paid Asst Coach in NFL history in order to convince him to turn down any HC offers. That $1 million bonus Hess paid BB was a huge amount of money in 1998 - more than most HCs were getting. BB happily took that money. Unfortunately, Hess passed away in 1999 Then after the 1999 season, BP decided to step down and BB was given the position that the Jet organization promised him - HC. What does BB do? He backstabs the organization that paid him all that $$$$ to stay and take over from BP and turns down the job, running to his new found buddy - Kraft. If BB hated BP and the Jets, why did he wait until this point to let it out? Because he waited until he had a lucrative HC offer from Kraft with lots of $$$$ involved. There is no way to paint this to make BB a victim or to explain it in any way that paints BB in a good light. Sorry Pats fans. Good try though.
I don't really see why Belichick's feelings toward the Jets matter. We got the coach we wanted. And then we screwed him out of his top receiver. Let him hate the Jets, let him be angry, he's the one with the rings, the Jets are just an organization trying to get out of a 40 year funk. I'd prefer he hated the Jets because he couldn't beat the Jets, but that's just me. However, if I were to bet on hunches, I'd throw down a little side money that Mumbles is out of the league in 3 years for blood pressure.
I'm not to familiar with the whole fiasco in terms of details...But did Woody Johnson have anything to do with it because I read some places that Belichick dislikes Johnson very much, for whatever reason. I think he even told Mangini that the Jets were a bad organization and Woody a bad person, something along those lines...
A few links to relive the saga, thanks to the interesting website allthingsbillbelichick.com -- run by a lady who has too much time on her hands and must be envious of Sharon Shenocca: 1997, Jets hire Belichick and Parcells. http://allthingsbillbelichick.com/articles/1990s/jetshirebb.htm http://allthingsbillbelichick.com/articles/1990s/transparentfarce.htm ("I know it's going to work and I am in it for the long haul," said Belichick, who was 36-44 in five seasons as Cleveland Browns coach before joining the Patriots as an assistant last year. "I'm here to fill a role and when my role changes, other people's roles will change, too.) 2000, Belichick resigns as HC of the NYJ http://allthingsbillbelichick.com/articles/2000/theedge.htm (article from star ledger printed the day he resigned -- it assumed he was going to assume his role with the Jets) http://cbs.sportsline.com/u/ce/multi/0,1329,1842684_59,00.html http://allthingsbillbelichick.com/articles/2000/resignsinny.htm http://augustasports.com/stories/010500/pro_124-5202.shtml
It goes even past all that stuff. Flash forward to the off season '06, Mangini campaigning players to go there from the Pats (hey, I would do the same thing), and the Jets getting into the Branch situation and the alleged tampering (Cheyut knowing the Jets #'s). Who knows at this point. They're all a bunch of babies. Just play football. :drunk:
Belichick was given $1 million by Leon Hess to remain loyal to the Jets. Once Hess died, Belichick obviously felt that he could do as he pleased. So he jilted the Jets for the Pats. But why he's so pissed off at the Jets is beyond me. He walked away with a million $ and broke his contract to boot. He has a pair of balls to resent that the Jets demanded compensation from the Pats for his signing.
I Believe Belicheck was Originally hired as Head Coach because Parcells was still with the Pats - When the deal was struck to get Parcells , BB became Assistant Head Coach to take control when Parcells retired -- this was the deal he signed on for knowing very well he was to take the reigns of the Jets after Parcells-- He fcked the Jets not the other way around.
Not babies, bastards. See my point in one of my previous posts. In the NFL the biggest bastards win. Mangini could kill Kenny with a straight face.
the Jets overpaid Belichick in his last year as AHC with the understanding that he would be the HC of NYJ when Parcells stepped aside. He signed on the dotted line, so to speak. He got a sniff of more money and more control and he violated the spirit of his agreement. Plain and simple. Belichick will do anything to get what he wants, in a game or in life. He is not so different than most of these sharks who succeed in a tough business. But he is a hypocrite to bear so much malice toward a team that paid him a fortune (for that time) to be a spear carrier. He is the one who copped out. Of course, in his twisted world of a mind, somehow he is the offended party.
