Proud of the team for this season

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

Nobody is perfect. Name me any other coach including Bellichik who could have done this kind of job? No one!! For what this team has accomplished dealing with the murder of their best defensive player during the season and having lost 12 out of 22 players pretty much the whole season and still make the playoffs (if we make it) deserves coach of the year regardless of mistakes made. Some of those mistakes (double timeout) were caused by grieving and not having your head on straight.

Well using Bellichick is a very bad example. He had two years back in 2001 & 2003 where he had over 40 different starters. If I'm correct they had WR's playing corner one year or may be it was a corner playing WR.

Bill Belichick - Official New England Patriots Biography

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Well using Bellichick is a very bad example. He had two years back in 2001 & 2003 where he had over 40 different starters. If I'm correct they had WR's playing corner one year or may be it was a corner playing WR.

Bill Belichick - Official New England Patriots Biography

Troy Brown.

That season still doesn't compare to ours.

[SouperMeister]

Originally Posted by Buster

Troy Brown.

That season still doesn't compare to ours.

And that Pats team didn't blow 5 second half leads, hence my reasoning that Gibbs should not be considered for coach of the year. With better red zone and clock management, this easily could have been a 10-11 win season with a cake walk to a wild card.

I am proud of the effort in the face of incredible adversity, and I praise Gibbs for holding the team together, but let's not give him a pass for some of the coaching clunkers (NY Giants and Philly) that put the team in a bind before Taylor died.

All that said, I do hope Gibbs returns. He has given us greater stability than any other coach during the Snyder regime. I hope that we continue to add talent through the draft - some of the best players on this team were Gibbs draft picks.

[SFREDSKIN]

Originally Posted by firstdown

Well using Bellichick is a very bad example. He had two years back in 2001 & 2003 where he had over 40 different starters. If I'm correct they had WR's playing corner one year or may be it was a corner playing WR.

Bill Belichick - Official New England Patriots Biography

It was mainly WR and CB for them plus they have Tom Brady, for us is everything OL, WR, DB, S, LB, DT, you can't win like that and Joe is making it happen.

[SouperMeister]

Originally Posted by SFREDSKIN

It was mainly WR and CB for them plus they have Tom Brady, for us is everything OL, WR, DB, S, LB, DT, you can't win like that and Joe is making it happen.

At one point during that stretch, I recall NE winning with all three starting linebackers out with injuries. While I hate the Pats, let's not minimize the rash of injuries they overcame to win that 2nd Super Bowl.

[CrazyCanuck]

I'm down in sunny Florida and finally found an Internet connection.

Love this thread cuz I couldn't be prouder of the boys right now.

Kudos to Coach Gibbs and the entire team. Let's keep it going!