(02-04-2019, 12:51 AM)Bullseye Wrote:

(02-04-2019, 12:05 AM)Haterade Wrote: Good defense or bad offense?

Belichick has a long history of befuddling otherwise great offenses.

While with the Giants, he devised schemes that held the Montana-Rice led 49ers to:

3 points in 1986
7 points in 1990
13 points in 1990

In Super Bowl XXV (1990 season), he devised schemes that held the Kelly-Thomas-Reed led Bills to 19 points.

While with the Patriots, he devised schemes that held the Warner-Faulk- led Greatest Show on turf Rams to 17 points in Super Bowl XXXVI

While with the Patriots, he devised schemes to hold the Manning-Harrison led Colts to:

14 points in 2003
3 points in 2004


and the Luck led Colts to

7 points in 2014.

Now he held the Rams with McVay and all of the offensive bells and whistles to 3 points.

Although the Patriots don't have a particularly dominant pass rusher, they were in Goff's face all game long.  They shut down the Rams running game.  The Rams could not get anything going.

All of those can't be sloppy offensive performances.

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(02-04-2019, 12:14 AM)SamusAranX Wrote: As Brady gets older that’s how they will have to win more and more. Makes me wonder if BB sees the writing on the wall

I agree that is a factor.

But that makes my point stronger.

The schemes he uses cause the opposing QB's to not think clearly, and they typically fall in to bad habits, make mistakes, and look sloppy. 

It is more than that though. The two most misses parts of Belichick's process is:
1. How well he motivates his players.
2. His team, especially the lines get better as the season goes on.

So many years, he has a "no name defense" that "outplays" perception. It gets every player to reach for their best, most focused and peak ability. He has sometimes had a great player or two, but it never stacked like some of the famous defenses most think of (Denver, Tampa, Baltimore, Bears, etc.) The fact that his players are always improving despite playing such a long season, is the most impressive. There are few teams who have done that, and most only do it once, not the majority of 18 seasons.

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