David Halberstam's The Education Of A Coach

The book I chose was The Education of a Coach, which is a biography of Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and was written by David Halberstam. The book was very interesting to me because I am a football fan and Patriots fan. There were some good take-aways from the book from when Bill was successful and from when he wasn’t. One thing I wish the book could have talked about was problems that Belichick and the Patriots were called out after about Spygate. I would like to see a second book about how he took his team through controversy’s and two Super Bowl Losses to the Giants to redeeming them selves to win a franchise fourth Super Bowl Victory and for Bill his sixth.

The book started out talking about Bill’s father, Steve Belichick. Steve

Belichick’s football genius had started to show through and help him move up the football coaching ranks. He followed Bill Parcell’s as his defensive coordinator from the New York Giants, to Patriots, and then the New York Jets teams made Belichick known. He became known as one of the best defensive coordinators in the game and the opportunity to be the head coach of his own team was given to him in 1991. He was head-coach of the Cleveland Browns from 1991-1995 but his time there was not successful. Belichick’s many habits of being very secretive about players and player injuries to his being so boring with the press were made more noticeable by the bad teams and bad decisions he made while at Cleveland. Belichick did not handled situations very well, specifically with the press and those higher up in the organization. The worst was the problem he made when he demoted the starting quarter back Bernie Kosar. After a losing season when Cleveland fired

So Mr. Kraft hired Bill as the head coach. Belichick turned the patriots around and made them one of the best teams in history wining three championships in four years. Many of Belichick’s flaws that were seen as signs of weakness and a lack of leadership in Cleveland, had turned into the keys to being a successful head coach in the NFL. Bill Belichick is for sure not the same coach he was in Cleveland. He’s a genius I think and learned from his mistakes in Cleveland and wont let himself repeat them. The results have shown to be true because now he is considered to be one of the greatest head-coaches ever and with 9 Super Bowl appearances and 6 wins it’s hard to