How Bill Belichick innovated his defense (again). 

Alright guys, the AFC East got some love in the comments as the *actual* top division in football, and it’s honestly hard to get mad at that. I feel like any of these teams besides Buffalo could finish anywhere from 1-4. Let me know where you agree or disagree Bills Dolphins Jets Patriots

People underestimate the genuis of Belicheck he's one of the goats for a reason especially defensively

I wish you talked about their ability to defend the run with small guys on the field

Watching this after the eagles game. If the offense didn’t have two turnovers then the whole world would be talking about how this defense just clamped a top 3 offense and made the best O Line look like Swiss cheese for part of it

Hugely appreciate the terminology explanations. People throw em around all the time, but few do a good job explaining them.

Now you see why the Patriots place a high premium on defensive backs more than any other team in the league rather than pass rushers.

As a Ravens fan, people really need to stop underestimating Belichick because his team is going to be ready for the season especially defensively because they added pieces through the draft which are going to contribute. I do think the Patriots could win 10 or nine games. The offense just has to be good enough somewhere in 15th or 12th in the league

ima jets fan and ppl need to stop writing bill off like he isn’t the best coach in the league. consistently he’s putting out a great defense and molding it in so many ways. i hate to say it but the pats are on the prowl. don’t overlook him

Ridiculously consistent at putting together top five defenses

0:36 Personnel 2:00 Versatility 2:39 Disguise (Example: Cover 0 Shell) 4:54 Communication (Man Freestyle Wrinkles) 6:39 On-Field Audibles 7:31 Kyle Dugger (Hybrid Safety Versatility) 8:26 Front 5 Stunts & Pressures

What still blows my mind is this dude has had utter dominance for the past 20 years and now that he's had a few bad years ppl are calling for his job.

Mapu and Gonzales will be two names that I’ll be exited to hear in the next patriots defense video.

I specifically remember hearing Pat calling out zero in the SB and being so annoyed bc my eagles maybe sent a zero blitz a couple times all season at best. ELITE

this was a great little analysis. very educational.

This video came to me at the perfect time. It’s the reassurance that I needed. Thank you for your great work. I wish you the best. Blessings!

Once again brother…outstanding. Made my morning. Thank you for the analysis and insight. ☺️🙏🏾✊🏾

Just for this video, you my friend have earned a like and a subscriber!. 👊

so much insight in these offseason vidoes, thanks

Its incredible to see what he has done over the years. His defense looks nothing like the Ty Law, McGinest, Bruschi, Lawyer Milloy, R. Seymour, era... People have covered videos of how the league copied his fronts but he is doing it with d list celebrities. Most teams / fanbases would shit their pants if they had the rosters he seems to endlessly make top 5/10.

Great video, thanks Alex

Hey great job illustrating the defensive schemes and the philosophies being pursued by Belichick

THANK YOU!

Great content! Stumbled upon your channel from YT recommendations. Will subscribe.

It’s gotta be so fun being a defensive player on the patriots

If only he could do this with the offense

Brady is obviously Brady but these fanatics who dismiss what Belichick has done just to prop up Brady as more than a QB really don't understand how this football thing works. Why do people act like they know what's happening from a TV broadcast angle?

Great video bro

I think the personnel also gets really underappreciated. They might not have the same star power as other teams, but about 9 guys who I'd say are at least above average starters and close to like 17 who are guys who'd be starting on most teams, with a great blend of holdovers from before Tom Brady left (Deatrich Wise Jr., JuWhaun Bentley), free agency acquisitions (Davon Godchaux, Matthew Judon, Jalen Mills, Adrian Phillips, Jabrill Peppers), and draft picks (Christian Barmore, Kyle Dugger, Josh Uche, etc;). Each of their top three picks (Gonzalez, Keion White and Marte Mapu) are all guys with awesome upside and all directly fill holes that the defense had last year, and honestly it just feels like each year since about 2018, Belichick has been just working to get closer and closer to the perfect defense.

