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Originally Posted by B_Ambuehl
The Pats would likely be a lot better off if they hadn't run good players off the football team (Seymour, Moss), hadn't tried to outsmart theirselves with draft picks (passing up legit talent for a plethora of average 2nd round picks), plugged holes on the team with legit NFL talent (a RB tandem of Green-Ellis and Woodhead is a travesty with all the 1st day picks they've had lately), and filled coaching holes on the football team with legit NFL coaching talent (WTF is Matt Patricia? - Do they even have an OC?).
In summary, it's genius if it works but I see a clear trend since '07 of Belichik doing things completely different than any other NFL team, completely different than he used to, and thus far the trend has been negative where it counts. The media wants to crown Belichik king for what he did from 2000-2004, and deservedly so, but the modus operandi of the football team was considerably different then. Al Davis used to be pretty good too before he went batshit crazy.
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Actually, I thought that the past 5 years or so, Bellichick built an inconsistent winner by doing everything they didn't do in 2000-2004. Ironically, it's some of the same stuff you're criticizing him for. I thought 2010 was a return to the Patriot Way and it started with cutting Adalius and Randy Moss.
I don't think he's as good as he used to be. But 2010 seems like a year when they're bringing everything back on track.