The Wolf Report has discovered that the New England Patriots’ plan this season has been to win each game by scoring more points than the opposition. Under close questioning by The Wolf Report, Patriots coach Bill Bilichick has now confirmed the strategy. “I think most teams have figured out that what we’re doing by now,” said Belichick, “so I don’t think I have to keep it a secret.”
Belichick developed the strategy last season after analyzing the Patriots’ playoff loss to the Indianapolis Colts. “I kept asking myself: ‘How did we lose this one?’” Said Belichick. “We’d racked up so many yards, scored so many points, everything. So I went back and studied the game films and I got an idea. Then I looked at every game that we’d played since I got to the Patriots. In retrospect the pattern was clear: whenever we scored more points than the opposing team, we won the game. Whenever we didn’t, we lost. If you check the playoff films you’ll see that as well as we did, Indy scored more points, and that’s how they beat us.”
At the start of the season Belichick gathered his coaching staff and to try to get them to buy into his strategy. “At first, we were like, no way!” Said Dean Pees, Patriots Defensive Coordinator. “But Bill pulled out all the data he’d collected and showed us that winning had nothing to do with the number of times we blitzed, or sacks, or yards allowed, or even points allowed. It was simply a matter of who scores the most points.”
“That’s been pretty much the plan for season,” confirmed Tom Brady, the Patriots’ quarterback. “Coach told us: score more points than they do, and we’ll win. A couple of times when we were behind Coach said: “Score another touchdown and we’ll win.’ And I did, because I trust Coach. So far, he’s been right every time.”
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