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Greg Doyel on D&C: Bill Belichick ‘shows no loyalty to anybody’ 03.19.13 at 10:39 am ET
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CBSSports.com writer Greg Doyel talked with Dennis & Callahan on Tuesday to discuss his recent column about Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, in which he suggests Belichick is overrated and Brady deserves the credit for the team’s success.

“[Belichick is] walking across that tightrope every single year, thinking, ‘Look how brave I am on this tightrope, I’m going to get from here to there,’ and there’s a huge safety net three feet below him named Tom Brady, only he doesn’t even seem to get it. … He’s got the greatest quarterback of this generation and has had him for 10 or 12 years,” Doyel said. “Up and down in the NFL, history shows, great quarterbacks win, period. Great quarterbacks do not lose, they do win, and my feeling is the coach pretty much gets too much credit.

“The way he jettisons everybody, the way he shows no loyalty to anybody, the list of Patriots he’s just cut loose or franchised and chased them out of town or whatever. From [Wes] Welker, all the way back to Asante Samuel  before, the arrogance of that suggests to me that he’s arrogant not because he knows Tom Brady lets him get away with it. He’s arrogant because he thinks he gets away with it.”

Doyel also discussed the comparisons between Brady in 2001, when he won his first Super Bowl, and Brady today.

“Clearly the Brady that evolved after 2001 was better than that one because players do get better, and the [Matt] Cassel thing is a feather in Belichick’s cap,” Doyel said, adding: “But about 2008, I think the Patriots had superior talent on both sides of the ball, but on defense, too, in large part because players go where Brady is. But in 2001, yeah, Brady wasn’t the Brady he is now, but he’s still Brady.”

While Doyel does believe that Belichick is a good coach, he does not classify him as “great.” Two coaches who he would put in that category are the Harbaugh brothers.

“Both Harbaughs are great,” Doyel said. “I think Jim Harbaugh, specifically Jim, even though he didn’t win the Super Bowl, Jim Harbaugh is the greatest football coach in the world.
“When I say that about Harbaugh, yeah it’s about what’s now, but it’s everywhere. It’s everywhere. He went to San Diego — not San Diego State, San Diego. Terrible program, and they won, and then when he left they kept winning because whatever does, he puts his culture of winning that continued after he was gone. He goes to Stanford, can’t win. They win there, they keep winning after he’s gone, the culture continues. San Francisco, too. There’s something about him that’s just really, really special.”

To hear the interview, go the the Dennis & Callahan audio on demand page. For more Patriots news, visit the team page at weei.com/patriots.

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  • Gregg Doyel’s Mother

    My son is an idiot… Enough said. Arguably the best coach in NFL history. But let’s talk about the insufferable Harbaugh brothers some more…

  • Gregg Doyel’s step dad

    “the arrogance of that suggests to me that he’s arrogant”……..insightful comment. try to come up with something new when you attempt to write or speak. let’s see…..Brady is great, Bill is arrogant, i wish Jim H was my dad……gotta go, time to pick up my appearance fee

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=532990034 Harvey Ardman

    Doyel has found a way to get publicity, but he’s not the first. Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter do exactly the same thing–making outrageous statements they are unqualified to utter. I hope he enjoys the company.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=532990034 Harvey Ardman

    Doyel has found a way to get publicity, but he’s not the first. Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter do exactly the same thing–making outrageous statements they are unqualified to utter. I hope he enjoys the company.

  • Dan M

    Whatever point this guy is trying to make is completely discredited by the comparison of Bill Belichick to the Harbaugh brothers of all people. Their records are combined can’t hold a candle to Bill Belichick. And on the issue of loyalty ,how about Jim’s loyalty to Alex Smith?
    Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft run the Patriots like a business as it should be, and not like some club for people who want to rest on their past laurels or care only about themselves.
    What is really amazing to me si how many people like Mr. Doyel get paid well for writing or speaking drivel like this and thrive on creating “news” where this is none.

  • Guy

    So what did Asante do in Philadelphia? The Eagles PUBLICLY stated he was a disappointment and immediately traded him.

    I’m still waiting on the big-name the Patriots let walk for massive money that actually lived up to their contracts. Branch? No. Seymour? No. McGinnest? No. Law? Kind of. Moss? No.

    Belichick has over a decades worth of success and showing he knows how to field a team. Some 2nd rate deadbeat author looking for shock factor clearly does not know better than HOF bound Belichick.

  • http://www.facebook.com/walter.jalbert Silence Dogood

    Doyle is a Moron with an Agenda – Belichik has never coached in college; no one knows what kind of record he’d put up. Harbaugh has been in the league 2 years and while he’s done well, he hasn’t had time to put up a record to compare.

    The NFL is very hard to win in on a consistent basis. Belichik does it as well as anybody.

    The quarterback argument is just plain stupid; Of course yo need a good quarterback to win consistently. All the great coaches had great quarterbacks; no exception.

    Doyle knows as much about football as he does about hair products

  • Holden

    This clown is an idiot. Maybe he has the Jets and the Patriots mixed up.

  • Anonymous

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    Doyel is a BUFFOON

    He’s the Rex Ryan of bloggers
    CBS Sports on line ???? What is that ???
    Why does WEEI keep interviewing this fool ???

    .

  • Anonymous

    Harbaugh inherited a good team that was put together before he got there , like Rex Ryan did with the JETS

  • Anonymous

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    Doyel is the Rachel Maddow of sports bloggers
    .

  • B-

    If the coach has little to do with winning and it is all about the quarterback how does Doyle explain the Matt Cassel Year?

  • Moses Scurry

    I was going to make a negative comment, but his edgy publicity photo scared me off. Singer in a Daughtry cover band.

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