Belichick: Teams can control the game without controlling the score
Bill Belichick · Bill Belichick: 8x Super Bowl Champion on Winning, Leadership, and Discipline · May 27, 2025 · at 1:09:05
Former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick discusses the mental separation between game execution and the scoreboard during Super Bowl LI.
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“Sometimes you play a game, and you feel like you have control of the game, but you don't have control of the score. And that was that game. I felt like we had pretty good control of the game, but we didn't have control of the score at all. There are other games where you have control of the score, and you don't have control of the game. You know, maybe you're ahead by 10 points, but, you know, they fumbled, they threw an interception, you got a lucky break, and you're ahead, but you really haven't been able to move the ball, you really haven't been able to stop them. They've just fumbled it away a couple times, and you kind of maybe got a lucky play to, you know, get your points. And so you feel like you don't have control of the game, but you're ahead on the scoreboard. And what you really want, of course, is to have control of the game and control of the score.”
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