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
As the defender, if I have outside leverage on you and then I get beat outside, then that's really a problem.
Corey joins Kevin Faulk and our other very good backs to deepen an already competitive running back position,
Doug had kicked a lot of good ones in practice. We'd done it a few times and he banged it right through there, so he didn't have time to think about it today.
You get two kicks blocked in a game, your odds of winning go down significantly. So, that's an area we have to get straightened out.
You get into the situation where you have an experienced player that gives you a certain quality of play, and you have a younger player who you think is going to be better but he's not better now,
There's no situation I've been in, before or since, that even would remotely approach that one for negativity and affecting the overall focus of the team. Not within 100 miles. It touched every single person in the building, every secretary, every ball boy. I felt badly for everyone involved.
The toughest task now is, 'How are you going to top this?' Because we're going to win another one.
We executed it pretty well, ... I thought we could have done all right in the 3-4. We just got off to a rocky start.
We played them last year in preseason (a 31-0 Jaguars romp in an exhibition finale the Patriots' regulars sat and watched). We played them the year before that in the regular season. I think there's some application on those games. I'm not sure how much. We'll look at those But this team is this year's team just like we are and everybody else is.
Well, ... we know that if we have to put him over there that is an option. That is an emergency measure. Just like last year, we hope that we don't get to that.
We'll try to use the preseason as well as training camp to help evaluate that mix, ... Not just individually, but collectively, the groups working together and kind of what looks like the best combination and that type of thing.
We'll try to comply with the rules and if we don't, I'm sure we'll be penalized for it, just like everybody else will.
We have a lot of guys in that category. It could come down to some game-time decisions. But I think we're heading in the right direction. How quickly that will all come together or not come together, I'm not sure.
We have to play better in that phase of the game. We didn't cover it well or return it well. There is not one magic thing that can take care of it. We have to play better.