Agreed, Patsfan. <No suprise there, huh ? > Sometimes you have to really listen to him to find the gold nuggets. There there, but he is the master of deception. During his Wed. presser, after the 45-3 win over the Jets, he opened with the usual... getting ready for Chicago.... good team in all three phases of the game.. bla bla bla..... well coached..... bla bla bla..... then the nugget: "We are just coming off a tough game against the Jets." Inoccuos to most, but I thought it was pretty damn funny. I think that is his sly way of being humorous, yet appearing respectful.
Dry Yep. BB's humor is very very dry. After his experience with the press in Cleveland as their team moved to Baltimore, he doesn't much like the press. Oh, he might not like Mangini or the Jets, but I sometimes think he dislikes the press more than either. Anyway, there are little nuggets like that if you look for them.
I love how you have to read between the lines of a couple sentences in a Wednesday Press Conference to maybe find a slight amount of humor in Belichick.
I kinda understand it. I'm a nurse and often use coded or cryptic phrases to express humor to a co worker when it would be inappropriate to be outright comical.
For some reason Belichick reminds me of the Civil War General William Tecumsah Sherman. Irascible, easily irritated by others, brilliant. He hated the press and thought they all should be shot.
I think the biggest quote during the post game was when LT was talking and said some Pats players were talking and he said you got us tonight but we will be back. I think on tp of the playoffs, divisional rivalry, there is a pissed off revenge fator going with the Jets in this game and an angry Jets D is a good thing.
This is a very good post. Take it back even further, he refused to shake Herm Edwards hand...HERM EDWARDS (in real life that would be like John the Baptist telling JC there isnt enough water). BB has either hired a very good psychiatrist or has read the press clippings of him being a self creator of bullshit. That said, lets face it...he is a very very good HC. I still would love to see where he would be without goldylocks but we will never know the answer to that. Its like trying to know where would Knoll be without Bradshaw, Parcells without Taylor, Walsh/Montana, Phil Jackson Bryant, Jordan...etc..etc. There is a reason he is playing nice with Rex and I will never believe its because he respects him. Never. That doesnt play into how he motivates himself or his team. Its some kind of reverse reverse thing that I cant even comprehend...yet.
BB is right on this one; we'll all get to find out who's the better team coming out of the AFC East this Sunday. He's the devil in sheeps clothing though; you can never trust or believe a word he says without thinking twice about it. The team that makes it out of the AFC this year really deserved it like never before, because before the season started, any fan with basic AFC 101 info knew that the (in no specific order) Colts, Patriots, Jets, Ravens, Steelers and Chargers were the class of the AFC. The Chargers had an off year, the Jets eliminated the Colts... And now the AFC is left with 4 elite teams in the Patriots, Steelers, Ravens and Jets. It'll be extremely tough to make it out of the AFC, no team has an easy route to the SB.
Very well said, I coudn't agree more, this could be one of the best divisional playoff rounds in recent history, huge rivalries in both AFC games:up:
Braylon Edwards has an upper echelon skillset, but at the end of the day, he and Santonio Holmes usually end up acting like showboating morons. However, if they win us games, I can put up with the talk.
lol I have listened to BB on informal radio stations and somehow I don't think hes the evil mastermind the media makes him out to be. I think he really is a one game at a time coach. Plus hes not as bad as most opposing fans make him out to be. He apparently has a good sense of humor.
He has spoken at length of his admiration of Buddy Ryan's defensive innovations and will expand on what he learned from Rob when he was with the Patriots. He also has said he thinks coaches NEED to be themselves and Rex is just being honest. You can tell when he doesn't actually respect some other coaches and none of the Ryans fall in that category.
Absolutely correct. This is what they do. Every quote out of the Pats this week will be how amazing this Jets team is. They'll praise Sanchez, Ryan, the D, the O, the Special Teams... The point of all this, of course, is to lull us into thinking we're better than we are. It was a Parcells tactic he's taken on. I think Ryan's style actually is a decent matchup for them. By talking trash, it stops this nonsense from Belichick and usually, you'll get a couple of terse statements like "We'll see on Sunday" or something to that effect. At the very least, the trash-talking breaks us out of the lull. That's why I think we played so poorly the last game. We didn't do any trash talking! I want some trash talking this week. Get the players on high alert, get them to perform at the highest level. THAT's the way the game should play out, with both teams at their highest level.
He does try. I think he does respect Ryan and the Jets and what they can do to the Pats if they don't play well. He just won't give people a break if he feels it could hurt his team. So he won't give out any more information that he has to, he won't get into public debates etc.. He really is the anti-Ryan. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/football/nfl/01/10/rex-ryan.ap/index.html
I know, I know but Belichick was a football god his 1st few years here and then he hit a rough patch with mediocre drafts and FA acquisitions and spygate. People were saying he was getting bored or old or something. Maybe, maybe not but this year everything he's been doing so far has been gold. Let's see if it lasts.
