Bill Belichick
Bill Belichick
William Stephen Belichickis an American football coach, and the long-time head coach of the New England Patriots of the National Football League. Belichick has extensive authority over the Patriots' football operations, effectively making him the General Manager of the team as well. He was previously the head coach of the Cleveland Browns...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth16 April 1952
CityNashville, TN
CountryUnited States of America
Dan is a very good all-around linebacker, one of the better ones in the league,
They played better than we did. They deserved to win. They outplayed us, they outcoached us, they out performed us.
They have good players. Not just (Stroud and Henderson), but certainly they're a big focus of it and they're right in the middle. You have to deal with them every play. It's not like you have a corner where you can throw to the other side or you have an outside linebacker (where) you can run away from him. It's two tackles. There is no play where you can run that you don't have to block them.
They do what they need to do. They can play their ?Cover 2? and they play it well. They play some zone and they can pressure. They probably don?t pressure as much as some teams, but they can definitely bring it. It?s a good defensive football team. They do everything pretty well.
There was some pressure. Not all of those were blitzes. So, some were, and some weren't.
There was no doubt about it out there today, San Diego is the better team. We didn't make any of the plays we needed to in the second half. They made an awful lot, especially in the second half.
There were different guys on that team. It was a different team.
There were certainly some very questionable decisions in that game. I'm surprised that was a playoff crew.
There were still a lot of mistakes and a long way to go, ... but certainly it was something to coach off of.
There is one of two ways that you can approach that,
It's all just part of it. Whatever you have to deal with, whatever changes there are, then collectively as a team you manage them.
It's not like he'll get through the line of scrimmage and you'll run him down for a 10-, 12-, 15-yard gain,
It's not like he isn't making mistakes, ... (but) he doesn't repeat them very often and he usually shows significant improvement on things that are covered. He understands and is able to get it right the next time.
Football's a contact sport. Tackling, that's what defensive football is, getting the guy with the ball on the ground.