Outdoing Yourself?

Don't get me wrong New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Belicheck is a great coach. Probably one of the greatest coaches in NFL history. However I always wonder everytime Belicheck takes chance on guys like newly aquired players DT Albert Haynesworth (from Redsksins) and WR Chad Ochocinco (from Bengals), is Belicheck buying into his own type that he can coach anybody and everybody?

I know for a while that the trade for Randy Moss worked out wonders for the Patriots, he helped the Pats to a 16-0 regular season record in '07 and a Super Bowl XLII apperance. However Randy Moss went back to his old ways in the begining of the 2010 season complaining for a new contract before the Pats were ready to work one out with him.

So I sit back and wonder what will happen to the troubled Albert Haynesworth will work for the Pats. They always say winning cures all, but Haynesworth didn't even give it a chance last season with the Washington Redskins. Instead he pouted because Redskins coach Mike Shannahan was to rough on him. Well Al, Belicheck isn't going to go easy on you either. He is going to want everything from you....so I hope you buy into his system otherwise the end result will just repeat itself.

Trading for WR Chad Ochocinco might not be as big of a gamble as Haynesworth, but I still think this move is going outside the Patriots box just a little too much. Ochocinco can play, and for the most part he never lays down on you. His attitude on the field, I think, will work for the Pats however his attitude off the field would consern me more if I were Belicheck. I beleive that Bill bit a little more than he can chew here, he can do all he wants to control him to get the resaults on the field, but once it comes to behind the scenes I think Ochocinco will turn the Patriots locker room into one like the Dallas Cowboys, the media will be waiting for any little thing wrong out of him.

So I think Belicheck buys into the media hype on himself just a little to much. Just like when he went for it on 4th down against the Indianapolis Colts in 2009, he is outsmarting himself. Outdoing himself.



-Goody