Bill Belichick

Article:Belichick is no Walsh in one respect:/c/a/2009/11/23/SP5A1APANL.DTL 11-23) 17:47 PST -- The Bill Belichick coaching family tree has just endured a horrendous week, and we use the word "endured" liberally, because a couple of his...

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...Belichick's decision making." Nor, for that matter, would Clark. "In the New England locker room, when Bill Belichick is your coach and he's done all those amazing things and he says you're going for it, you say, 'OK, coach,' and you sit...

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...no head coach with multiple Super Bowl victories, would have made that call -- except the most arrogant great coach of them all, Bill Belichick. And the decision to try and pick up those two yards in Indianapolis on Sunday night instead of...

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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) - Bill Belichick defended his decision to go for it on fourth down as criticism mounted Monday of the call that led to the New England Patriots stunning loss. The coach hailed as one of the NFL's best was a target of...

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...smarter than they normally are. So much so, in fact, we now have an army of suitable replacements for Bill Belichick. Sarcasm aside, it's not like Belichick is above criticism. He's not. But I'm already fed up with the "punt the ball moron"...

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Analysis This is not a defense of what Bill Belichick did. Clearly, most coaches--virtually all coaches--would have opted to punt the ball on fourth and two with about two minutes to play, protecting a 34-28 lead. The bottom-line analysis...

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Bill Belichick's strange decision to go for it with 2:08 left in the game on his own 28 was compounded by two factors. First, the fact that the coach had burned all his timeouts before the play, allowing him no chance to either review a...

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...it as a second home. Few should doubt, though, which would make a better coach someday. Heck, Manning might be a better coach than Bill Belichick already. With Sunday night's Patriots-Colts game on the line, Manning forced Belichick...

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