New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is making sure his team’s upcoming opponent has nothing to post on the cork board, at least not from the coach. In an interview Monday with The Boston Globe, Belichick tells the newspaper, “I don’t think there’s any better team in football than the New Orleans Saints.” The Saints and the Patriots square off Nov. 30 for a highly anticipated Monday Night Football game.
Widely considered a genius among his peers for his masterful game-planning against opposing quarterbacks, Belichick tells The Globe he’s most impressed by the Saints balance: “They have no weaknesses that I can see,” he says.
Aside from fighting to shore up their lock on the AFC East, the Patriots have another reason to play lights out in the Superdome Monday: to knock off one of the league’s two remaining unbeaten teams. They had their first chance Nov. 15 against the 9-0 Indianapolis Colts, falling in a 35-34 heartbreaker that turned on a much-talked-about and criticized (until Les Miles’ clock management Saturday in Oxford, Miss.) Patriots 4th-and-2 call at the end of the game.The Pats are the only team to record a perfect regular season since the NFL went to a 16-game regular season, pulling it off in 2007 (and losing to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl), and they no doubt would like to protect that legacy. The Saints brought NFC South division rival Tampa Bay Buccaneers to the wood shed on Sunday, administering a 38-7 spanking. The Colts, meanwhile, remained undefeated with a 17-15 nail biter Sunday over the Baltimore Ravens.
Praising the Saints' opportunistic defense, which has a league-best 29 take-aways (nine returned for touchdowns), Belichick served up a characteristic deadpan answer for how to beat the Saints: “Try not to let them score when we have the ball.” (emphasis ours)
David Calhoun and Elizabeth “EB” Brooks are the first two employees of Lafayette Central Park Inc., the nonprofit charged with turning Lafayette Consolidated Government’s 100-acre Johnston Street Horse Farm property into a passive public park. Calhoun was named executive director, and Brooks is director of planning and design.
At Thursday's State of the Economy luncheon, LEDA President and CEO Gregg Gothreaux said PXP has already quietly hired 180 people for its Broussard expansion.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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