Discipline And Intelligence A Staple Under Belichick

Brian Hoyer spoke to Phil Perry and Tom Curran about the playing football around the NFL and with the Patriots. His comments got me thinking about what Chad O'Shae was criticized for in Miami. And it got me thinking.

When Hoyer was talking, he said basically that every practice was important in New England and players were criticized anytime they had a bad day or made a mistake.. That with the Raiders under McDaniels, Josh tried that but some of Hoyer's teammates couldn't handle it.

Basically Hoyer was saying his teammates with the Raiders couldn't handle criticism. Which was a problem Matt Patricia had in Detroit and I believe both Joe Judge and Brian Florez were also accused of, being too hard on the players.

Hoyer was then asked about the difference between the difference between AVP's offense and the McDaniels-O'Brien Offense. Hoyer was like in the new Offense you don't have to think, it's dumbed down, taking pressure off of the players on comparison to the Brady Offense.

O'Shea was fired from Miami because the Offense was to complicated, to intelligent for the Dolphins to memorize and learn. When thinking about how Hoyer compared the new Patriots Offense to the old, one must think the same was true in Miami and that that's why O'Shea was gone. Not because he was a bad OC but because his players needed a Dumbed down Offense that didn't require thinking on the part of the players. 

The reason why coaches have failed once they leave New England is not because they're bad coaches. It's because they're intelligent, disciplined coaches and don't know how to coaches coach an unintelligent and undisciplined roster. And because they couldn't just cut the entire roster, they had no choice to deal with them. This now makes sense to why Belichick relied on interviews so much. The Patriots were just built different.