Great video, 00:39 The meta offense for the league is heavy passing attack so it’s probably why he has extra DBs in the dime package. However, it leaves you vulnerable to run attacks but since teams are turning RBs into an ancillary position his risk came to fruition.

im glad they are getting jc back in there imma look out for this package cool vid

100k right around the corner bro🔥🔥🔥

Your videos and Baldy's breakdowns are my go-to as far as analysis goes

Dugger flashing some Reed-like greatness on some of those plays.

I cant imagine the butt kicking Jack Jones had to endure from Old man Bellicheck for getting arrested during the offseason.

I’m glad you brought this video to life. The collection of players they have gives this scheme a dimension not many others can have. Excited to see what this defense can do with (hopefully) a competent offense and special teams can do to give them more breaks and better field position.

this is why running qb's give Him so much trouble. I used to use Dime packs and Nickle in my Madden games. but now I get why he has tough times with running qbs. thx

as a giants fan i never understood the disrespect he gets he is the only headcoach thats knowledgeble in two phases of the game

I love your content, Alex! What’s the name of the song at the end?

Its all about "Development" with coach B, He could take 5 semi good athletes from Anywhere and make them Great Football players.

These videos are awesome! They make me interested in watching teams, to watch these schemes, that I usually wouldn't be interested in watching. Major networks should adopt more of this in-depth analysis, to bring in more interest, instead of always catering to casual, surface-level fans, fantasy watchers, and gamblers.

I've been studying the Saban defense and obviously him and Bill have a long history. They run similar concepts and nobody has as many coverages as Saban/ Belichick. Both love the Sink front (Bear) and Dime. I agree 100% about Dugger. He's the film nerds favorite young safety. His versatility fits Belichick perfectly

Awesome video - go pats!

Not a pats fan, but I’ve noticed the same with them throughout the last few years. They play with a lot of speed and DBs, and almost try to trick you into throwing because they’ll crowd the LOS as well. Seems like a simple idea, but the fact most teams aren’t doing it as much and having as much success it is probably very difficult to consistently execute. Just a GOAT being a GOAT (Bill Bell.)

I remember the Chicago game last year and how the Bears ran right down their throat with that dime package

Ran across this video while watching some vids about the offenses of football. If I were to be a football coach, I would definitely be looking at Belichick's defensive game-planning. Belichick used a lot of Dime throughout his coaching career. He told the story of how he shutdown the Lions Run & Shoot Offense when he was the NY Giants DC by matching speed with speed & he ran Dime all through the game . The result? The Giants shutout the Lions 20-0

This probably will never happen, but I'd love to see Bill get someone like Isaiah Simmons and make some quarter packages with 7 DBs and 3 DL, and have Simmons alternate between coverage and blitzing.

I already like Mack Jones, even before the start of NFL season. The way to a great season for the Patriots is for every department and every specialty team to perform. That's what Bill Belacheck did exceptionally during the years with Brady as QB. Another way is to to protect the quarterback and to prevent him from being sacked; almost every time. This way the Quarterback will perform even better at the next ball game of the Patriots. He will perform and throw highly accurate accurate fast throws to all catchers to the best of his abilities. Every time a quarterback is sacked, there is a chance he may not perform as well if injured during a sack or two.

I will comeback to this video at the end of the season.

Hr also likes to pick up safeties that are a bit heavy and between safeties and lbs to roam the middle and still be able to tackle a rb at full speed

Enjoy this as always. So much emphasis on offense these days. Good to see the D gets paid too

Wait this is so cool. I'm excited for the Eagles week 1 game

It's interesting that for all the fluid innovations in his defensive philosophy, he's seemingly stuck w/ the Okie front, instead of switching to a Tite front, especially in combination w/ Mint and dime packages. I'm guessing that the extra pressure brought by their D precludes much of the need for clogging both B gaps, b/c it essentially ends up doubling as a run blitz.

He’s still a genius especially on defense. He’s still trying to figure things out on offense since Brady left but something tells me he’s going to figure it out.

