Next season New England will aim to become the first team to win three consecutive Super Bowls and the first to win four world championships in five seasons. Coach Bill Bellichick however will first need to find replacements for offensive coordinator Charlie Weis who is now the new head coach at Notre Dame while defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel has been appointed head coach of the Cleveland Browns.
Weiss and Crennel are certainly big shoes to fill having both worked alongside Bellichick at New York Giants who were coached by Bill Parcells. That Giants team was the one that stopped the San Francisco 49ers becoming the first team to record three consecutive Super Bowl victories after a Matt Bahr field goal eliminating them in the NFC championship game.
Adam Vinatieri has kicked his share of field goals for the Patriots and now Bellichick will lead the patriots into season 2005 shooting for a record setting third consecutive Super Bowl. It’s funny how history pans out with what stopped the 49ers now putting the Patriots on the cusp of sporting immortality.
After winning the 2003 Super Bowl against Carolina, Bellichick said, “I think, as far as the future goes, my plan would be the same as it was this year: Take it one day at a time, one week at a time. The only thing we can do anything about right now is have a good off season program, make good decisions as far as building our team for next year, and building for some things we know are going to be occurring, like training camp, but it's all a process, it's day-by-day. You can't do any more than prepare for your next event, the next day, the next practice, the next meeting, whatever it is. And if you do all those things, then somehow things might have a chance to take care of themselves. That's the way we'll approach it.”
And that’s exactly what happened in the NFL season of 2004.
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