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Belichick conflict

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by Rdrunn004, Feb 6, 2018.

  1. Rdrunn004

    Rdrunn004 Active Member

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    Alright so I need a little help here from those much more informed and connected than I on this board.

    With all the recent rift in NE with Brady, Kraft and Belichick, is it a real possibility that Belichick would leave NE?

    If so, would the Dolphins be willing or even able to eliminate Grier and Tbaum to bring in Belichick as a GM and keep Gase?

    If we are not able to do so, what would be the likelihood that he ends up in the division (NYJ or BUF) and we end up screwed regardless?
     
  2. Steve-Mo

    Steve-Mo 'Saban' Guy

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    I think the conflict is media fabrication/hype, but I'm fairly certain that 1. BB hates the Jets and would never work for them 2. As our new Parcells, he'd fire Gase and hire his own coach. 3. None of these scenarios matter anyway.
     
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  3. Fame

    Fame Well-Known Member

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    The rift between them is very real, but Belichick isn't going anywhere. I doubt at this point in his career he wants to rebuild a team. His system is firmly in place in NE and it works very well, so he will most likely just swallow his pride and roll with Brady for a few more years.
     
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  4. RGF

    RGF THE FINSTER Club Member

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    To implement his cheating ways with a new organization at this stage of the game is unlikely. His illegal edge is firmly planted at Gillette stadium I'm sure and to bring his "system" elsewhere probably wouldnt be an easy task. Also, I doubt he would be comfortable fielding questions as to why his success as a HC was left in N.E. should he falter somewhere else, which is highly possible given the reasons I mentioned.
     
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  5. danmarino

    danmarino Tua is H1M! Club Member

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    I'm curious if his decision to keep Butler from playing will cause a bigger backlash than people realize.

    We all see how Brady reacts to losing, and I'm sure there are a few others on the team with that same mentality. Will there be a mutiny?

    Did Belichick leave Butler out to prove the point that the "report" pointed out? The one where he thinks he's the reason for their success and not Brady? Did he prove that Brady can't win on his own? If Kraft really loves Brady and kind of tolerates BB, like the report stated, will Kraft do something?

    Just some musings...
     
  6. Simon

    Simon The Other English Simon Club Member

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    Some very interesting questions...
     
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  7. MonstBlitz

    MonstBlitz Nobody's Fart Catcher

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    Belicheat isn't going anywhere he won't have Ernie Adams and his stolen signals to make him look like a genius.
     
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    Carmen Cygni Well-Known Member

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  9. texanphinatic

    texanphinatic Senior Member

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    Eh, BB the GM is not really appealing. Without him coaching, I don't see the point.
     
  10. KeyFin

    KeyFin Well-Known Member

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    I think we'd see a better chance of Brady retiring than anything at this point....but I'm not expecting that to happen. Belichek has said in the past that the only team he'd be up for coaching besides NE is the Giants, so I don't see him going anywhere soon. Rift or not, he's built an entire organization around him and that's tough to walk away from.
     
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  11. dolfan40

    dolfan40 Well-Known Member

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    They need an oc and a dc now both were hired as Headcoach.

    Matt Patricia- Detroit Lions
    Josh Mcdaniels- Indianapolis Colts
     
  12. danmarino

    danmarino Tua is H1M! Club Member

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  13. Vertical Limit

    Vertical Limit Senior Member

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    Josh McDaniels will be a failure of a HC for the patriots. Bank on it. Guy cant evaluate talent worth a damn
     
  14. DolfanR

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    He went back to the patriots so no more head coach for joshy
     
  15. Steve-Mo

    Steve-Mo 'Saban' Guy

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    Just wondering how we know this. Because he wanted and got Tebow? Not sure how much say he had regardless. Wouldn't a coach in his early 30s rely on his scouting department/GM for the draft?

    Edit: Changed as I thought he was there 2011. Point still stands though.
     
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  16. danmarino

    danmarino Tua is H1M! Club Member

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    McDaniels spurning the Colts makes what I wrote even more plausible.

