How many coaches make that call??

[JTech194]

I'm not sure if Philbin is the right coach or not. But what I DO know is that right now.... he's not on Bilichek's level. Going into overtime last night, at the surprise of even his team captains.... he decides to kick the ball to P. Manning in overtime and give Denver the ball first, knowing that a TD ends the game. It was funny watching because when the NE player said "we want to kick", the other players looked at him like "DUDE... WTF??" and the player motioned to the sidelines as if to say IDK MAN.... thats what coach told me to do... Not many coaches would give the ball to Manning in that spot and risk losing the game. But BB being the cerebral coach that he is.. analyzed the situation and knew that Manning was having trouble throwing against the wind, and that they had made adjustments to pretty much shut him down in the second half, so he chose to take the wind and dare manning to drive 80 yards for a TD. How did it play out?? Manning couldn't do it. NE couldn't move the ball into scoring range either HOWEVER punting with the wind caused the ball to hang and affected how Wes Welker played it, causing him to make the poison call late and the ball hit the defender and NE recovered. Not often you see a coaching call directly affect the outcome of a game but that was one instance where coaching WON the game. What calls have Philbin made that actually won a game for us?

 

[psfign]

14

 

[Daytona Fin]

The call to punt instead of a FG in overtime vs the bengals, worked out good. Wish he would have done the same thing in the 4th quarter on that sturgis miss yesterday.

 

[PhinMagic]

Who cares. **** that scumbag and **** the pats. How about wee in a game where we dominate in the first half instead of curling up in the fetal position as always.

 

[PCmor]

What I know about Belichick that I really admire is that he's not a coach that rests on convention. He actually operates on pretty simple principles in a lot of ways. Like double-teaming Tony Gonzalez at the line of scrimmage near the goal-line earlier this season and defying the Falcons to throw to anyone else, or relying on guys like Woodhead and Welker despite their measurables because they made plays. He could see the wind was the winner in this game and made the right call. He goes against the grain, but it's so often in a very common-sense way.

I think he realized that a lot of guys try to make this game harder than it is. We sometimes forget what works because someone comes along with something new.

 

[nyjunc]

What I know about Belichick that I really admire is that he's not a coach that rests on convention. He actually operates on pretty simple principles in a lot of ways. Like double-teaming Tony Gonzalez at the line of scrimmage near the goal-line earlier this season and defying the Falcons to throw to anyone else, or relying on guys like Woodhead and Welker despite their measurables because they made plays. He could see the wind was the winner in this game and made the right call. He goes against the grain, but it's so often in a very common-sense way.

I think he realized that a lot of guys try to make this game harder than it is. We sometimes forget what works because someone comes along with something new.

when you have Brady and thus job security it makes it easier to make decisions like that.

 

[JTech194]

when you have Brady and thus job security it makes it easier to make decisions like that.

But in that OT, brady didn't do anything. It was the defense and special teams. Brady helps, but he's not the be all end all. Football is the ultimate team sport.

 

[nyjunc]

But in that OT, brady didn't do anything. It was the defense and special teams. Brady helps, but he's not the be all end all. Football is the ultimate team sport.

It is the ultimate team game but teams win w/ great individual players. If NE doesn't have Brady they don't have any SBs and don't become a dynasty while BB is someone's DC right now.

 

[matt11390]

Combination of success from good coaching and great QB play equals confidence

 

[DuderinoN703]

I'm not sure if Philbin is the right coach or not. But what I DO know is that right now.... he's not on Bilichek's level. Going into overtime last night, at the surprise of even his team captains.... he decides to kick the ball to P. Manning in overtime and give Denver the ball first, knowing that a TD ends the game. It was funny watching because when the NE player said "we want to kick", the other players looked at him like "DUDE... WTF??" and the player motioned to the sidelines as if to say IDK MAN.... thats what coach told me to do... Not many coaches would give the ball to Manning in that spot and risk losing the game. But BB being the cerebral coach that he is.. analyzed the situation and knew that Manning was having trouble throwing against the wind, and that they had made adjustments to pretty much shut him down in the second half, so he chose to take the wind and dare manning to drive 80 yards for a TD. How did it play out?? Manning couldn't do it. NE couldn't move the ball into scoring range either HOWEVER punting with the wind caused the ball to hang and affected how Wes Welker played it, causing him to make the poison call late and the ball hit the defender and NE recovered. Not often you see a coaching call directly affect the outcome of a game but that was one instance where coaching WON the game. What calls have Philbin made that actually won a game for us?

New England was close to not winning that game so I wouldn't give Belichick much credit. He's made decisions in the past that were head scratchers and got burned for it.