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By Doug Samuels. Source: Kent State is making a change at defensive coordinator Sources tell FootballScoop that Kent State is making a defensive coordinator change following their loss to Central Michigan earlier this week. Crennel earned one winning season as Browns head coach, and it turned out to be the last winning season the Browns had before Kevin Stefanski took the helm in Crennel's short stint with the Chiefs didn't prove to be much better, as KC was sputtering before it became the engine it is now.
In summation, Crennel never really rose above very good DC status, but he was also never saddled with great situations. He's now 74, so the ship to become an NFL head coach has likely sailed. Experience: Denver Broncos , Indianapolis Col Oh, oh wait. Sprinkle in a little video controversy sounds familiar, doesn't it? The Broncos would love to forget it, too, considering that he was sacked in just his second season as coach.
How he'll respond? We shall see. Even if he held the title for just over a year, he left a lot of damage for the new GM Nick Caserio and head coach David Culley to undo. O'Brien served just one year as Patriots OC, spending five years in total with the organization between and A spell in Penn State after the Joe Paterno era proved to be decent , with a record over two seasons as Nittany Lions' head coach.
Keep in mind, O'Brien was dealing with the fallout from the Penn State sexual abuse scandal, tough waters for any coach to navigate. Kevin Faulk Patriots Running Back, : "When he first got to New England, for almost three years I'd see Bill in the hallway going to breakfast at the facility. Now, I'm from Louisiana. I don't care who you are, I'm going to say 'Good morning, how you doing? How's everything today? I said good morning to him for years. Then, one day I said it and he finally looked up and said, 'Good morning, Kevin,' and so I reached out and I stopped him, and he was like, 'Whoa, whoa, Kevin, what are you doing?
What's wrong? Do you know how long I've been saying good morning to you and you haven't said a word? Rick Venturi: "He has a very dry, cynical sense of humor. A couple of times we'd hit the parking lot at the same time in the morning, and on the way into the facility he'd comment on The Howard Stern Show. He's a real closet rock 'n' roll nut. He traveled with the Rolling Stones for a few weeks through Europe one summer.
Bon Jovi used to come to Cleveland and catch passes in practice. He had a suite in Cleveland and we all went to Pink Floyd together as a group. I didn't see him with his lighter out, but it wouldn't surprise me if I did. Rosevelt Colvin: "Bill knew what was going on with everything at every moment.
Unless Bon Jovi was there. Then he couldn't care less what was going on. Phil Savage: "He really doesn't care what he looks like. The cutoff sweatshirts? The hoodies? Some of our older veteran coaches and scouts would make comments like, 'What's the deal with our head coach, the guy looks like hell? Bob Quinn: "There's not a lot of small talk with Bill. Not a lot of, 'Hey, what did you do this weekend? There's no mincing words. Aqib Talib Patriots Cornerback, : "That's how he is with everybody, no games -- OK, a few games, but he's not going to beat around the bush.
He's going to tell you if you're playing terrible, if you're playing like s, if you're playing great. He's not scared to tell you any of that. Clear-cut, direct, straightforward. Phil Savage: "He's not going to fly off the handle and yell and scream at people. That's just not his personality. Rick Venturi: "He has the most unique way of just getting under everyone's skin.
In Cleveland, we ran a cover 2 technique -- where the defensive backs had to jam and run -- that was not easy to teach, and my guys were really struggling with it. Bill just turns to me in front of everyone and says, 'This s is getting really hard to watch. And you're just going, 'Aw, goddamn it,' and your whole body is tense -- I don't know how to put it in words, but you went home and just said to yourself, 'I will never let this s happen again.
And I got back to the sidelines, and he just chewed me out. He said a bunch of expletives to me. It's ingrained in my mind. Bill doesn't mind if it's a passionate thing you do, you make a big play and get up and be excited, but there's a range where, anything after three seconds, you cut that off.
Believe me, after that one I didn't step on any other lines. Phil Savage: "He will say something to you in a sarcastic tone that, wow, is just so right to the core. It hits home twice as hard and makes you feel about an inch tall. Even for a coaching prodigy with a withering sense of humor, Belichick's ultimate success as a head coach is due, in a significant way, to an enormous stroke of luck. During the sixth round of the draft, instead of taking quarterback Tim Rattay with the th pick, the Patriots selected Michigan's Tom Brady.
