A Glowing Bill of Health: Belichick's NFL Coaching Legacy

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🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Bill Belichick is considered by many to be the greatest NFL coach of all time. On Sunday, he won his 300th game. So how did Belichick become the standard of excellence in the NFL? ESPN's Bill Barnwell joins Mina to discuss the Patriots' dominant win over the Browns. Then, Senior Writer Ian O'Connor - who wrote the book on the Patriots' coach - takes a deep dive into Belichick's football legacy and where he goes from here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bill Belichick reaches the milestone.
0:04.0	300 career wins, and he does it leading the Patriots to their eighth victory in as many games this season against the Browns here in Foxborough.
0:13.0	Bill Belichick is widely viewed as the greatest coach in NFL history.
0:20.0	But is it possible that, with the Patriots' defense
0:23.0	achieving historical greatness this year,
0:25.7	he might have taken things to another level?
0:28.1	Today, why they're so dominant,
0:31.0	and what's next for the hoodie?
0:33.3	I'm Mina Kimes.
0:34.5	It's Monday, October 28th.
0:36.6	This is ESPN Daily, presented by Dell Small Business.
0:46.2	Bill Barnwell is a senior football writer at ESPN. He's also my friend. And someone I text all Sunday during the NFL season, love having access to his brain,
0:57.2	talking to him about the games. Bill, what's up? Hey, Mina. I will say we've gotten a little more
1:03.3	league general over the course of our years texting about the NFL. I think kind of in the early
1:08.0	days, it was strictly about germermaine Curse at all points.
1:11.1	I'm happy that we've grown and covered the entire NFL at this point in our conversations.
1:15.7	Speaking of covering the entire NFL in teams that we would not have been texting about, perhaps as much in past years, today we were texting about the Patriots.
1:24.9	And during their win over the Cleveland Browns, we were texting just about
1:29.0	how historically dominant this defense has been this season. Through eight weeks, they're allowing
1:34.5	just 7.6 points per game. No other team is below 10. So let's start there. Bill, who's running
1:42.4	this defense? I mean, this is the Patriots way, right? There's
1:46.1	always a certain level of skullduggery when it comes to any good Patriot story. And I guess this one is no
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