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a dubious quotation from Bellichick about Wade running the same D for 30 years.
“We run obviously the 3-4 defense,” Phillips said before the Super Bowl last year. “We were the first team with the Oilers to run a full time 3-4. We’re still running a 3-4 defense. There’s little nuances and things we’ve changed. But the big thing about his defense and our defense all along was try to use the personnel you have to do what they do well.”
“(Phillips has) been successful everywhere he’s been,” Belichick said, via MassLive. “He’s been doing it for 30 years in multiple organizations with multiple groups of players against every kind of offense he could see. . . . And to his credit, there’s not many of us that have a system that can last that long.
“I’ve certainly changed a lot in the last 30 years schematically. Wade really hasn’t. He really hasn’t.”
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Seems Wade and Bill B say very similar things. You may diagree, but the quote is not dubious. I think people thought he was a one-trick pony when he was hired, it's just that it was a good pony...no one thought he was a Gregg Willimans and his famous 40-somthing "packages" or whatever he said he had.
Nothing's dubious about the quote, meaning yeah BB did say that (except that Wade's defense beat the Patz in the playoffs in 2015 and held them to 13 in the superbowl 2018).
What's dubious is how the writer uses it.
The things he tries to link up together are not the same things. Yeah WP has run a 1-gap 3/4 for 30 years. That doesn;t mean he doesn't gameplan or scheme. Yet the writer acts like those 2 ideas link up when they don't.
The writer strings together several unrelated things and acts like they're related.
And btw in case you're wondering my issue here is just bad writing.
I can see why McV fired WP and if McV hires a good replacement I won';t have an issue with it.
But bad writing is bad writing. Whether you agree with its point of view or not.
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/07/2020 06:30PM by zn.