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  • The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time
  • Written by: Ian O'Connor
  • Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
  • Length: 21 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (23 ratings)

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Belichick

Written by: Ian O'Connor
Narrated by: Brian Hutchison
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From a New York Times best-selling author, the definitive biography of the NFL’s most enigmatic, controversial, and yet successful coach, Bill Belichick.

Bill Belichick is perhaps the most fascinating figure in the NFL - the infamously dour face of one of the winningest franchises in sports. As head coach of the New England Patriots, he’s led the team to five Super Bowl championship trophies. In this revelatory new and robust biography, listeners will come to understand and see Belichick’s full life in football, from watching Naval Academy games as a kid with his player-scout father, to masterminding two Super Bowl-winning game plans as defensive coordinator for the Giants, and to his dramatic leap to the Patriots, where he has made history.

Veteran sports writer and award-winning author Ian O’Connor delves into the mind of the man who has earned a place among coaching legends like Lombardi, Halas, and Paul Brown, presenting sides of Belichick that have previously been unexplored. O’Connor discovers how this legendary coach shaped the people he met and worked with in ways perhaps even Belichick himself doesn’t know.

Those who follow and love pro football know Bill Belichick only as the hooded genius of the Patriots, a team shrouded in victory and controversy. But there is so much more - from the hidden tensions and deep layers to his relationship with Tom Brady, to his sometimes frosty dealings with owner Robert Kraft, and to the surprising camaraderie he shares with the team. This is a man who has many facets and, ultimately, has created a notorious football dynasty.

Based on exhaustive research and countless interviews, this audiobook circles around Belichick to tell his full story for the first time and presents an incisive portrait of a mastermind at work.

©2018 Ian O'Connor (P)2018 Recorded Books

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A Good Read

Fairly interesting story about an otherwise unknown man. The word exhaustive is used in a few reviews here, and I think that’s a perfect double-edged adjective to use in describing this book. There are moments of clear insight here that rival the Tiger Woods biography from earlier this year in their penetrating revelations of the fragile egos behind these two great champions, but there’s also a lot of stuff here that’s got an obligatory feel to it, with little fresh study of the championships and the other hallowed and/or infamous moments of which even the casual football fan is well aware. Maybe not the final word on this subject, but certainly a key moment in the study of this iconic figure.

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Tedious 21HR+ Listen

The story of Coach Belichick is a remarkable one to tell. Ian O'Conner though labors at times and too often wanders away from the key events/influences that contributed to the making of the greatest NFL coach of our time. Do we really have to relive the thug Hernandez saga for example in understanding coach. Absolutely not IMO. There are some good points of course in 21 hours of content but listening to Lombardi's "Gridiron Genius" or Halberstam's "The Education of a Coach" will deliver twice the insider knowledge in half the time. They are great works on Bill. Sorry Ian O'Connor but your book is more like the boring history or research professor some of us may have endured in days gone by.

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