Tom Coughlin got fired twice, is he terrible? Bill Belichick was fired once, is he terrible? successful people can get fired.
I ask again though, how were we so successful w/ those guys(even add in the OC who every Jet fan bashed)?
bill was not successful when he got fired.
so no one that has ever had success has ever been fired?
oh it was the elite defense, who traded up to draft our best player? I will give Rex credit for Leonhard and Scott but who brought in the rest of the guys?
I don't worry about what others think, the "experts" and fans have a mob mentality, they sway in the wind. if Miami has success this year everyone will change their tune. it's how the media and fans work. it's not how I work, I don't forget those that helped my team. you think Tom Coughlin sucks b/c he missed 6 of 7 postseasons and was just fired? go check the reputation of Bill Belichick as a HC before Brady stepped on the field.
I don't think anybody's going to change there opinion of him.
Bill- Cleveland he compiled a 36–44 record and In Belichick's last season in Cleveland the Browns finished 5–11
Bill's success comes on the heels of brady, not the other way around.
New York Giants (1979–1990)[edit]
In 1979, Belichick began a 12-year stint with the New York Giants alongside head coach Ray Perkins as a defensive assistant and special teams coach. He added linebackers coaching to his duties in 1980 and was named defensive coordinator in 1985 under head coach Bill Parcells, who had replaced Perkins in 1983. The Giants won Super Bowls following the 1986 and 1990 seasons. His defensive game plan from the New York Giants' 20–19 upset of the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXV is now in the Pro Football Hall of Fame.[12]
Cleveland Browns (1991–1995)[edit]
From 1991 until 1995, Belichick was the head coach of the Cleveland Browns. During his tenure in Cleveland he compiled a 36–44 record, leading the team to the playoffs in 1994, his only winning year with the team. Coincidentally, his one playoff victory during his Browns tenure was achieved against the Patriots in the wild card round during this postseason. In Belichick's last season in Cleveland the Browns finished 5–11, despite starting 3-1. In November of that year in the middle of the ongoing football season, Browns owner Art Modell had announced he would move his franchise to Baltimore after the season. After first being given assurances that he would coach the transplanted Baltimore Ravens, Belichick was instead fired on February 14, 1996, one week after the shift was officially announced.[13]
New England Patriots (1996)[edit]
After his dismissal by the new Baltimore Ravens, Belichick served under Parcells again as assistant head coach and defensive backs coach with the Patriots for the 1996 season. The Patriots finished with an 11–5 record and won the AFC championship, but they lost to the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl XXXI amid rumors of Parcells' impending defection.
New York Jets (1997–1999)[edit]
Belichick had two different stints as the head coach of the Jets without ever coaching a game.
In February 1997, Belichick, who had been an assistant coach under Bill Parcells with the New York Giants and New England Patriots, was named the Jets interim head coach while the Jets and Patriots continued to negotiate compensation to release Parcells from his contract with Patriots and allow Parcells to coach the Jets.[14] Six days later, the Patriots and Jets reached an agreement that allowed Parcells to coach the Jets and Belichick became the team's assistant head coach and defensive coordinator.[15] When Parcells stepped down as head coach in 1999, he had already arranged with team management to have Belichick succeed him. However, Belichick would be the New York Jets' head coach for only one day. When Belichick was introduced as head coach to the media—the day after his hiring was publicized—he turned it into a surprise-resignation announcement. Before taking the podium, he scrawled a resignation note on a sheet of loose leaf paper that read, in its entirety, "I resign as HC of the NYJ." He then delivered a half-hour speech explaining his resignation to the assembled press corps.[16]
Soon after this bizarre turn of events, he was introduced as the Patriots' 12th full-time head coach, succeeding the recently fired Pete Carroll. The Patriots had tried to hire him away from Parcells/the Jets in the past. Parcells and the Jets claimed that Belichick was still under contract to the Jets, and demanded compensation from the Patriots. NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue agreed, and the Patriots gave the Jets a first-round draft pick in 2000 in exchange for the right to hire Belichick.[17]
