Report: Bill Belichick will call the Patriots' defense in 2019

It's time to move on to a fun game titled "Who Said That: Yogi Berra or Bill Belichick?"

Here is your quote, you decide:

"I felt we had control of the game, I did not feel like we had control of the score."

Okay, okay, it does not really have the same ring as "Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical", but you have to give Bill some extra style points to indicate factually that 28-3 in a 60-minute World Championship was simply "not having control of the score". It's a way of saying it, I suppose.

As the Patriots move on to their third defensive coordinator in 3 seasons, after the defense has lost some of the league's most powerful offenses in 2018 …

…. while, at other times, they were not doing their exact job against some really elite competitors in 2018 …

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…. while making extremely cold and nightmarish fuel formations to confuse their enemies ….

… aside from keeping their points on a respectable level (7th in the NFL in 2018, 5th in 2017), consistency is not exactly their business card for two seasons.

So, when your future Defensive Coordinator will disappear after ever being officially introduced as DC when it's almost April, and that Brian Flores wins one of the fastest successes in his recent memory, what is & # 39; 39, a Super Bowl champion coach to do eight times?

The same thing that the rest of us, the average Joes, do when you want us to do well: do it yourself.

In any case, it's Ben Volin's report to the Boston Globe via ProFootballTalk:

(Oddly, I can not find it anywhere on the Globe website, but if PFT and NFL Network report it, hey, that's enough for us.)

"The Patriots do not have a defensive coordinator since Greg Schiano left abruptly in March after just a month of work.

The coach of the defensive lines, Bret Bielema, the former head coach of Wisconsin and Arkansas, is the most qualified defensive assistant to assume these duties. But it seems that Bill Belichick will manipulate them himself, Ben Volin of Boston Globe reports.

Belichick called for the last time defensive games in 2010, but he remained involved in the defense even as Matt Patricia then Brian Flores called games.

Belichick works with the defensive linemen during the match and said "often" to Patricia and Flores when to call blitz, according to Volin.

It may be just a season off-season, but these reports do not seem to align exactly; To say that Bill will perform the duties of the CD and that he will be the "de facto defense coordinator" certainly leaves a lot of leeway for what he will actually do in relation to what he will delegate.

And on a less serious note, I must admit that it's also quite funny because all those who played the game of "Brady only because Bill and Bill is awesome only for DEFENSE" with another public, and this crowd almost always has some riff on "well, Bill is BASICALLY the defensive coordinator anyway", no matter who wears the headset.

Whatever the case may be, with the Patriots bringing Boom Legion-type pieces to add to a defense that has just screwed up one of the "best NFL offenses of the season" that we were all talking about to. the hour in the Super Bowl and held them firmly away from Colin Cowherd might have been right to say that if you did not stop Bill in 2018, 2019 would probably not be your year and that, uh, 2020 does not advertise well either.