Good Bill Belichick Stories

Good Bill Belichick storiesCredit SI

Posted By: County Sports Network September 2, 2020

Good Bill Belichick stories – with Belichick some things never change

By STEVE KING

The ESPN Radio interview with first-year New York Giants head coach Joe Judge the other morning ended with a great question.

It was so good, in fact, that it ended the robotic, coach-speak answers that Judge had given to all the other questions. It even caused him to laugh, something he probably doesn’t do very often

That, he was asked, “What is your best Bill Belichick story?”

Judge had been with Belichick in New England the previous eight seasons, all of them working on special teams, including most of it as the coordinator of those units. As such, then, Judge no doubt has a lot of outstanding tales, and actually admitted as much.

Of all the good Bill Belichick stories the one he picked – and the one that he said he and Belichick laughed about often through the years – was from Judge’s job interview with Belichick in 2012. As Judge recalled, about halfway through the interview, Belichick got up out of his chair and began changing clothes for an event he had that evening.

“I didn’t know what was going on,” Judge said. “Was he trying to test me and see how I would react to it. I didn’t know, so I just kept talking, as if nothing were going on. The takeaway from it is that Bill Belichick is a busy guy. He often is doing two things at once.”

Long before Belichick went to New England as head coach in 2000, of course, he spent five seasons (1991-95, the last years of the original franchise’s tenure in Cleveland) as head coach of the Browns. I’ve always maintained that there are even better stories – and weirder ones, too — from his time in Cleveland because, as a head coach at least, he was not a finished product yet. He was still cutting his teeth in that regard, learning how to go from being a big part of a team, as he was as defensive coordinator of the Giants, with whom he worked just prior to arriving in Cleveland, to an even bigger role with the Browns.

It doesn’t seem like it because the years have whizzed by so quickly, but that was such a long time ago, nearly three decades.

Now the Browns – once again – have in Kevin Stefanski another first-year head coach who has never been a head coach before at any level. If he turns out half as well as Belichick has – in New England, that is – then Browns fans will be thrilled.

And by the way, just to get this on the record, I don’t think Stefanski would ever change clothes during an interview for an assistant coach.

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