Hey "Johnette"(????)!

Everybody knows Belicheat is a jerk, so picking on his "disciples" is easy pickings indeed. I suppose your next genius-level insight will be about the LA Clippers draft strategy. As somebody who lives in Denver, your comments regarding McDaniels are way out of line. Almost nobody here who knew Mike Shanahan's cluelessness regarding defensive talent  thought the Broncos would win more than five games the whole year.

Considering all the smart moves Belichick has made over the years, which would include choosing a 199th pick to start over your Pro Bowl QB after one season, bringing in Corey Dillon, letting go of disgruntled veterans such as Ty Law and Lawyer Milloy, bringing in Randy Moss and Wes Welker, trading away Deion Branch (who is barely a No. 2 wideout) for a 1st round pick, trading away Richard Seymour for a 1st round pick, I'm fairly sure I'll take his decisions any day over yours.

You and other so called media experts have been blasting Belichick for years, and yet, which one of the above moves would you have made? Oh wait, you were busy saying how none of the would work out or made sense right? So what you're actually saying is that on every single big decision that makes or breaks a coach, you were dead wrong and Belichick was right. Ah, makes more sense now.

As much as I HATE Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots (Jets Fan) I don't agree with the rest of the sports world in saying that Belicheck's 4th and 2 "go for it" was a bad call.

The only reason that bandwagoners are calling it such is because it didn't work. If it worked, he would have been regarded as a genius. No one would have disputed it.

Bottom line, when you watch Peyton drive the ball down the field effortlessly not 2.5 minutes before that play, you realize that he had MORE than enough time to drive the ball down the field 70 yards. Peyton and Brady are THOSE type of quarterbacks. How many times have you seen both of them drive the ball down the field with 2 minutes left to win the game?

I liken this to me watching the Yankees pitch to Big Papi while Big Papi was juicing. Every single time the guy got up to plate late in a close game, I yelled at my TV, "HIT HIM or WALK HIM!" I said to myself, I don't care whose up behind him, I don't care how many people are on base, at best the guy is going to draw a walk, at worst the game is going to be over. More often than not, I was right.

Belichick's "gamble" was that he would rather put the game in the hands of Brady than in the hands of Peyton. I don't see anything wrong with that. People forget that when these guys are "on" they could move the ball 250 yards without a hiccup. Any other quarterback in the NFL, INCLUDING BREES, and I would have punted it. I think Belichick would have too.

Johnette, let me know which of the following decisions you would have made: 1) starting the 199th overall pick over your Pro Bowl QB, 2) trading away Deion Branch when you had no legit wideouts for a No. 1 pick, 3) letting go of veterans like Ty Law and Lawyer Milloy, 4) signing Randy Moss who appeared to be in serious decline, 5) trading away Richard Seymour, one of the best lineman in the game still in his prime when you already don't have good pass rushing or run stuffing, 6) signing Corey Dillon, disgruntled and unmotivated in Cincinnati, to help secure the running game.

Oh wait, you wouldn't have made any of them because you were busy criticizing all those moves weren't you? Makes sense, because as a writer you have absolutely no accountability, which makes it easy for you to say and do stupid things and get away with it. Makes lots more sense now.

Seems like Johnette took a "hate" pill before writing this - not much substance, just vitriol - and to think she got paid for scripting this sewage....

I no longer question anything Bill Belichick does, since he truly is a genius--albeit a evil one. I have been saying for a long time that he is a poor mentor. ESPN The Mag wrote a piece not that long ago about the way Belichick delegates to his underlings. He'll have them work on a project, report the findings (which is often something profound, as they are desperate to earn his trust) and then he incorporates that added knowledge into his ever-growing football encyclopedia of a mind. The problem is none of that knowledge flows the other way. He is a parasite, siphoning football intellect out of his assistants then releasing them out into the world armed with nothing more than the limited expertise they handed to The Boss on a silver platter.