Some of these 2007 Patriots Story's in this new Book....

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Book excerpt: The passion, pressure, profanity and near-perfection of the 2007 Patriots

This dude definitely got crazy amounts of stories Ive never heard from that team....

Bill Belly refused to laugh. Or let up. The more the Patriots won, the harder he coached. The winless Miami Dolphins were next after the Cowboys, and on the Friday before the game, in the middle of a sloppy practice, one of the worst of the season, Belichick got fed up.

"I'm sick of this s---. I'm sick of looking at this s---."

He turned to Brady and safety Rodney Harrison. "Brady, Rodney, this is your team. I'm not looking at this s--- anymore. I'm going in." Coaches handed practice scripts to Harrison and Brady, then went inside.

He surpassed himself in coming up with motivational techniques. After the offensive linemen lobbied Belichick to go for it more often on fourth down, he showed the entire team a clip of them unable to move the pile on fourth and short, rewinding it again and again like "the Zapruder film," Stallworth later said.

"We can't get two inches," Belichick said. "Fourth and inches. Fourth and inches. Fourth and two -- not even two inches, fourth and the size of my d---, and we can't get the first down."

Nobody knew whether or not to laugh.

Whenever a player hinted at his or the Patriots' confidence to the media, Belichick would humiliate him before the team. "We don't need any more State of the Unions. Shut the f--- up. How about that? Just shut the f--- up." On some days, he left players more confused than angry. The offense kept fumbling in practice, so Belichick ordered all of the footballs soaked in water. "Wet that s--- up," Belichick said.

The day the story ran, Belichick arrived at the team meeting holding it. He was in a foul mood. "What was one of the first things I told you f---ing a--holes at the first meeting? Speak for yourself. There's one group that doesn't understand what the f--- that means -- the receivers."

There was nowhere for the wideouts to hide. What had been said couldn't be unsaid. They had no choice but to take what was coming. Belichick proceeded to rip each receiver who was quoted in the story by name, as if checking a list. Welker. Stallworth. Jabar Gaffney. When Belichick reached Chad Jackson, a disappointing second-round draft pick from 2006, he said, "Chad Jackson, you haven't done s--- all year. You're not talking to the media the rest of the year." After a few minutes, Belichick added, "I told you ass----- to speak for yourself."

They came on Friday afternoons, when the Patriots would practice the two-minute drill, one of the rare times when the first-team offense and first-team defense faced off. It was so fierce, almost sociopathic, with trash-talking reaching destructive levels. Mike Vrabel, Rodney Harrison, Asante Samuel, and Ellis Hobbs would taunt Brady mercilessly. Vrabel would sometimes line up at safety to get extra conditioning work in. "He always knew what plays were coming," fullback Heath Evans later said. "Brady couldn't stand it."

One Friday, Colvin sacked Brady, but because hitting quarterbacks was off-limits, Colvin yanked
Brady's shorts as Brady threw, trying to de-pants him in front of the team. Even Belichick would join in, calling bogus penalties on the offense to make Brady's life tougher, just as Phil Jackson used to do with Michael Jordan, testing the boundaries of an intense competitor's patience and composure.Brady's face would turn red, his voice screechy. Never a gifted s----talker, Brady would just scream, "F--- you!" and stalk off the field.

Samuel was locked on Moss man to man. Moss ran a slant and go, hoping to end practice with a deep touchdown. Brady threw it, but Samuel outleaped Moss -- nobody outleaped Moss -- and came down with the interception. He spiked it in Moss 's face. Brady threw his helmet. After practice,Samuel removed the nameplate on Brady's locker and replaced it with his own.

On another Friday, after the defense had won again, Belichick benched the first-team offense.
Brady begged for another chance. Belichick relented, and Brady told his receivers, "Hey, we're going back out, so make sure you're ready!" The defenders thought it was absurd to give the offense a second try after the defense had already won. In the huddle,Brady looked at Moss and said, "I'm going to the end zone. Let's end this s---." This time,Moss caught it for a touchdown, and Brady ran down the field, hollering at the defensive backs. The Patriots had an inside joke about celebrating touchdowns in practice in a way that would draw fines during games.

