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After Calling for Bill Belichick’s Head for Months Boston’s Sports Hosts are Shocked SHOCKED that Nobody Hires Him

Posted: January 26, 2024 by datechguy in nfl, Sports, Uncategorized
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There were a lot of people surprised when the Atlanta Falcons hired Raheem Morris as their new head coach after bringing in Bill Belichick for a 2nd interview for the position.

Once Jim Harbaugh was hired by the Chargers as their head coach after Jerry Jones surprised everyone by keeping Mike McCarthy in Dallas it became an article of faith that Belichick had the Atlanta Job. In fact they had actually reached a point were at least one person was arguing that the Atlanta Job is beneath him.

And then new news came that Morris is out and Bill is in the out in the cold. In fact the only head coach positions left are Seattle (Unlikely because they just got rid of an old coach who won a Superbowl) and Washington (A bad team that Bill would be lucky to turn into a playoff team in three years).

The radio hosts were amazed, shocked, outraged. They went on about the number superbowl appearances he had. How people didn’t appreciate him, how much he was a big reason why Brady was Brady. 

I couldn’t believe my ears.

For the last four months all you heard on Boston Sports Radio was a loud chorus either calling for Bill Belichick to be fired. Bill was too old, Bill was out of touch, Bill’s methods were out of date, Bill Drafted poorly, Bill didn’t spend wisely, he picked the wrong coaches, etc etc etc. The only question thing in dispute was should he be fired at the end of the season or should he be fired today.

And yet now after months of saying this every single day they are shocked SHOCKED , angry and outraged that no NFL franchise wants to hire Bill Belichick.

But I suspect the real outrage is due to something that was said on one of those networks a few days ago. The host talked about how once Bill gets a job they will have something to talk about to catch the listeners attention other than a losing football team that is going nowhere, which is what they believe the Patriots sans Bill will be.

So spare me the outrage that NFL organization around the nation took your words to heart.

The Obvious Jerad Mayo Patriots Head Coach Question

Posted: January 12, 2024 by datechguy in nfl, Sports
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The Patriots apparently didn’t waste any time in hiring Jerad Mayo as their new head coach.

There is no reason to believe that Jerad Mayo is not a good coach. He has been with the team for half a decade and has done his job well. As a defensive coach his side of the ball has been the bright side all season. There have been indications for a while that Mayo was the heir apparent and as a defensive coach. By any measurable standard he would be a solid coach in the NFL.

All that being said with the Patriots instantly elevating Mayo there is an obvious question:

If you decide that Bill Belichick:

  • The winningest active coach in the league
  • the winningest coach in the franchise’s history
  • and the guy who has brought more
    • division
    • conference
    • and super bowl titles
  • to any team in the Superbowl era

Is the wrong person to coach your team at this time and you decide it’s time to go in a different direction.

Why would a person who:

  • Was drafted by Belichick
  • Played exclusively for Belichick during his career
  • Was hired as a coach by Belichick
  • Learned how to coach under Belichick
  • Has served continuously as a coach under Belichick

Be the right man to take your NFL franchise in a different direction that Bill Belichick?

Five Basic Questions Under the Fedora: Biden Admin, Schultz Disease, How Many Days Will Belichick Have Off?, Getting Drafty, Cue Yamamoto

Posted: January 11, 2024 by datechguy in Blame Biden Administration, culture, education, medicine, nfl, politics
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Can somebody answer this: 

For the sake this basic Question I’ll stipulate that Joe Biden won the last election cleanly and is not the figurehead of a foreign or domestic enemy whose was worried about the success of the US and set a goal to bring US down.

So my question: “If you were a foreign and/or domestic enemy of the United States whose goal was to bring down the country that was prospering under Trump and to that end stole election 2020 to put a puppet regime in place to enact that goal, how would your actions and agenda differ from the Biden Administrations over the last four years?”

Speaking of people trying to bring down the country apparently Dr. Anthony Fauci must not have taken his medication yesterday as he had quite a series of memory lapses.

