Thursday, September 13, 2007

Were Rams Cheated Out of Super Bowl Win?

I'm not quite this alarmist, but...

He does bring up some good points. The Patriots always seemed far better prepared than the teams they beat. And Talent wise, with the exception of Tom Brady and a few defensive players they have never had an overwhelming talent advantage like the 90's Cowboys (the best team money could buy) or othe 'dynasties'. Having read Halbertam's book about Belichik, I get the idea that Belichik is a great coach. And he certainly has a good system. But you wonder if his 'scouting' expertise over the years was simply spying, and getting away with it. And Belichik has admitted that they did it in this most recent case. So it does make you wonder.

That being said, I still blame Mike Martz for that Super Bowl loss, he screwed up that game with his refusal to make adjustments to how the Patriots were playing. I've always thought the mark of the great coaches was in game adjustments, if what you were planning to do isn't working, change it up. And Martz never did that in the Super Bowl, in fact in the same book some Rams players stated that they begged Martz to change the strategy and he refused.

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