Rick Venturi: " When you get a guy like Brady that late in the draft, that's just lucky. But the Patriots kept four quarterbacks in , which is pretty rare. So maybe the brilliance wasn't in drafting Brady but in Bill's recognition right away that he had something special when no one else knew it.
Adam Vinatieri Patriots kicker, : "I think the first Super Bowl season was probably the year that it really switched for Bill. The first couple of years, we were a little shaky while he was getting his personnel lined up. Bledsoe gets banged up, Brady comes in, and we start winning games. When Brady first came in, his first start, the rest of the team was like, "This is a young kid, we have to step up and help each other. He told us not to try to do too much by thinking we had to cover up for others.
We followed his lead and it worked. That's when they started drinking the Kool-Aid of believing that Bill knew what he was doing and that Bill had a vision. Thirty-some years after he aced the Lions' coaching quiz to land a job in Detroit, Belichick's own weekly player exams, meticulous game prep and increasingly relentless pursuit of every possible advantage become part of Patriots dynasty lore. They don't like business getting outside. They like to keep everything inside, even scouting reports.
If a piece of paper is on the floor, it gets crumpled up and thrown away. They make sure you turn everything back in and shred all that stuff. Adam Vinatieri : He knew what was going on in the building at all times. He controlled which doors we went out of. The way in and out of our locker room to our cars was right by his office. I think when they built it, there was probably planning involved. Rosevelt Colvin: "At practice, Bill twirls that whistle around his two fingers, watching everything, seeing everything.
He could be on another field, I'm not kidding now, he could be on another field and come running over because he saw that the key guy on a kickoff return missed his block. Phil Savage: "Most coaches specialize on one side of the ball.
But he's one of the few out there who have a global perspective of the entire game and all 22 positions. He's a true coach of all 22 positions plus every specialist. That's a rarity. He's one of the few coaches out there who, if you dropped him on the staff at Drake University and said, 'Hey, be the tight ends coach,' he could absolutely coach those tight ends to the nth degree.
Rosevelt Colvin: "The dude's a walking football encyclopedia. He can give you the history of the spread formation or the single wing. I tell people all the time, if you ever had a conversation with him about football it would be one of the greatest conversations you ever had in your whole life. Jon Robinson: "He always migrated toward the defensive line at some point in practice.
It was cool to see him work with Vince Wilfork, teaching him technique in his early stages. Every day he worked with me.
He made me understand it. There were times when I was pissed off. But he's the one I credit for the career I've had. He never took his foot off the pedal. Aqib Talib: "Once, in practice, Brady threw a seam ball that was intercepted, and Bill, man, he chewed Tom out, saying, 'You got career interceptions,' or whatever it was, 'and half of them are on this route.
You keep doing the same s over and over and this is what happens. Rosevelt Colvin: "Any time something bad happened at practice, the two words you don't ever want to hear come out of his mouth are 'Take off. If he was really pissed off, he'd yell 'Take off,' wait a few seconds and then add 'Everybody!
We'd all circle back, inching up, hoping not to hear 'Keeeeep going. Kevin Faulk: "We prepared for everything. Not saying we perfected it, but we prepared for everything. There's no second-guessing or hesitation when you play for Bill. When you have to think on the field, it slows you down.
When you know exactly what you're doing and how to do it and why you're doing it, that allows you to play faster, and your talent flows freely. It's like being in class. They hand you a test, you open it up, look at the questions and go, 'Wow, I know all the answers already. Matt Cassel Patriots Quarterback, : "Every Tuesday during the season, the quarterbacks would sit down with him and get his scouting report.
He'd go through, in a detailed report, the strengths and weaknesses of every opponent that we were going up against. Mainly DBs, sometimes linebackers. But also we'd talk about the defensive coordinator, his philosophy, where he came from, his background, and he'd give you, basically, a great understanding of who your opponent is going to be.
Don Jones Patriots Safety, : "Tuesday they would give us the scouting report, and on Wednesday morning Bill would go around the whole room -- from Tom Brady down to the bottom man on the roster -- and ask everybody about the person they were going against. It's the kind of success Belichick's fellow Boston coaches can only dream of accomplishing. Red Sox manager Alex Cora, Celtics head coach Brad Stevens, and Bruins head coach Bruce Cassidy can't help but marvel at the year-old's ability to get his teams to buy in each and every season.
They are in one direction. His message, although has thousands of complexities within each scheme defensively and offensively, his message is concise.
You can tell that thing is a juggernaut.
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