BDS in the NFL

  Carolyn's Corner


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Bill Belichick is a legendary coach.  His preparation for each game and time in the film room is legendary.  His ability to motivate, positively or negatively, is legendary.  His attention to detail is legendary.  His commitment to and love of the game is legendary.  His own legendary quarterback Tom Brady says Belichick is, quite simply, the greatest of all time.

(And here some might add his ""gates," such as "Spygate" and "Deflate-gate" are legendary as well.  As are his sartorial on-field sartorial choices, in a weird sort of way.)

Mike Freeman, NFL National’s Lead Writer, explains it by saying that “If anything, Belichick is more obsessed. Wants to be the best more. Wants to outwork the next guy more. Outsmart, outwork, outlast. That's the Belichick way.”

But now there is an even more interesting theory being posited by many, including Mike Freeman, that lifts Belichick out of “legendary” and raises him up to, well, “paranormal” status—which is somewhere waaaay out there in the stratosphere.  This theory maintains the discovery of a new mental disease, caused by a resistant virus, which is becoming more and more prevalent in the NFL.  It is BDS, or Belichick Derangement Syndrome, and it afflicts only coaches and their staffs.  Belichick himself is the virus.  There is no known therapy to fight it, no medication that will relieve it, and no way to vaccinate against it.  There is no cure.

The "Virus,"and cause of BDS, himself
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Freeman describes it clinically as a psychological phenomenon that occurs when the other coaches in the league have to face Belichick in a game.  They know that he will probe every last atom of their mitochondrial DNA.  He will ferret out every weakness and plan to exploit it as he multiplies.  He will be tricky and virulent—and they begin to slowly go crazy.  The delirium of trying to outsmart, outwork, and outguess him disorients them.  It rises to a feverish pitch as they start to over-work and over-reach and over-plan and over-imagine.  The classic symptoms of BDS manifest clearly.

Meanwhile the “Big Deranger,” the Big Disease, just sits back and waits.  The coaching staff slowly unravels, and come game day, the syndrome is full-blown.  On occasion, it is true, there is a coach who shows a natural resistance and does not get sick.  But it seems that, more often than not, they succumb.

Really, you ask?  Isn’t this hyperbole and overkill?  Okay, okay, you say, Belichick is great, sure, but come on…

No, Freeman and the others would say, it is not exaggeration, and they will cite the most compelling example to date:  the already infamously worst play ever, the “Swinging-Gate Gate” fake punt the Colts and poor infected Chuck Pagano tried to pull off against Belichick's Patriots last Sunday.  Enough said.

Outsmart, outwork, outlast
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 Would you care to offer a second opinion, Doctors?

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