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Bill Belichick's only fetish is winning. Feet, legs, people wearing furry outfits, none of that entices him.
He wants to win football games so much everything else in life is a distraction. Can you imagine Bill Belichick making a foot fetish video with his wife? Of course not. That's wasted time. The feet, Belichick would think, you can't sleep with the feet.
Rex Ryan is different, Falstaff in a headset, a walking quote machine who generates Internet page views at a faster clip than Brett Favre's text pictures. But Rex is all bluster, if he loses to the Patriots he'll be flipping fans off at the next UFC fight. He'll get over the defeat, come back next year talking more trash. Belichick is different. He marinates in his defeat, pulls his hoodie over his head and hibernates like the Emperor in "Return of the Jedi." Every thought comes back to football, every waking moment is an opportunity to gain a competitive advantage.
Every other coach bows prostate before Brady and Manning. What do you have to lose by trying to get inside their heads? You can lose face, which most coaches hate. Ryan can handle it. That's why he's getting personal this week with the modern-day Lombardi.
-- David Whitley on why Rex Ryan and the Jets will down Bill Belichick and the Patriots
Wonder how good at what he does Bill Belichick is? His coaching tree is a sequoia with no branches. Everyone who has left him to succeed on his own has fallen to the forest floor, looking up dazed at the sky above -- Bill Belichick's brilliance is solitary. Romeo Crennel, Josh McDaniels, Eric Mangini, and Charlie Weis? Failure, failure, failure, failure. Belichick could plug in your Aunt Gladys and have her named coordinator of the year.
He's that good at what he does.
Rex Ryan has a life outside football. That means you'd rather spend time with Ryan, have a beer with him, invite him over for the Super Bowl, marry him and make a video where your feet hang outside the window and he pretends to be a police officer. But you wouldn't rather pick him to coach your team in a football game. No way, no how. You want a robot, a football Svengali, a man who cares so much about winning that if you stand next to him the penumbra of his success makes you look like a genius, too.
Source: http://nfl.fanhouse.com/2011/01/12/bill-belichicks-patriots-will-destroy-rex-ryans-jets/
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