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 Bill was too old, Bill was out of touch, Bill’s methods were out of date, Bill Drafted poorly, Bill didn’t spend wisely, he picked the wrong coaches, etc etc etc.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 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?
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.
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.
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
I’m old enough to remember when, just a few years ago, our friends in the left absolutely and positively insisted that anyone like me who claims the last election was stolen was some kind of conspiracy theorist? And yet now we have not only the story of Colorado by legal decision and Maine by practically a Royal Fiat banning Trump from the ballot.
If things are clean wouldn’t you want to make it a point to note under oath just how clean they are?
I still can’t get over the idea of how much would have been different if the left/democrats simply treated Donald Trump as a normal Presidential candidate and as a normal president and had not bothered all that was done in 2020.
He would be in the final year of his second term and riding off into the sunset. Russia would not be in Ukraine, Hamas would have been kept in check, the US economy would have been booming, the border secure and our strategic petroleum reserve still full
I strongly suspect those who did all they could to steal the last election consider those things as bugs rather than features, less opportunity for graft you see.
Older and wiser heads alas didn’t prevail
Speaking of being old enough to remember I was going through an old backup hard drive I found which had all sorts of goodies from 2015 from me guest hosing Conservatively speaking on WCRN to old podcasts and coverage of all kinds of stuff from all over the country.
One thing I noticed was from a GOP event in NH that included Donald Trump before he had announced. He was leaving the hotel where the potential candidates were and I filmed his departure in passing thinking nothing of it.
Not a single person had a clue what was coming at the time.
I’m also old enough to remember when Swatting was confined to folks like Stacy McCain and the like.
You might forget that during the Kimberlin years Stacy and others involved in exposing that crowd were swatted. At the time I even went to my local police to warn them of that tactic since I was writing on the subject at the time. People didn’t seem to take it all that seriously.
But now we have members of congress and prominent folks like Johnathan Turley now targets
This is BLATANT political intimidation and harassment
Earlier today, @JonathanTurley spoke out bc 3 GOP lawmakers were victims of “swatting” incidents this week
It would have been nice if this stuff was nipped in the bud early but like the banning of conservatives on twitter and youtube it wasn’t considered important enough to tackle so thus you get more of it
Finally yesterday my wife was working and my sons were engaged elsewhere so I went to my local Longhorn restaurant, sat at the bar, order the Spicy Bites (the single best appetizer value/taste combo that exists at any national chain) opened up Volume 3 of Shelby Foote’s epic Civil War trilogy to Hood defeat at Nashville by Thomas and watched the Boston Celtics play the Toronto Raptors at home.
It was the 2nd day of a back to back and stars Jason Tatum and Kristas Porzingis were not dressed and vet Al Horford were all unavailable so we saw a lot of reserves getting serious playing time. It was an exciting game with an odd finish where the Celtics blew a 20 point lead and had to eek out a win that wasn’t decided till the final second of the game, but two things jumped out at me that I hadn’t seen much of if at all in years
At one point in the 2nd quarter when the Celtics lead was seemingly comfortable I looked up at the screen and was shocked to see an NBA team with practically an all white team on the floor, technically you could call it an all “white” five because the only player of color on the floor was ironically Derrick White (who has really come into his own this season) who frankly is light enough to as they used to say in the old days “pass”.
I suspect it’s been more than half a century since that has been the case but there was something that was even more shocking to me that NBA fans haven’t seen much of these days and that was the play of Center Luke Kornet who instead of launching 3 point shots from the outside was actually hustling to be under the basket to retrieve rebounds and be in a position to be fed for easy layups by a charging White or Brown.
Just a decade or two ago a center playing, well like a Center would not be much of a story but in today’s game it’s practically headline news. I’d like to see more of it because in the end, that tends to pay off.
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