A Note on How Belichick Treats his Assistants

Such weird proclamations about the guy just because things aren't going well.

What about non-Belichick assistants, are they mostly good HC's? If so i must have slept through it. Being a HC is supremely difficult, there's only a handful of good ones. And most guys get their first crack on absolutely dreadful teams.

I seem to remember that's how this happened. Mara went to Foxboro to talk to Bill, and was introduced to Judge.

had been giving Judge head coaching lessons for a few years - including the team-building side of things. This was reported when he got the job.

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When Joe Judge was promoted to Patriots special-teams coordinator in 2015, he gained access to an exclusive club that put him on the fast track to becoming the Giants’ head coach. Every offseason, Patriots coach Bill Belichick conducted tutorials with his coordinators on all aspects of running an NFL team. So in 2015, Judge got a seat alongside offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels and then-defensive coordinator Matt Patricia to learn lessons from arguably the greatest coach in NFL history. “We would just talk about different aspects of building a program, whether it was comparing different organizations or how different teams set up their rosters or how different teams manage their budgets,” Judge told The Athletic. “Five years of doing that with him was really tremendous.”

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If you are on staff and you are a sharp guy you should be able to observe everything needed and put the pieces together and apply if given the opportunity as HC.

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but does it go into what McDaniels is paid in Foxboro compared to what he'd get coaching the Lions or Jags?

Everyone really likes "coaching tree" talk and pulls all sorts of theories from in when sometimes the obvious is the correct answer. McDaniels makes a fortune as an OC and is almost guaranteed to go to a worse scenario for what, marginally better pay at best?

to coach the Broncos, he makes upwards of $4m per year as OC of the Patriots. He likely needs an offer well over $5m per year to leave NE. He might even have a handshake deal to be HC after BB leaves too.

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before becoming the HC of the NYG.

So I don’t care how much exposure he got to Belichick, which I certainly don’t underestimate, it’s just not the same as when the lights are on and you actually have to manage the team and game. That’s an enormous challenge that isn’t for everyone.

Personally, I just think that takes time to determine if someone has those goods or not. And that may not manifest itself until another stop or two…

did talk about was how BB became the DC. Bill was actually brought to the Giants by Ernie Adams. Perkins hired Adams.

Parcells was the DC before being elevated to HC. I think BB was Special Teams. Bill made him a defensive coach and LT was not happy. He said something like, "He looked like a computer guy". Parcells told LT he will be okay and in fact he was using schemes that BB had given him.

One of the best things Perkins did was leave a great group of assistants for Bill to work and quite a few came from the Patriots.

I think Judge maybe does not have the best staff and for the most part seems to go with comfort hiring's. The ability to put together a elite staff is paramount. It does not always mean selecting big names. Sometimes its evaluating potential of lesser knowns.

that there is some learning on the job that is occurring with JJ. However, when you are working with talent that would appear to be below average and the constant flow of injuries (especially to players that are supposed to be the foundation of the team) not sure how fair of an evaluation one can make on a coaches performance.

In the end JJ may be another in the long list of BB disciples that fail, but right now I think the biggest issue is personnel and miscalculation on where to spend big.

by Belichick, offering his "wisdom" only after McDaniel had accepted a HC job. I guess it worked, and McDaniel will have to decide how much his decision has hurt his future chances at a HC job, but I don't see how this paints BB in a good light.

and Parcells is probably #2.

Everyone else is far down the list.

BB is either selfish or unable to create a template of dominance.

just like all the other Belichick guys. I thought Flores and Judge were going to change the narrative a bit off their decent first years, but not so much.

Who is able to figure things out and adjust on the fly, but does so based on his own thinking and internal intuition. This is what made him a legendary DC and HC.

But, that's also a quality that's not really a teachable thing because that's all based on his own internal thinking and internal intuition. How do you teach your internal thoughts to someone else? You can't.

In comment 15421087 Section331 said:

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by Belichick, offering his "wisdom" only after McDaniel had accepted a HC job. I guess it worked, and McDaniel will have to decide how much his decision has hurt his future chances at a HC job, but I don't see how this paints BB in a good light.

He probably wanted to hold something back until he himself was in the twilight of his career.

In comment 15420847 Ten Ton Hammer said:

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I seem to remember that's how this happened. Mara went to Foxboro to talk to Bill, and was introduced to Judge.

No, he wasn't. Mara scouted Judge himself, and it's been covered repeatedly. The ONLY thing we ,know for sure BB said about judge to mara was when JHohn asked is he any good, and Bill replied " better than anyone you have over there. The rest is a fiction you made up. Mara scouted judge himself. and followed him for a couple of years before he even asked BB about him, and Bellichik was not particularly forthcoming.

Mara hiring Judge was not based on a recommendation, was based on his own observations and initiative. Was off his bat, not belichiks, or gettleman, or accorsi, or anyone else.

before he was introduced. Mara scoped him when they went to look at McDaniels,(or whoever it was they were gonna hire when they picked shurmur) and kept him in mind.