Bill Belichick (Coach) Wiki, Bio, Age, Height, Weight, Wife, Children, Net Worth, Facts

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• Bill Belichick was head coach of the Cleveland Browns from 1991-1995 but his tenure was not a successful one.
• Belichick’s many quirks from being very secretive about players and player injuries to his being so reticent and boring with the press that it almost appears pathological were intensified by the bad teams and bad decisions he made while at Cleveland.
• Without going into the nitty-gritty details, Belichick handled situations poorly, especially with the press and those higher up in the organization.
• The worst was the beating he took for demoting QB Bernie Kosar, a local hero, out of the starter’s role.
• After a losing lame duck season when Cleveland was moving to Baltimore, Belichick was fired.
• His tenure at Cleveland was so bad that there was a possibility of never getting another chance at a head coaching job.
• After spending time as defensive coordinator with the New England Patriots and the New York Jets, the opportunity finally did arise.
• Bill Belichick wanted to be his own man and knew that Parcells, as a Jets team executive, would really be calling the shots.
• And thus Bill Belichick, having impressed Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, with his stint as defensive coordinator, hired Bill Belichick as the head coach. And the rest is history.
• Having won three championships in four years in an era of free agency and massive player movement, many of Belichick’s quirks and oddities, which were seen as signs of weakness and lack of leadership in Cleveland, became the eccentricities that went into being a successful head coach in today’s NFL.
• But Bill Belichick is not the same man he was in Cleveland.
• He’s a smart guy, and like most smart guys, he learned from his mistakes in Cleveland and vowed not to repeat them.
• Despite drawbacks in the writing mentioned above, this biography is full of themes and anecdotes.
• It covers, in detail, Belichick’s relationship with his father and growing up around the Navy football team.
• The book also goes into detail about his strange relationship with Bill Parcells, the failures he endured as head coach in Cleveland, and the reasons for his resurrection with the New England Patriots.
• It was in New England where mostly diligent work, careful player selection, and surrounding himself with the right staff who knew how to deliver the results he wanted, led to his ultimate success.
• Additionally, there are some great anecdotes about such offbeat characters as Lawrence Taylor, who is arguably the greatest outside linebacker in the modern era of football.