Belichick walking off with time on the clock

[mheisig]

One second left or not, it's damn poor leadership to leave your team out there. It has nothing to do with relevance or practicality. It's in no way surprising, I would hardly expect better from the most classless coach in the league.

For all the talk of "it's a 60 minute game," the coach, the ultimate leader of the team, not only came up short in the loss, but he left his guys at 59:59. I don't care if it was a mere formality to end the game, no good leader walks off and leaves 11 of his defenders to finish it out.

A good leader is the first in and the last out, at least if he wants to maintain any sense of respect. If I were Belichick's players, I'd be royally pissed right now.