    Is Kraft pissed at BB and want him gone? So he went to McDaniels and told him that he'd give him the keys to the franchise?

    Mcdaniels failed in Denver, but he knows the ins and outs of the Pats cheating methods. And he knows that as long as Ernie Adams sticks around he'll be successful.
     
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  17. Galant

    Galant Love - Unity - Sacrifice - Eternity

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    Do Dolphins fans really want Belichick as head coach?

    Wouldn't that be selling out?
     
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  18. danmarino

    danmarino Tua is H1M! Club Member

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    Under no circumstances would I want BB as out coach.

    Actually, if there was some way to prove that he didn't cheat during his time in NE I would consider it. However, we all know that can't happen.
     
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  19. texanphinatic

    texanphinatic Senior Member

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    I think there could be 2 factors here with the McDaniels weirdness.

    #1 is that Luck's shoulder is worse than the fans know and think. McDaniels got wind of that and peaced out (remember he knows Brissett already).
    #2 is that Kraft made him a godfather offer of a big salary increase for 1-2 years which BB will retire after.

    There is no chance that BB comes here.

    I am starting to wonder though, if Luck will ever play another down in the NFL. Grigson should be loaded into a cannon and fired into the sun for that travesty.
     
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  20. Carmen Cygni

    Carmen Cygni Well-Known Member

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    What kind of question is that? LOL

    Have people really lost their minds funneling the aqua & coral kooliad to the point that they wouldn't want Belichick? Is this reality?

    Yeah, I'll take the greatest coach in NFL history if he were to miraculously choose us.
     
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  21. Galant

    Galant Love - Unity - Sacrifice - Eternity

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    Reality is that some people don't want victory of it means doing it a certain way. The Patriots are divisional rivals. That means something to some people. Not everyone, but some.

    If BB, Brady, and Kraft wanted to move to the Dolphins would you be okay with it?
     
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  22. danmarino

    danmarino Tua is H1M! Club Member

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    I'll take integrity over the Dolphins winning football games.

    Calling Belichick the greatest coach in history is like saying Lance Armstrong was the best cyclist ever.
     
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  23. Carmen Cygni

    Carmen Cygni Well-Known Member

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    Yeah, just one big dysfunctional FO in NE, amirite?!

     
  24. mooseguts

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    Yes a thousand times Yes....if it meant playoffs and a possible super bowl i would gladly sell out.
     
  25. aesop

    aesop Well-Known Member

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    Who is better than Lance?
     
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    There are other great cyclists like Merckx, Hinault and Anquetil. All won 5 Tour de France's to Lance's 7, but they also dominated other Tours with Merckx winning a total of 11 Grand Tours, Hinault 10 and Anquetil 8. Funny thing is that Anquetil confessed to drug use but didn't get his titles stripped, and Merckx repeatedly failed drug tests and got expelled from other Tours, just never got caught in the Tour de France lol.

    Competitive cycling was and continues to be full of doping. Lance's main nemesis Jan Ullrich who won the Tour once was also found guilty, and the current 4-time champion Froome was just found guilty of doping at the Vuelta a Espana last year and will be stripped of that title and probably suspended LOL.

    So I personally think Lance should be recognized as a legitimate 7-time Tour de France winner because it seems like he won those titles on an even playing field (20 of 21 other podium finishers during Lance's reign were also found guilty of doping!). Who knows.. maybe far in the future there will be some revisionist history that reinstates those titles.

    In this sense, the Lance Armstrong - Belichick comparison is a bit off mark unless you want to argue that the level of cheating in the NFL is as prevalent as it is in competitive cycling (the poster child for cheating in sports).
     
  27. aesop

    aesop Well-Known Member

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    Spot on.

    And in defense of Lance.. He DID have cancer.
     
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  28. mooseguts

    mooseguts Well-Known Member

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    Cheating is probably pretty rampant in the NFL, HGH use, performance enhancing drugs and such.
     