Belichick can still coach a great defense. The problem is their offense cant score more than 8 points a game with Tom Brady.

So Glad all of these belichick vids have been dropping. He gets underrated, overlooked and def most of all underappreciated because of biased brady lovers who want to make it about who had more to do with the Pats legacy when Bill gave Tom the biggest margin for error and security blanket of any QB in the history of the NFL

I think this is what Pete is trying to do in Seattle as well. He has so many good defensive backs such Woolen, Witherspoon, Bryant, Jackson, Tre, Diggs, Adams, and Love

This video was dope, its always cool to see just how unique the Patriots System is. Especially on defense, knowing Its Bill B running the show back there. I still don't understand the comments saying hes an ass head coach without Brady....... Like You lose the GREATEST QB IN NFL HISTORY and see how easy it is to bounce back. Its Not like he can go out and draft another one. Especially since the Pats are never the 1-5 picks in the draft. At this point its goofy of you to think.

Can you talk about the falcons offense?

O tackle, Tyrone Wheatley Jr. from cleveland OT Vederian Lowe from the Vikings, BB is a genius

So what yer sayin is . . .Bill doesn't like to have any opponents Wide-Ass-Open :) Nice video. I was a Pats fan prior to, and all through the Brady years. As much as people laud Tom, Bill's D has typically always been there.

Could you guys imagine, even for a second... if he got his hands on an Ed Reed / Sean Taylor / Derwin James level saftey? Good gravy 🤌

Always wondered why 6 DB's was a Dime package. Saw a video that explained 5th DB is called a Nickle Back. 6 DB's = 2 Nickles = 1 Dime. Blew my mind lol.

Tom Brady became good at reading defenses because bill taught him. Tom Brady is BB with an arm. People forget Tom Brady has the highest 3rd down conversion rate. The only way that happens is if you understand defense.

Thanks Alex! Even though you disrespected my QB like that. I still support you!

He innovated his defense so well that he let a defensive coach call offensive plays all last year

“You know everyone thinks we such and you know, can’t win any games. So we’ll see, it’ll be fun.” Keep sleeping on Foxboro🔥🐐💯

Makes me extremely happy the Lions stole Brian Branch from Belicheck lol. Branch would have been perfect for him. I believe if Gonzalez was gone at 17, Branch would have been taken at 17 instead.

This was fantastic 👏 🏈 in Bill I trust. I've been a Belichick guy ever since his genius plan against Bills in Super Bowl

George Allen was doing this in the 60s.

72-3 in the last 2 weeks...

I think Marte Mapu is another guy who really can fit into this

The Patriots, defensive line is going to be a lot more better than it was last year because they added a guy by the name of keion white who was drafted in the second round who can play inside and out along with being a physical freak of nature.

Sitting our number 1 corner during the superbowl was the icing on the cake for me. Brady threw for over 505 yards and 3 tds. Bill threw the game for his own personal reasons, which to this day nobody knows.

Jet defense rated 3 (added Rogers to offense) Bills defense ranked 9 (Josh Allen at QB) Miami ranked defense 11 ( Tua is coming back)

Judon is Patriots best defender as of right now but I think Dugger is the key piece that unlocks it. Wouldn’t be surprised if Dugger is the best defender on the Pats at the end of the season.

anyone else have the audio cut in and out the whole video. I thought I was lagging, but it has plenty of buffer and the 4 ads that played all had no issues, my internet connection is great... is it just in the video file, I havent seen this happen before.

Still sub .500 without Brady as Patriots coach.

I love Kyle Dugger.... Belichick is doing versatility the right way.

The defensive stats also decreased because they spent 40+ mins on the field every game

All the geniuses that criticize Bill for favoring the defense would be criticizing him for not building a better defense if he favored offense. There is no way for a human being to be equally invested in all three phases of the game, and he is smart to take advantage of his ability to design and build defenses, and delegate the rest to his coordinators. And it's not the post Brady era, it's the post Brady, Gronk, Julian, Josh, Dante, Ernie era, and you don't rebuild all that in one or two years.