Testifying under oath before congress he replied “I don’t recall” over 100 times. It’s a rather nasty case of Schultz disease:

So the question: How is it that being under oath tends to undermine the memory of people who are supposedly competent intelligent and in charge? 

Unexpectedly of courseTM

As I was tying this post a tweet from Rapoport & Pelissero tweeted and the NFL reported that Bill Belichick is out in New England. A news conference has been called for Noon.

I question the wisdom here as Mike Vrabel not withstanding it’s unlikely they will find a better coach but be that as it may.

While Bill might enjoy the first days off he had over the last quarter century the next question is obvious:

How many days off is he going to get before he is snatched up by a team?

If I owned a team I wouldn’t wait and let someone else get him. He’ll need time to evaluate prior to the April draft. 

Apparently the number of white recruits in the US army has practically been halved since 2018.

Think about it barely 25K recruits.

This is via gateway pundit and Military.com as is this tweet that says it all:

https://twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1745251068903039388

The question is obvious:

How much longer can the US avoid bringing back the draft?

I’m thinking even with a Trump or DeSantis admin not very long because unless you completely purge the woke you aren’t getting men.

Finally we now have learned that the story concerning Bill Ackman’s wife was shopped to multiple press outlets who rejected it out of hand before Business Insider decided to run with it and then have it blow up in their faces to the point where the owner of the company is rather worried:

Ackman seems to be on the warpath and the folks who green lighted this must be feeling like Admiral Yamamoto at the end of the movie Tora Tora Tora

All of this is interesting and amusing but nobody seems to have the answer to the obvious question:

Who were the people shopping this story?

We need to know their names because if the DEI state falls ironically we will have them to thank for it

Thanksgiving Thoughts Under the Fedora: Still no Apology, NFL Trumps the College Games, Their Call not Mine, Jokes not Told and the Week that Will Speak Volumes

Posted: November 23, 2023 by datechguy in economy, Israel, Israel vs Hamas, local issues, nfl, Sports, under the fedora
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It’s Thanksgiving day and because the Turkey is cooking and my wife is on full blast I did a quick Dunkin & McDonalds run so as not to dirty stuff for DaWife’s coffee or my breakfast.

I passed by St. Bernard’s football field and remembered the phony hate crime hoax from years ago that got national attention of the FBI & the Obama admin and caused the Lunenburg St. Bernard’s game to be cancelled that year. I covered the story here:

As I recall the town never got an apology from all those who called them a bunch of racists nor did the players who missed their Turkey game that year.

They never do.

Thanksgiving is a traditional day for football (as mentioned above). When I was young the TV would be filled with college games. Now the NFL has gone in a big way, not only just the Cowboys and the Lions who both host home games on Thanksgiving (and will therefore never face the other on Thanksgiving day) but a late game that is an A list matchup between the 49ers and the Seahawks. They have even added a black Friday game Dolphins at the Jets.

I guess they’re all in on Thanksgiving weekend and taking the business from the colleges and I guess it’s the right move. Make the money while you can now because nothing lasts forever.

As for me, well I guess it a good way to pass the time waiting for spring training

In a recent speech Tucker Carlson talked about trusting your gut. My gut says that the deal with Hamas that Israel has made for hostages is a bad idea.

But since it’s the Jews of Israel who are doing the fighting and dying and it’s the Jews of Israel whose woman and children are hostages and I’m just sitting at a keyboard in safety I think I’ll defer to the judgement of their leadership vs my own.

I’m old enough to remember when I could make a joke in public or online without worry that it wouldn’t give supporters of terror groups that want to kill jews idea.

Alas those days are gone so my excellent joke shall have to remain in house.

Finally today is going to be my last day off before Black Friday. During the Trump years this was flat out time for me. We ended up working 14 days in a row after Thanksgiving and six days a week all though Christmas and carried a ton of temps all thought that time.

Last year we had one busy week and it was so quiet that the Friday after black Friday was optional and all the extra temps were laid off within two weeks.

We had a busy week this week as one of our retailers had a pre-black friday sale but this week will say more about the truth of Biden economy than any talking head can.

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