Brady raised his arms and pretended to fire bullets, mimicking the cannon fired at Gillette Stadium after a touchdown. Then he mock-slashed his neck and dropped to his knees, lobbing fake grenades. A few members of the defense came after him, ready to throw down. "We felt they were cocky b*stards," Harrison later said. Harrison confronted Brady and told him to cut it out before things got ugly.

With the Ravens leading, 24-20, and 1:48 left, the Patriots faced a fourth and one at the Baltimore 30-yard line, the game and the undefeated season at stake. New England called a quarterback sneak to the left side, but Lewis single-handedly destroyed it, colliding so hard with the scrum that he knocked two Patriots, including Brady, back three yards. It should have ended the undefeated season. But, before the snap, Ravens defensive coordinator Rex Ryan had called time-out, negating the play.

Ryan was one of football's smartest and brashest coaches, and he loved to take aim at Belichick. Like many in the profession,Ryan felt Belichick was a good coach who had became known as a great one because he got lucky at quarterback. But one thing Belichick never did was crack under pressure -- he was a master of letting situations play out -- and Ryan had just panicked, costing his team a victory over the best team in the league. The Ravens' defensive players yelled at him from the field.

"We called that Rex's 'wanna get away?' moment," special team coach Brad Seely later said.

One morning before the Dolphins game, Welker and Larry Izzo carpooled to work. Izzo did a radio interview during the ride, during which he was constantly asked about the 1972 Dolphins. Izzo did his best to dodge the questions, but the issue was unavoidable. He had to engage. After the call ended,Izzo was nervous.

"Dude, should I have said that?" he said. "No big deal," Welker replied. Welker had an opening.

Izzo was an easy target, a perfect combination of high-strung and gullible. At the stadium, Welker told
Brady what had happened and asked him to bring Belichick in on a prank. Brady was in. So was Belichick.

After practice, Belichick addressed the team as usual, the players encircling him, and was demonstrably angry, even by his own standards. He spoke to the team, but stared at Izzo with "cold eyes," Izzo later said. "I told you earlier I didn't want to hear anything about this," Belichick said. "I don't want to hear about the Dolphins!"

Brady and Welker were trying not to laugh. Izzo was terrified to the bone. "Freaking out," he recalled. "I was so mentally f---ed up. You don't want to be the guy who brought something up and that's the reason you lose."

I ain't even read half the story yet lmao.

It was a cold ass world in Foxboro in 2007.

 

[DrexlersFade]

Belichick is a fukking legend for this the GOATS are always a$$holes


@BucciMane

 

[Apprentice]

Lmaooooo dawg these stories are golden

“ Belichick would humiliate him before the team. "We don't need any more State of the Unions. Shut the f--- up. How about that? Just shut the f--- up." ”



how about that?

 

[staticshock]

I gotta buy it when it comes out. These behind the scenes sports books are amazing

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

Wasn't there a thread on SOHH about Mercury Morris dropping verses every week on ESPN during that season

 

[Joe Sixpack]

4th and the size of my dikk

God if I heard him say that

 

[NoHalfWay]

Woulda been the most lit team ever if they had finished the job against the Giants

 

[BucciMane]

There was nowhere for the wideouts to hide. What had been said couldn't be unsaid. They had no choice but to take what was coming. Belichick proceeded to rip each receiver who was quoted in the story by name, as if checking a list. Welker. Stallworth. Jabar Gaffney. When Belichick reached Chad Jackson, a disappointing second-round draft pick from 2006, he said, "Chad Jackson, you haven't done s--- all year. You're not talking to the media the rest of the year." After a few minutes, Belichick added, "I told you ass----- to speak for yourself."

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[mozichrome]

Never a gifted s----talker, Brady would just scream, "F--- you!" and stalk off the field.

Brady getting his cartman on

 

[Juven]

Thought he said that to Chad Johnson

I was like, damn beli is cold

 

[Sauce Dab]

Belichick called out every receiver but Moss. That’s how you know Moss was a different breed

 

[BucciMane]

That's my GOAT coach..

 

[Easy-E]

 

[Listen]

Belichick called out every receiver but Moss. That’s how you Moss was a different breed

To be clear, it was an article about Moss that they all got quoted in, hence why he didn’t rip Moss in that convo lol.

 

[Womb Raider]

all that shyt talking and humiliation but still lost to the damn Giants. I wonder what BB said after that shyt