Bill Parcells is the reason the Browns have been terrible for 25 years

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Originally Posted by Amnorix

Interesting note from today's MMQB related to this:

Peter King's nutlicking of the Patriots is beyond annoying. He kept trying to peg Pioli as a martyr in KC from the very beginning.

That being said, maybe owners are wising up and refusing to force these guys install "the Parcells/Bellichick way." None of these teams, including the Patriots, run that stone age 3-4 2-gap. None of these guys have a tree coach, except NE (obviously). You'll recall that the ONLY reason Dimitroff/Pioli found success is that Arthur Blanks completely emasculated Pioli and refused to let Pioli/Dimitroff have any say in the head coach -- he and everybody's mom knew that Pioli was looking to pick another tree guy. It also helps that all 4 non-Bellichick guys had a consensus top 3 QB pick fall into their laps.

New England obviously breeds a lot of talented personnel guys. The problem is when they get sucked into the Bellichick/Parcells cult. These guys insist you can plug the same exact approach rather than carving their own way. I don't think Pioli made awful draft decisions, but his arrogance in jamming 2-gap and a Bellichick QB ****ed over everything he tried to do. We're seeing the same shit in Houston. And it's a long line of these types of Bellichick/Parcells cult guys that have destroyed the Browns. Even today, considering Parcells was consulted by DePodesta, you can't help but wonder if it was Parcells who urged them not to draft Carson Wentz -- Wentz doesn't pass the Parcells rules.

King raises a good point but it also misses the point entirely. The success of these GMs isn't because they follow the Patriot Way. It's that they've so far been good about making their own way instead of following the cult. But there are still lots of cult members in their ranks.