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For...get this....building a team....ROFL...yes sorry I mean the bears have just been the model of success, maybe BB could learn a few things...
http://expatsfootball.com/posts/49983
Former Bears general manager Jerry Angelo is a big fan of Bill Belichick but that didn't stop Angelo from criticizing the Patriots and Belichick for the way that the Patriots roster was constructed over the past offseason.
Angelo had this to say via his twitter handle of which he used sulia to link it so he could go over the 140 character limit:
"When you have a great quarterback, you need to give him as many quality receivers as possible, regardless of where they are aligned on the field," he wrote,using Sulia so he wasn't limited to 140 characters. "... When you look at New England, the strengths of their offense was their line and running backs. When you break down Denver, it was their tight end and receivers.
"I believe, if you don’t have an elite QB, you build your offense the way New England did, from the inside out. Protect the quarterback with a good offensive line and run the ball. A large part of your passing game is going to be based off run action. On the other hand, if you have a quarterback who sets the standard at his position, you built it around him from the outside in, meaning with top-notch receivers.
"This is where New England calculated wrong. Brady is an elite quarterback, and they handcuffed him with talented but unproven receivers. ... My point: New England missed the mark and Denver hit it."
>Angelo then explained further.
"New England’s problem is they fell in love with their system. A fatal mistake for successful coaches. I said Bill Belichick did one of his finest coaching jobs this year and I know it. I’m a great admirer and would agree with Bill Cowher when he said that Belichick would go down as the greatest coach in football. But in this case, his thinking was misguided.
"This shows you regardless of how great a coach is, if his philosophy isn’t applicable to the strengths of his personnel, then it’s unsound, not in principal, but in relevance to his personnel. And in football, the labor force starts with CEO of the offense, the quarterback."
The weird thing is that it's not like Belichick has some unwavering faith in a single offensive philosophy. If anything, the past decade has proven that Belichick is more than willing to change offensive schemes to fit his personnel. It's why the Pats went from a ground first approach during the Super Bowl runs to a high powered passing machine in the Moss-Welker years to the potent two-tight end sets of 2010-2012 to the more ground based approach in 2013. The criticisms that Brady didn't have enough weapons in the passing game is more on the mark but Angelo mistakenly attributes that lack of receiving weapons to some sort of Belichick-ian stubborness when the lack of weapons can be explained by other factors (injuries to the receiving corps and Gronk as well as Shane Vereen).
http://expatsfootball.com/posts/49983
Former Bears general manager Jerry Angelo is a big fan of Bill Belichick but that didn't stop Angelo from criticizing the Patriots and Belichick for the way that the Patriots roster was constructed over the past offseason.
Angelo had this to say via his twitter handle of which he used sulia to link it so he could go over the 140 character limit:
"When you have a great quarterback, you need to give him as many quality receivers as possible, regardless of where they are aligned on the field," he wrote,using Sulia so he wasn't limited to 140 characters. "... When you look at New England, the strengths of their offense was their line and running backs. When you break down Denver, it was their tight end and receivers.
"I believe, if you don’t have an elite QB, you build your offense the way New England did, from the inside out. Protect the quarterback with a good offensive line and run the ball. A large part of your passing game is going to be based off run action. On the other hand, if you have a quarterback who sets the standard at his position, you built it around him from the outside in, meaning with top-notch receivers.
"This is where New England calculated wrong. Brady is an elite quarterback, and they handcuffed him with talented but unproven receivers. ... My point: New England missed the mark and Denver hit it."
>Angelo then explained further.
"New England’s problem is they fell in love with their system. A fatal mistake for successful coaches. I said Bill Belichick did one of his finest coaching jobs this year and I know it. I’m a great admirer and would agree with Bill Cowher when he said that Belichick would go down as the greatest coach in football. But in this case, his thinking was misguided.
"This shows you regardless of how great a coach is, if his philosophy isn’t applicable to the strengths of his personnel, then it’s unsound, not in principal, but in relevance to his personnel. And in football, the labor force starts with CEO of the offense, the quarterback."
The weird thing is that it's not like Belichick has some unwavering faith in a single offensive philosophy. If anything, the past decade has proven that Belichick is more than willing to change offensive schemes to fit his personnel. It's why the Pats went from a ground first approach during the Super Bowl runs to a high powered passing machine in the Moss-Welker years to the potent two-tight end sets of 2010-2012 to the more ground based approach in 2013. The criticisms that Brady didn't have enough weapons in the passing game is more on the mark but Angelo mistakenly attributes that lack of receiving weapons to some sort of Belichick-ian stubborness when the lack of weapons can be explained by other factors (injuries to the receiving corps and Gronk as well as Shane Vereen).
