Posts Tagged ‘bill-belichick’

Belichick Tells Pats to Keep Quiet About Jets

Bill Belichick has never been a fan of his team providing bulletin-board material, but the so-called “Patriot Way” is being put into overdrive this week with New England so obviously intent on avenging last January’s AFC playoff loss to Gang Green. “You ain’t going to hear nothing from us, that’s for damn sure,” a veteran [...]

Belichick Reveals He Interviewed for Raiders’ Job in 1998

Patriots coach Bill Belichick knows a lot about the Raiders he said, because he interviewed for the head coaching job there with team owner Al Davis according to Paul Kenyon of the Providence Journal. “It was good. It was good experience for me. I went out there after the ’98 season,” he related. “We had [...]

Two Weeks In: What We’ve Learned About the 2011 Patriots

* So far the increasing amount of injuries don’t seem to have bothered the Patriots. From center Dan Koppen to now TE Aaron Hernandez, the team seems to have been gaining depth enough to put up with guys going down, and it looks like that will pay off as early as this week against the [...]

Belichick – “We Certainly Got a Long Way to Go”

Coach Bill Belichick didn’t view the 38-24 win over the Dolphins on Monday Night Football as a masterpiece, specifically not a work of art. “We certainly got a long way to go,” Belichick said in the aftermath. “That was no Rembrandt performance but fortunately it was good enough.” … “I thought it was competitive tonight [...]

Despite Solid Win in Tampa, Belichick Says Pats Have a Long Way to Go

Don’t expect Bill Belichick to be content just because his team outscored its first two preseason opponents 78-26. He’s not raving about a defense that allowed just one touchdown in those two games or an offense that scored 10 touchdowns. Not the demanding coach of the Patriots, not even after Thursday night’s 31-14 domination of [...]

Belichick Says NFL Wants To Squash Kickoffs

With the new NFL rules stating that kickoffs are to be taken from the 35-yard line instead of the 30 — though the Bears didn’t feel they needed to follow that rule, since apparently they wanted to work on their kickoff coverage — it seems pretty clear the NFL wants to reduce the number of [...]

Belichick Now the Highest Paid Coach in North America

With the retirement of Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson, Patriots coach Bill Belichick is now the highest paid coach in North America according to Tom Van Riper of Forbes.com In 11 seasons on the New England Patriots’ sideline, Bill Belichick has won 72% of his games, made eight postseason appearances and taken three Super [...]

The Mystery of the Patriots-Eagles Draft-Day Trade Swap…. turns out original explanation was bull.

When the Patriots traded their 193rd pick for the Philadelphia Eagles 194th pick, people were confused, wanting to know what else the Patriots could possible be getting. Then, when the trade officially went through the league office, it was verified, that that was the trade in it’s entirety. It made no sense. So naturally, people [...]