Today's Soundtrack: A song for Belichick
By Ben Collins, Globe correspondent
Today's Soundtrack is an occasional feature that attempts to sum up the events or mood of the day in song. Today's artists: Ray LaMontagne, Gnarls Barkley.
He was probably trying to outsmart a version of himself that was trying to outsmart that other version of himself. If that sounds too complicated to understand, it's because it is. That's probably the level of sophistication that was going through Bill Belichick's head last night.
But, in practice, Bill Belichick looked like someone rushing through the last two minutes of his game of Madden 2010 while his friend sat idle in a car in his driveway honking the horn, swearing and wondering why he's not ready to go out to a bar. It looked like he was a victim of one of those games where the sole objective was to finish it as fast as was humanly possible with a reckless disregard for the outcome.
Maybe I should rewind the tape.
I'm sure, if we look back on the DVR of our collective selective memory, Dream NBC will have cut to a shot of Bill Belichick extracting his Blackberry from his grey hoodie, rifling down his five unread text messages, and reading the last that says, "HURRY IT UP, BILL. Do u have n e idea what TIME it is?" Then we probably could have seen this coming.
This didn't happen. We know enough about Belichick to know that these decisions are actually calculated. We know enough about geniuses to know that they horrendously crazy things sometimes (Benjamin Franklin took airbaths!; Bill Murray does stuff like this!).
Belichick was probably just projecting that Colts coach Jim Caldwell would counter by trying to be equally crazy. He probably thought Caldwell would think it was a pooch punt and send someone back to snag it, leaving a receiver open.
Belichick expected his genius to be matched by Caldwell's attempt at genius. And he wound up looking stupid for doing it.
Does that make him crazy? Probably.
Soundtrack of the Day: Ray LaMontagne - Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)
(Gnarls Barkley - Crazy)
