Chris CrockettOpen Letter To Bill Belichick.. Why Coach, Why??
November 16th 2009 06:35
Dear Bill Belichick,
I have the utmost of respect for you and your ability to lead an NFL football team. You have provided countless joyous occasions for my family and friends and myself during your tenure here in New England.
Good, that part is over with now.You have now provided my family and friends as well as myself, with the most gut-wrenching, miserable loss in recent regular season history. Bill, WHAT IN GOD'S NAME ARE YOU THINKING UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES LAST NIGHT? You had all the confidence in the world that the offense would get that one yard and win you the game? Heads up coach, it was TWO yards, but hey I'll comp you a yard. I don't care if it's 4th and 1. If you are on your own 30 yard line with 2:08 left in the game, you PUNT the football. I don't care if Joe Montana is running your offense. I don't care if it's the best quarterback you've ever seen in your life. You PUNT the football, coach. That is the most offensive display of football coaching I've ever seen in all my years of watching. You have always taken chances like this early in games and in the opponents territory or on your own 40-50 yard line. OK. I'll accept that. However, we are in a game last night that will be a huge opportunity to put yourself in GREAT position for home field in the AFC Title Game. You DON'T pull this type of amateur move on this night. What an awful decision, and CLEARLY the most egregious decision I've ever seen you make in your tenure here in New England. Terrible.You took this right out of the book of Grady Little's 'playing a hunch' book and it is awful. Plain awful. You don't play hunches at this juncture of a huge football game. You are the master of fundamental, sound coaching. What the hell went wrong here?
You showed the world how you could greatly exploit that banged up defensive secondary of the Colts early in this game. Why didn't you stick with this coach? Why? Why did you get so conservative at so many points throughout this game?
Yes, there was a huge fumble on the goal line by Laurence Maroney. If he doesn't fumble, we aren't talking about any of this today. Yet, this is why we have so much faith in you coach. So many times you've covered up for your players when they screw up. This time, you failed miserably. Awful. Just plain awful.
Best regards,
Chuck
~TCFB~
| 57 |
| Vote |
subscribe to this blog
Comment by matty ice
Comment by Josh Gans
I'm also semi-crazy and think maybe he purposely lost. Does home field matter in the AFC Championship for the Patriots? We've been there, we know how to play. Maybe we just needed to know what we'd be up against in the 2 minute drill at Indy up by 6 for a chance to go to the Superbowl.
In that game last night, we now have every situational aspect of our game against the Colts saved on film to prepare for the AFC Championship, whether we're at home or away. Because believe it, we will make the playoffs this year.
Comment by David M
He may have hoped that if the Pats got stuffed then Indy would most likely score a TD fast and the Pats would have ample time left to get into FG range. A horrible gamble. Moronic decision.
Comment by Chuck H
TCFB
Not only the horrible decision not to punt. Also his decision to not have his team prepared to let them(Indy) score after the turnover on downs. Addai broke that run and they TACKLED his ass... allowing the clock to keep running since Pats had no timeouts left. Before the D takes the field, you discuss with them that on a breakaway run like that by Addai, to just let him walk in and score. You get the ball back with over a minute left to play and all you need is a FG to win the game. Poor coaching all around. Something's different about Belichick when he's coaching in Indy against Manning. He makes some uncharacteristically bad decisions in my opinion.