Bill Belichick On Greg Schiano
August 22nd, 2012
The Bucs and Patriots are in the middle of banging heads in a two-day joint scrimmage/practice session between the two clubs at One Buc Palace.
To start the festivities, Patriots coach Bill Belichick spoke to the two team’s combined pen and mic clubs first thing this morning.
Many of the questions dealt with Belichick’s relationship with new Bucs coach Greg Schiano. In fact, it was Belichick’s personal recommendation to Team Glazer that helped seal the deal for Schiano.
“It’s great to be here in Tampa with Coach Schiano and the Bucs. We’re here a couple of days to improve our football team. Our guys are glad to be down here and I think we will get a lot out of it.
“I have known Coach Schiano for a long time. I got to know him better since he was at Rutgers. We’d go down and scout his players and work them out. He has a good defensive background so we have a lot in common there. He has coached some of our players going back to his days at Miami. My son played for him at Rutgers and I spent more time there and being round coach. He has been to our practices and spoke to our team. We have had a good relationship and I have a lot of respect for him.
“I think this is a great opportunity for him.”
What is most important for Greg Schiano to change things around?
“It’s a big process. there isn’t one thing. there’s no magic wand. It’s pretty much everything. When I came to New England, or Cleveland for that matter, it’s the scouting department, the players, the personnel, the coaching staff, the support staff, the video, the trainers, the medical people, the equipment men, the operations, the travel department, it’s all interconnected.
“There is a program the way you want to do things. You have to do it for your own style and personnel preferences are all interconnected. It definitely takes a while to change that. It’s easier to keep it the way it was. There is a lot of work. Certainly along the way, I have made my share of mistakes and I tried to learn from them and not to repeat those. That is part of the process. When you bring in a lot of new people, some people you bring in are not going to work out; some you bring in are going to work out. Some are going to be better that you have but not ultimately where you want to be. Personnel wise, you upgrade where you can.”
Talk about recommending Schiano to the Bucs.
“All I can do is be honest. What someone else is looking for, it is what is right for them. I think the world of Greg. I think he is a good coach. He has a good personality. He treats his players well. He is smart. He’s tough. He did a great job at the Rutgers program which didn’t have some of the same opportunities as others he was going against. Yet he competes very well in that conference. I have always been impressed with the way his teams have played and competed.”
What are some of Schiano’s challenges?
“I think he is an experienced coach. He has coached a lot of players and coached a lot of games. He has coached NFL players; they were just in college, that is all. And he has coached in the NFL. He knows what he is doing.”
Is this your first visit to One Buc Place?
“I was at the old facility many times, this place looks great. Good operation, good facility. We are excited to be here. Great opportunity for our team.”
August 22nd, 2012 at 11:00 am
Interesting to contrast the two coaches and the two teams. Looking forward to Friday’s preseason game. Thanks for the report, JBF.
August 22nd, 2012 at 11:00 am
Mr. Personality
August 22nd, 2012 at 11:03 am
Schiano is excellent. It will take time to weed out the horrible ingrained habits of the RahDom era.
Bellichick speaks of the inter-connectdness (if that is a word) of the team and administration, that speaks volumes about how broad the responsibility for horrible football during RahDom extends.
DomDom and co. provided below average and undisciplined players to a completely incompetent coach and joke of a staff.
I also believe that Hickey and DomDom need to be seperated. I don’t know how frequently NFL teams hire 2 high school buddies and put them in the GM and College and then Pro Personnel Director positions.
At least Hickey played the game, Dom was a swimmer because he was afraid of getting hurt (per his mommy). I have heard mixed reviews on Hickey, initially I believed him to be much more respected than his high school buddy DomDom but apparently that relationship is too incestuous – no checks and balances.
We need to split them up.
August 22nd, 2012 at 11:09 am
I hope our team can learn something.
Schiano should be learning from Bill, and all the way down:
Freeman learning from Brady,
Our TE’s from Gronk/Hernandez,
GMC from Wilfork (he is the most athletic 350 pounder in the NFL)
August 22nd, 2012 at 11:25 am
Who is the blonde?
August 22nd, 2012 at 11:28 am
thomas,
i’m sure dominick and hickey “love it that you follow them so closely. flattering.”
you need a life.
August 22nd, 2012 at 11:43 am
Personality doesn’t win ballgames. Ask Raheem about that.
August 22nd, 2012 at 11:58 am
Don’t you love it that Schiano hasn’t coached a regular season game yet but Thomas says he is ‘excellent’. I believe he’ll be a great coach but it just makes me laugh how stupid Thomas can be with his comments. Stuff like “This was Schiano’s draft.” By the way Thomas….swimmer or not..I have all the confidence in the world that Dom could kick your skinny, legal secretary a@#. Lol!
August 22nd, 2012 at 11:59 am
dew
“Who is the blonde?”
It’s Bilicheck’s “morning cup of Joe”! Seriously, I think it’s his wife?
August 22nd, 2012 at 12:07 pm
Belichick said the same things about Josh McDaniels and Eric Mangini.
August 22nd, 2012 at 12:09 pm
If joe did an tweet on how the buc’s are trying out new chalk for the lines.Thomas would add how bad drafting lead to the change of chalk
August 22nd, 2012 at 12:13 pm
Maybe Thomas needs to be separated from his blanky after 40 years and his parents’ couch. Clueless is a word I would use to describe him but Jerkoff probably fits him better. He likely spends hours upon hours, each day between his Xbox controller, shakeweight, and Ipad, only taking breaks for food and craps. I doubt he bathes often, if at all.
August 22nd, 2012 at 12:20 pm
OAR:
Girlfriend. She’s here today as well.
August 22nd, 2012 at 12:37 pm
Joe
Cool! She’s a looker!
August 22nd, 2012 at 12:38 pm
But I will admit I have the same hate-on for the GM of my hockey team.Everybody loves the guy around here but his record is brutal.It’s a tough situation people don’t care about your views because they know you have a hardcore bias.I just stop talking about him because the kool-aid drinker’s are uncrackable.This guy needz to run for major before everybody wakes up and realises he’s one of the worst personel guy’s the hockey world has ever seen.sound familiar lol
August 22nd, 2012 at 12:51 pm
Ya she’s hot except for that fake Mike Jackson nose.When will people realize that these noses looks like a bird’s beak.
August 22nd, 2012 at 1:54 pm
Uhh…yeah…first thing I noticed was her ti-…nose too….
August 22nd, 2012 at 3:42 pm
She has a nose? I’ll have to stare at the pic longer.
August 22nd, 2012 at 8:19 pm
I still think Billchick’s Moobs are bigger.