Being free from Matt Patricia helps.

Let's see how good he looks with the Oline he has this year.

Y’all don’t get it that 7 win mediocre patriots team really wasn’t that good, the defense opted out during covid(most main starters and some backups as well) no matter who says what cam newton wasn’t good for the team production wise, yeah he was big so when he was close he could get in, but for every drive like that cam would do something that make you say wow then fumble or throw a pick, the most memorable reciever was damere Byrd (he was the only guy who could get any separation because he was fast). That team had the talent to win 4 games max, they really should’ve ranked and competed for Trevor instead of mac but nonetheless, time and time again the man shows his worth as a coach, yet the mainstream media makes it seem like there’s a better option outside those walls and honestly it’s ludacris, no disrespect to jerod mayo in time he will do fine kinda like a Brian Flores with player experience, but to say bill needs to be fired? Crazy talk by the media. Let’s mot forget what happened last year again you could argue with how bad the offense was 8-9 was overachieving, I actually enjoyed watching the defense more than the offense because the defense was everything the offense wasn’t , fast , explosive to the ball, smart, they all seemed to have great hands, jack jones despite being a bonehead is honestly a good db with the potential to be great if he stays out of trouble after this

This is what Darnold means when he sees "ghosts" lol

3:38 🤣🤣🤣

Alex, this is the kind of distraction I needed after the Lance situation. I am team Brock, and have been since he stared down that "Belichick Special" 8 man pressure Miami sent at him and delivered a strike to Kittle. You know the play, you have covered it many times before, where he will send the house and teach guys who are accounted for to drop off to middle zones just to get a free rusher at the QB. that being said, the 49ers did Lance dirty and it makes me feel sick inside to call myself a fan of the 49ers right now.

Where is the other line marker at 2:35?

Nick Saban and Bill Belichick are good freinds. That defense is Cover 7 and the Alabama use the same defense.

I’ve wondered for 30 years why teams don’t do this. My rule would always be that they would have to beat me on the ground. It’s hard to carry out a long drive.

This reminds me of the old Ravens defense except Bill is doing all the moving, shifting and versatility in the secondary when the old Ravens did it with the front 7. Smart defense really.

*"With his Kermit-ass voice"* My wife who doesn't even watch football Saw Mahomes on TV one day and was randomly like.... "That guys voice pisses me off !" 😂😭💀 Great video BTW. Bill catches hell from fellow Patriots fans lately and I'm like are you guys NOT seeing the ridiculousness of this Patriots defense???

Shots fired at Mac Jones as you said “mediocrity” look in no Mac stan but he did okay as a rookie and no way to blame him for last year’s OC debacle. Still you’re right 😂

top 5 defense is kinda crazy

Nobody doubts he's a great coach, but as a GM he's not good. He should step down as GM and focus on coaching. Can you imagine if Bill coached Eagles' roster? Eagles' GM put a great roster this last few seasons.

I always will say: In Belichick we trust!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Was the Cover 0 with Zone, the Pats used against the Eagles this past week (week 1) a new wrinkle?

So what I'm hearing is that if the Patriots have a great defense, a decent run game, and a relatively solid O-Line they can do well with a mediocre quarterback? As a long time and die hard Patriots fan (since Bledsoe was quarterback in case you're wondering) all I have to say is that the last time we had all of those we won Super Bowls. And yes, early Brady was pretty mediocre.

Idc who is on that Defense, he is always going to have a great Secondary, smart Linebackers, and a front 7 that play games and you can predict.

Will see if we can stop the run

BB’s genius is he never or rarely plays a true cover zero, it’s more like a cover zero drop meaning if he rushes 6 vs 5 the 1 rusher who gets blocked drops immediately as soon as he’s engaged. Let’s the free guy have an easy rush to the QB and basically creates a 4v5 rush