People being people.
Sometimes it's tragic. And when it isn't tragic it's almost always hilarious.
So, Bill Belichick, it turns out, is human after all. (You can Google "Patriots dysfunction" and select your favorite source for sports journalism for the deets.) He can make mistakes. Sometimes - just like everyone else - his emotional intelligence gets drunk and puts dad's car in a ditch.
Friends, it turns out, can be a double-edged sword.
Sometimes people like each other. Sometimes they just don't. And sometimes, they really, really don't.
And after two days of thinking about the Herald's Patriots 2022 autopsy, I have to say, I'm a little disappointed.
I suppose a contributing factor in my disappointment is that most of what we've recently "learned" seemed patently obvious to anyone watching the team.
More importantly, as major dysfunction stories go, this one seems almost clinical; we're seeing the after action review (and the beginnings of the plan to take corrective action). It seems to me that the crux of the matter was a fairly common mistake that people in organizations make; thinking that something that looks simple from the outside is actually simple. Dumping Erhardt-Perkins for the Shanahan system on offense wasn't a terrible idea. Thinking you could implement a new offense without the expertise and insight to the complexities involved, essentially on the fly, was, as we all witnessed, a disaster.
Quick Aside: As far as it goes, whether Bill O'Brien was available last year or not, I wonder why the Pats didn't adopt the Alabama offensive scheme after Josh McDaniels left. I suppose they didn't have the speed at wide receiver. Still, McCorkle looked pretty good running that offense in college.
What was reported by the Boston Herald and re-reported by every pigskin pundit and bobblehead in New England strikes me as the kind of organizational dysfunction you can find in any business with more than 25 employees. To put it poetically…
People are people so why should it be?
You and I should get along so awfully?
None of the parties involved threw hands. Nobody walked off the field during a game. Even as they struggled, I didn't see anyone quit. Nobody called Bill Belichick a liar (this time). Yeah, he screwed the pooch but even those unnamed sources still acknowledged Belichick thought he was doing the best thing for the team. He was just wrong this time. Very, very wrong.
The good news?
Belichick likes nothing more than fixing a problem. And he has the cap space to do it.
Go Pats!
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