Continuing with the discussion about Adam Vinatieri, I got an email yesterday from good friend and proud BrendoThong owner Dawn which was so brilliant that I decided to share it with you in its entirety. Also, it means that I don't have to come up with anything to write today. Take it away, Dawn:
I'm not really sure what to say about this one. I am not sure if this will help ease your fears, but I am reading a book on Belichick called "Education of a Coach" and something I read this morning helped ease mine. As for the book, it's not very good and I don't recommend it. I'll write a better one someday, so don't waste your money now. Anyway, this morning on the train it said the following which struck a chord with me in light of last night's activities:
"Instead he understood that the way to deal with the cap was to create a system and to play for the future as well as the present."
The cap is Bill's bitch, he owns it and he works it better than anyone I've ever seen. Bill and his coaches have always had an uncanny way of getting the right players (not the best players, the right players), utilizing them to maximize their potential and then getting rid of them when they no longer function in the system. He has never had anyone on the team for "too long," which is how he plays for the future as well as the present and finds success in both realms. The man consistently wins - despite turnover in key player personnel each year, which I view as a good thing. This goes back to his Cleveland days when he had an aging Kosar on his team, kept him around for too long because he was Cleveland's golden boy and then got rid of him in the wrong way and paid the price for it. Bill learned a valuable lesson from this which you can see signs of implementation of today.
To further illustrate my point, let's discuss a few names: Law, Milloy, Bledsoe, Tebucky, Andruzzi, Woody, and Patten. All of these people were on the 2001 Championship roster and none of them were on the 2005 roster. Law got so greedy he isn't even on anyone's 2006 roster. We have lost some big time key players over the last few years, but are you actually missing any of those people? I'm sure not. They were utilized to their maximum ability in New England and then cut at just the right time and have not enjoyed the same success since leaving New England. Is this just a coincidence? There are no coincidences. Adam is just another name on this list which now also includes McGinest and Givens and you know what? We'll still make the playoffs this year despite our mini-fireside sale.
Belichick has developed a system and I have more faith in him than I do in the Governor of my state, the President of my country and the God of my world. Whoever comes in to replace Adam will not be as talented, but he will be good enough and Bill will be smart enough to adapt the team around his new kicker. And sure Bill Simmons will have something to say about this (see what he said about McGinest if you haven't already:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060315), but I'm really not sweating it. There will be a lot of Adam Vinatieri shirts turned into dust rags and I'll have to come up with a new Patriot's Game Day dessert since I can't make Adam Vinatiramisu anymore, but I can handle that because I have faith in Bill and I think the team will be just fine.
Viva la Revolucion,
Dawn
* Disclaimer: If the New England Patriots play the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC Playoffs in 2007 and Adam Vinatieri kicks the game winning field goal, everything mentioned above is no longer valid and the author of this email will not be held liable in anyway.
Sorry, fellas - she's taken.
I'm not really sure what to say about this one. I am not sure if this will help ease your fears, but I am reading a book on Belichick called "Education of a Coach" and something I read this morning helped ease mine. As for the book, it's not very good and I don't recommend it. I'll write a better one someday, so don't waste your money now. Anyway, this morning on the train it said the following which struck a chord with me in light of last night's activities:
"Instead he understood that the way to deal with the cap was to create a system and to play for the future as well as the present."
The cap is Bill's bitch, he owns it and he works it better than anyone I've ever seen. Bill and his coaches have always had an uncanny way of getting the right players (not the best players, the right players), utilizing them to maximize their potential and then getting rid of them when they no longer function in the system. He has never had anyone on the team for "too long," which is how he plays for the future as well as the present and finds success in both realms. The man consistently wins - despite turnover in key player personnel each year, which I view as a good thing. This goes back to his Cleveland days when he had an aging Kosar on his team, kept him around for too long because he was Cleveland's golden boy and then got rid of him in the wrong way and paid the price for it. Bill learned a valuable lesson from this which you can see signs of implementation of today.
To further illustrate my point, let's discuss a few names: Law, Milloy, Bledsoe, Tebucky, Andruzzi, Woody, and Patten. All of these people were on the 2001 Championship roster and none of them were on the 2005 roster. Law got so greedy he isn't even on anyone's 2006 roster. We have lost some big time key players over the last few years, but are you actually missing any of those people? I'm sure not. They were utilized to their maximum ability in New England and then cut at just the right time and have not enjoyed the same success since leaving New England. Is this just a coincidence? There are no coincidences. Adam is just another name on this list which now also includes McGinest and Givens and you know what? We'll still make the playoffs this year despite our mini-fireside sale.
Belichick has developed a system and I have more faith in him than I do in the Governor of my state, the President of my country and the God of my world. Whoever comes in to replace Adam will not be as talented, but he will be good enough and Bill will be smart enough to adapt the team around his new kicker. And sure Bill Simmons will have something to say about this (see what he said about McGinest if you haven't already:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/060315), but I'm really not sweating it. There will be a lot of Adam Vinatieri shirts turned into dust rags and I'll have to come up with a new Patriot's Game Day dessert since I can't make Adam Vinatiramisu anymore, but I can handle that because I have faith in Bill and I think the team will be just fine.
Viva la Revolucion,
Dawn
* Disclaimer: If the New England Patriots play the Indianapolis Colts in the AFC Playoffs in 2007 and Adam Vinatieri kicks the game winning field goal, everything mentioned above is no longer valid and the author of this email will not be held liable in anyway.
Sorry, fellas - she's taken.
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Sorry, fellas - she's taken.
-Dammit.
Sorry, Big Cat. She's wicked hotttt, too.
There's nary a thing I can think of that I know to that level. Nothing.
Funny stuff: http://www.thebrushback.com/soxbelichick_full.htm
How come you never post my emails to you in their entirety?
Oh wait, never mind. Don't answer that.
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