Belichick Q&A: Every player has a trade price

Jason Cole: Earlier this season when your offense was struggling – Wes Welker(notes) and Randy Moss(notes) were hurt and quarterback Tom Brady(notes) was still working his way back in after a year off – you resisted the temptation to completely go back to the type of running game that fueled your title teams earlier this decade. Why?

Belichick: I think it’s a question of how you want to use your personnel and where you think your players are … good offensive teams in this league are teams that are more balanced, can throw the ball and have playmakers out on the field. To get in there and run the power 20 times … yeah, it’s OK. It shortens the game and it controls things if that’s what you want to be and if you have a good defense and that’s the way you want to play. But I think we’re capable of doing more than that and it takes our quarterback out of the game. It takes a slot receiver like Wes Welker out of the game and that’s not what we want to do. If you’re trying to not put as much on our quarterback like we were in ’01 and a little bit in ’02, at that point, that was the way to go. And some of that is a function of who your running back is. Some guys are better running behind a fullback, some are better in a 1-back system, just like your passing game is a little bit of a function of who your quarterback is.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AsMEeAwtl0x2i7GjIv9L.xlDubYF?slug=jc-belichickqa110609

A lot of stuff about football. I post it here because they talk about other teams and it can be applied to the bears. How would you compare some of the stuff in the article to the bears?

I really like the last question and answer. I think that would describe the bears situation.

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Random funny things.

Things you won't hear from certain coaches.

Turner: I can't tell you how many time the "ask madden" feature bailed me out in critical situations.

Bear nicknames

Tommie the walker Harris

What amazes me is that Lovie never talks like this. Some posters feel that Belichek only gives mummy dummy answers to questions, ala Lovie. But this is the type of coaching response that would cause Bear's fans to think that Lovie actually has a clue what's going on. Instead, we get the stuff like, "We're pleased with our line...we'd like for Jay not to get sacked that many times", etc. Refreshing to hear a top coach actually describe his decision process...AND it didn't give his competition any 'insider secrets'...ala don't let anybody know that Beekman will start over Omiyale...like that was a big deal for our competition!

bearout10:

Belichick Q&A: Every player has a trade price

Jason Cole: Earlier this season when your offense was struggling – Wes Welker(notes) and Randy Moss(notes) were hurt and quarterback Tom Brady(notes) was still working his way back in after a year off – you resisted the temptation to completely go back to the type of running game that fueled your title teams earlier this decade. Why?

Belichick: I think it’s a question of how you want to use your personnel and where you think your players are … good offensive teams in this league are teams that are more balanced, can throw the ball and have playmakers out on the field. To get in there and run the power 20 times … yeah, it’s OK. It shortens the game and it controls things if that’s what you want to be and if you have a good defense and that’s the way you want to play. But I think we’re capable of doing more than that and it takes our quarterback out of the game. It takes a slot receiver like Wes Welker out of the game and that’s not what we want to do. If you’re trying to not put as much on our quarterback like we were in ’01 and a little bit in ’02, at that point, that was the way to go. And some of that is a function of who your running back is. Some guys are better running behind a fullback, some are better in a 1-back system, just like your passing game is a little bit of a function of who your quarterback is.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AsMEeAwtl0x2i7GjIv9L.xlDubYF?slug=jc-belichickqa110609

A lot of stuff about football. I post it here because they talk about other teams and it can be applied to the bears. How would you compare some of the stuff in the article to the bears?

I really like the last question and answer. I think that would describe the bears situation.

As douchey as Belicheck can come off, you can not doubt that man knows football.

Without question he's going into the Hall.

BobInIndy:

What amazes me is that Lovie never talks like this. Some posters feel that Belichek only gives mummy dummy answers to questions, ala Lovie. But this is the type of coaching response that would cause Bear's fans to think that Lovie actually has a clue what's going on. Instead, we get the stuff like, "We're pleased with our line...we'd like for Jay not to get sacked that many times", etc. Refreshing to hear a top coach actually describe his decision process...AND it didn't give his competition any 'insider secrets'...ala don't let anybody know that Beekman will start over Omiyale...like that was a big deal for our competition!

I really agree with your answer. He talks about accuracy being important and I think about Orton not being that accurate. He talks about trading for the right price and I wonder what we could have gotten for Harris.

Also this organization seems to have a buddy system. Once an analyst said something about how in 1985 we had the Buddy Ryan system. Now in 2009 we have Lovies buddy system

I might be wrong but I think I heard once that the Patriots bring in veterans who are Superbowl hungry. We bring in a guy like Pace. Who has already won one and isn't that good anymore.

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Random funny things.

Things you won't hear from certain coaches.

Turner: I can't tell you how many time the "ask madden" feature bailed me out in critical situations.

Bear nicknames

Tommie the walker Harris

The guy is a genius when it comes to football. That is obvious, but he has a very distinct style. He is VERY calculating, and has a loads of experience to work with. I personally don't like the man, but if I was a GM looking for a coach and he was available, I would have zero difficulty pulling the trigger to sign him.

i would consider him one of the best coaches ever in football. He turned Matt Cassell to an 11-5 team when Matt Cassell was a back up in college. Lovie cant even do that with a pro bowl QB. Second notcie they always have future draft picks..last year 2 first rounders and 2010 same thing 2 1st rounders. Now thats a real coach with a great organization.