at the top of the stack. He's won it three times before.
I was surprised to see his one, at three times before he could
win it every year. If technically, it's the best
coach of
the year. He should win it. Every year plus 125, Kliff
Kingsbury. The Cardinals coach at 250. But Bella, check
the favorite. Matt, Le Flore and these in the conversationally,
he needs to get more credit for what he's done with
the Packers, but what Belichick's done this
year, and I know that it's just coach not.
You to the year, but it's hard to separate the two.
The moves he made in the offseason to lay the foundation
for the team that he now has, and it's all working. It's all
been validated. I think that's why we actually saw a smile
from him
after the game on Monday night because that was the
not the ultimate final act. That would be hoisting
a Lombardi trophy. But where he is right now, entering this
very late by week.
What they had planned is coming to fruition. Yeah. No, I
this is a tough one this year.
No, I mean, yes. What cliff?
Barry's done, Arizona,
you know. Yeah, we didn't see it coming.
We knew how talented they were.
We just weren't sure if they were going to put it together.
So certainly needs to be, you know, at the top two in this
discussion, but man, Belichick to,
you know, to totally rehaul the football team
between free agency drafts and a rookie quarterback.
And now we're sitting here after a shaky start
to where we go. Well, we're in mid-December and guess what?
The Patriots are.
Back, I mean, looking like, they're shaping up to be,
you know, one of the best teams in football again, for the next
four or five years, and it's like, they're the best pie in
the best football in the NFL right now. This second
that's where I think it's amazing. And
yeah, you know, it's the gift and the curse there with
Belichick. You're right. He can win it every year. I mean,
2014, as bad as they looked early in the year and then they
just win every game from the basically, they are on and beat
Seattle
in the Super Bowl
crap. He should have wanted that year.
So I guess it's a yours gone on where I think three or four
weeks ago. I was like, Kliff Kingsbury is the guy
I tend to be leaning Belichick right now.
Over Kingsbury. What about you?
I'm learning Belichick now and it's always difficult because
I think that with the coach of the year,
the understanding very Loosely in generally is it's the guy
who exceeded the expectations going into the season. Yeah.
The most and Kingsbury was a hot seat guy, right? Going into
the season, right? It felt like it was in the process of
crumbling on Kick. Kliff Kingsbury, not working
out as well as it has. So
I think it comes down to the two of them. But given
that the Patriots
hit a low point last year
and it felt like it was over.
Yeah, no ink fans.
Turned on him a little.
It would Brady. We illusion they have on Brady would Braves
freddi because they won the Super Bowl so is Brady. It
wasn't Belichick, you know, there was some certainly some,
you know, crap out there that wasn't
true either but you're right. I mean, both are amazing stories.
Glad you give some love to Matt Le Flore who
you know only just deals with the most dysfunctional crap
every year for three years in a row and doesn't blink an eye
and the team kicks. But
I mean, the first year, will him and Rogers coexist. I don't
know, as you know, let them have freedom at the line of
scrimmage to audible. Oh, okay. They got that, right. I was 13
and 3
and then it's the drafting of the quarterback. And then, oh,
it doesn't matter. 13 and 3. And then this year, wanting to
trade and everything. They're out of, Might retire, all those
kind of things. Oh, here we are back again,
you know. No 9 and 3 right now, I mean, it's a damn good job.
Ella floor to
the thing that gets overlooked is the navigation of difficult
personalities. Yeah. Starting with Rogers, right? Because it
was Roger's. If you remember who blew up the whole audible
thing that, he's the one who made that an issue by talking
to Mike silver about it. When he went up there to
interview the floor and Rogers together and LaFleur
understanding, I am dealing with a quarterback, who is
a different
kind of a guy. I mean,
what did Mark Murphy? The CEO of the team. He's a complicated
fella. Yeah, and LaFleur has learned
how to tiptoe around
a delicate genius in Aaron Rodgers and lafleur's learned how to
coexist when he's caught between
Rogers and Murphy and Brian gudykunst. And what's the floor
done? And he's kept his eye
on the prize. Well, they have made it to the Super Bowl yet,
but they've been 13 and 3, 13, and 3 & 9 & 3, amid
the potential at any given moment for all sorts of
A full-blown dysfunction.
That's a credit to the floor
and he doesn't get enough credit for it. No, he does not.
That's exactly right. It's
managing personalities is a huge part of being a successful
successful, head coach. And that's what the good ones on
and that's another one. I'd go, you know, hey, Bella check,
doesn't get enough credit for that and that department
either,
you know, just it. There's very few,
guys that get brought in there or any issues out of that team
almost ever because they have a way with people and Players
that they can make them feel good, even when circumstances
are not great. But
yeah, you're right. You're spot-on about LaFleur, man. Has
he done some great things there?
When Belichick knows how to find guys who fit with what
they want to do, right? Just like Mac Jones, right? He
he does exactly what Bill Belichick wants when Belichick
wants it. How belcheck wants it. No questions asked, no
bristling. No problems. It it helps to have the eight Rings.
Well, yeah, well, extra credibility in the locker room
when you have the eight Rings. Oh, no
doubt about Bout it that but, you know, you know, even to say
that, like, he can bring in guys, like Randy Moss and Aqib
Talib. Where people are like, oh, gosh. These guys got, well,
a lot of Personality they can
and there's never an issue Darrelle Revis. There's never
an issue. You're right. The ring, certainly help. But, you
know, he has brought some person out dealing with Gronk
that was not necessarily,
you know, New England type of guy.
He's got a little bit more of a gift there. Then I think people
give him credit for he's not the robot. Everybody thinks he
is.
Talib said on the Manning cast this week that Belichick had
three roles be on time, know your assignments and be careful
what you say to the media. Other than that
he didn't care and they even got to the point where they're
laughing about doing a morning. Walk through in pajamas. It's
fitting today since according to my wife. I'm wearing my
pajamas building, care, what you wore to work. He didn't
care about that. No, I
wanted you to be there, won't you be engaged and not in
wanted you to not pop off your mouth to the median, create
problems that the team would then have to deal with and it's
very simple.
Approach.
But, you know, you have to be willing to do it. They find
the guys, the year. I was there guys were wearing onesies to
the to the
state said. They start about one of these onesies and that
way I keep was there the year. I was there was the year they
traded for God. You're wearing onesies to be comfortable and
hang around. Yeah, he didn't care. If you went out there in
the damn walk through wearing a onesie.
You knew your you were here on time, you know, your
assignments.
I mean, you know, you, you could put a dress on and some
lipstick. He didn't give a damn. Go ahead is long as
you're doing.
Doing what you're supposed to do. Let's go.
Did it have the feet? Was it? Well, as, in a 1/1 photo
onesies, yes, total onesies. And it became a thing. A little
bit with the team where I would say on a
given, Wednesday, you'd have like eight twelve guys, wearing
onesies because they're like, damn, this is comfortable.
I don't give a damn. I'm a grown man and
they went with it.
Do you have the 2 buttons in the flap, on the back to some
of it? It's almost 12:00.
Some of them have like, a flap on the back. Yes, they did.
They did. It was crazy. Take a break.