Everyone whines when the Patriots beat their team and calls "cheater" on them.
Fans are odd about them. Everyone hates them outside of NE and just has a hard time admitting that they have Brady and Belichick and that's a BIG advantage. Once they are gone we won't hear a peep about them cheating, it'll be someone else.
Manning deflated footballs and nobody cared. Brady did it and it was discussed forever.
For sure, but those other teams are myopic with how they cheat, and it’s not always cheating.
Bellichick just takes it to a whole new level. Like earlier he was bragging about eating extra time from the clock with delay of game penalties being declined.
He wasn’t bragging about cheating, he was bragging on his own intelligence, noting that he studied the other coach’s tendencies so well that he knew he could get the result he wanted at that point in the game.
Then you have the Cowboys game. It really wasn’t cheating, rather it was an existing rule that isn’t called much. He isn’t measuring just a teams tendency to commit a penalty so much as the officials reaction to it, so the ones he can control through coaching players is what we expect from the word coach. It’s when he controls other variables outside of instruction to players that throws us.
So it’s a combination of factors, controlling variables in ways that are against rules which other teams do as well and finding coachable players to execute.
I’ve always thought that the best way to beat Bellichick was to have another coach feed you plays all game. If there is a myopic aspect of his coaching, it’s how well he studies you.
It doesn’t help our perception that he is a sociopath, but he in’t really doing anything that other coaches haven’t already done, like stealing a playbook vs spy gate. He’s just so broad with every aspect because I think he is bored with the details of play design and strategy.