  29. danmarino

    danmarino Tua is H1M! Club Member

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    Who knows. If Lance hadn't cheated maybe we'd know. Maybe everybody? Maybe 3 people? Maybe no one?

    On one hand you have his accomplishments. And on the other you have his cheating.

    A guy riding a bicycle in the Boston marathon isn't the greatest marathon runner ever just because he finishes in record time.
     
  30. danmarino

    danmarino Tua is H1M! Club Member

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    Playing on an even playing field doesn't involve cheating. I get your point, but excusing cheating this way isn't my cup of tea.

    I idolized Lance. He was one of my favorite athletes ever and when I heard there were rumors of him cheating I thought it was ridiculous.

    Even if every other cyclist during his time was cheating you still can't say he's one of the best. Why? Maybe his cheating was better? maybe his body reacted better to blood doping than someone else. Maybe if no one cheated Lance would have never won a tour?

    This is the problem with cheating. You just don't know. And BB cheated. And we don't really know how good of a coach he really is. If not for Spygate maybe they fail to get to any Super Bowls in the early 2000's? Maybe they fail to win more than 8 or 9 games per season during that span? Maybe Kraft fires BB because of this? The Pats cheating potentially changed an entire timeline of events that would have neither BB or anyone else in New England as being great or the GOAT.
     
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  31. RGF

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    What Belichick are you referring to ? The Browns Belichick, or the cheating Patriots Belichick ? How would you know which one you'd get ?
     
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  32. Carmen Cygni

    Carmen Cygni Well-Known Member

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    I'll take either. I'll also take the Giants DC Belichick as well, while we're on the subject. All are far more competent than any coach we've sniffed since Shula.

    When's the last time the Browns won a playoff game? Care to guess who there HC was? Also I take it you are unaware of the significance of Belichick's time in Cleveand in developing, along with DC Saban, the most advanced and modern pass coverage in football - pattern match. Belichick had also just began to turn around the Browns when Modell sold the team midseason and shipped the franchise to Baltimore.

    So I'll take any and all Belichick scenarios, and I know exactly what I'm getting.
     
  33. danmarino

    danmarino Tua is H1M! Club Member

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    That' some good revisionist history. Yes, BB while in Cleveland won a playoff game during his 4th season there. The very next season they went 5-11 with the 20th ranked defense AFTER he and Saban started using pattern match. He went 36-44.
     
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  34. Carmen Cygni

    Carmen Cygni Well-Known Member

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    And it would benefit you to learn football history.
     
  35. danmarino

    danmarino Tua is H1M! Club Member

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    Name one thing in my post that was incorrect.
     
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  36. Carmen Cygni

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    Context. The year that followed their playoff victory, Modell sold the team midseason and ripped the rug out from under the coaches, team, and fans. But I'm sure you envision holding that against Belichick somehow b/c it furthers your ridiculous agenda.
     
  37. danmarino

    danmarino Tua is H1M! Club Member

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    BS. It shows that BB wasn't the great coach in Cleveland that you claimed and you don't like it. lol
     
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    It's not really the year that followed their playoff victory that shows Belichick wasn't that good in Cleveland. It's what he did before all that. The Browns went to the playoffs 5 times from 1985-1989 and 3 times to the AFC championship game once Kosar became the QB.

    After a bad season they hired Belichick in 1991. Belichick was 6-10, 7-9, and 7-9 his first 3 years with a team that was only 1 year removed from 5 consecutive years of playoff appearances and an appearance in the AFC championship. Furthermore, Belichick didn't immediately become HC of another team afterwards, instead rejoining Parcells to became an assistant HC for 4 years before getting the NE head coaching gig. So it's not like he was in great demand after Cleveland.
     
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  39. Fin D

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    WADR, that is just a made up thing to try an justify an ethically indefensible stance.
     
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  40. Carmen Cygni

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    Hardly. The NFL is currently working on efficient testing for HGH b/c it is a problem.
     

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