In honor of New England Patriots' head coach Bill Belichick's 20th season coaching the team, 98.5 The Sports Hub Patriots Radio Network will be counting down his 20 most significant wins on Patriots Preview. You can listen to those on-demand right here each week.
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For this special playoff installment of Belichick 20/20, we rewind to the 2003 AFC Divisional Game between the New England Patriots and Tennessee Titans; one of the coldest games in NFL history. Tom Brady and Bethel Johnson would connect on a 41-yard deep ball for a touchdown giving the Patriots an early lead over the MVP led Steve McNair. But, McN…
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For the final installment of Belichick 20/20 and one more Super Bowl to look back on, this week we revisit Bill Belichick’s greatest game; Super Bowl 36. The “Cinderella story” 11-5 Patriots were squaring off against the 14-2 “Greatest Show on Turf” St. Louis Rams. The Rams were a 14-point favorite coming in to Super Bowl Sunday; the Patriots were …
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This week’s edition of Belichick 20/20 features one of the greatest games ever played: Super Bowl 51. Both high scoring offenses would be held scoreless in the first quarter, but Atlanta would dominate the second quarter outscoring the Patriots 21-3; Falcons’ corner back, Robert Alford would intercept Tom Brady for an 82-yard pick six. The Patriots…
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With three more weeks left of Belichick 20/20, we revisit the game that started the second chapter of the Patriots' dynasty under Bill Belichick; Super Bowl 49. Super Bowl 49 was a match up of two 12-4 number one seed teams as the Patriots would be going up against the Seattle Seahawks and the famed Legion of Boom. The Seahawks were returning to th…
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With four weeks left of Belichick 20/20 and four more Super Bowl victories to visit, we rewind to February 1st, 2004. The 14-2 Patriots were squaring off against the 11-5 Carolina Panthers. The Panthers, two years removed from a 1-15 season, entered the playoffs as a Wild-Card team and after beating Dallas, St. Louis in double overtime, and Philade…
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Another week, another Super Bowl victory for this edition of Belichick 20/20. This week, we rewind to Super Bowl 39 where the New England Patriots faced off against the Philadelphia Eagles. The 13-3 NFC Champions Andy Reid led Eagles were headlined by; Donovan McNabb, Brian Westbrook, Terrell Owens and Brian Dawkins. Super Bowl 39 was a heavy-weigh…
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For this edition of Belichick 20/20 we rewind to February of this year for a Super Bowl 53 match up against the Los Angeles Rams. Super Bowl 53 was the lowest scoring Super Bowl ever; Belichick's Patriots were able to neutralize the youthful Sean McVay's Los Angeles Ram's offense in a 13-3 victory. The Patriots were able to hold Todd Gurley, Brandi…
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For this installment of Belichick 20/20 we revisit the infamous 2001 "Tuck Rule" game. Belichick's 12-4 Patriots, led by a 25 year-old sixth round draft pick named Tom Brady would square off against Jon Gruden's 11-5 Oakland Raiders. The snowfall would halt both offenses as the Patriots would trail the Raiders 7-0 at halftime with a combined 238 to…
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We do not have to rewind that far for this installment of Belichick 20/20. Staying in 2019, we look back at the AFC Championship game where Belichick and Brady took on the 2018 NFL MVP, Patrick Mahomes and company. The Patriots were looking to win an AFC Championship game on the road for the first time since 2005, and it was certainly looking that …
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For this installment of Belichick 20/20, we recall another close game during week 13 of the 2009 season between the once rivals Indianapolis Colts and the New England Patriots. Both teams came into this game sitting at 9-2 with massive playoff implications on the line. With the Patriots leading 38-34 late in the fourth quarter, the Patriots' defens…
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For this installment of Belichick 20/20 we rewind to a week nine match up in 2003 against the Denver Broncos. With 3:06 left in the game, the Patriots trailed 24-23 and the Broncos had Brady and the Patriots' offense pinned on their own one yard line. What came next can be described as peak Bill Belichick. On fourth down, Belichick decided to take …
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For this installment of Belichick 20/20 we rewind to a January in San Diego where the 12-4 Patriots squared up against the 14-2 San Diego Chargers. The Patriots trailed 14-13 going in to the fourth quarter. Marlon McCree would intercept Tom Brady in the fourth quarter but Troy Brown would force him to fumble on the interception return which would s…
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For this installment of Belichick 20/20 we visit another classic Brady vs. Manning match up. Belichick and the Patriots fell behind 24-0 at the end of the first half to a Broncos team who forced a turnover on each of the Patriots first three drives. Tom Brady would only throw for 81 yards in the first half; Manning only had 61 passing yards but Kno…
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For this installment of Belichick 20/20 we rewind to the 2014 AFC Divisional Game against the Baltimore Ravens and the New England Patriots. The Patriots came back from a 14-point deficit twice in this match up; including a 51 yard touchdown pass from Julian Edelman to Danny Amendola. Tom Brady and Brandon LaFell would connect on a 23 yard touchdow…
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For this installment of Belichick 20/20 we go all the way back to a 2001 week five match up against, at the time, the San Diego Chargers. Tom Brady would go on to throw his first career touchdown pass to Terry Glenn in this game as well as lead the Patriots to a game-tying drive in the final minute of regulation, where Brady would connect with Jerm…
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For this installment of Belichick 20/20 we bring you another classic playoff match up between the Patriots and the Colts. This time, we recall a snowy 2004 AFC Divisional Game in which Belichick and company held Tony Dungy and Peyton Manning's Colts to only thee points. Manning was coming off a year where he threw for 49 touchdowns, at the time pas…
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With the Patriots raising their sixth banner to start the 2019 year against the Steelers, we rewind to 2001 where the Patriots and the Steelers faced off in the AFC Championship Game. Drew Bledsoe, filling in for the injured Tom Brady, and David Patten connected for the Patriots only offensive touchdown of the game as they were able to defeat the S…
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For this installment of Belichick 20/20 we flashback to a classic match up between Peyton Manning's Indianapolis Colts and the New England Patriots. Ty Law was the standout performer of the game leading the way with three interceptions and wide receiver David Givens scored the lonely touchdown for the Patriots as they were able to top the Colts 24-…
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For this installment of Belichick 20/20 we rewind to week 17 of 2007 when the Patriots defeated the New York Giants to secure a perfect regular season record. This game also featured Tom Brady breaking the single season passing touchdown record and Randy Moss breaking the single season touchdown receptions record.…
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For this installment of Belichick 20/20 we remember a week 11 match up between the New England Patriots and the New Orleans Saints where the Patriots top the Saints in wake of Belichick's fathers death.Di Bill Belichick 20/20
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In a week three Thursday night match up against the Houston Texans we deem the "Jacoby Brissett Game" as Bill Belichick's 20th best win with the New England Patriots. Brissett, filling in for the injured Jimmy Garoppolo and suspended Tom Brady beat the Texans by a score of 27-0 where Brissett tallied 151 total yards with 48 of them being on the gro…
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