{"id":151364,"date":"2025-06-23T03:04:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/151364\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T03:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:04:18","slug":"ex-patriots-super-bowl-champ-reveals-biggest-bill-belichick-lesson-hes-bringing-to-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/151364\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Patriots Super Bowl champ reveals biggest Bill Belichick lesson he\u2019s bringing to Commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

The post Ex-Patriots Super Bowl champ reveals biggest Bill Belichick lesson he\u2019s bringing to Commanders<\/a> appeared first on ClutchPoints<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the Washington Commanders<\/a> coming out of minicamp, ready to make a splash this upcoming season after being one game away from a Super Bowl berth, an underrated acquisition was defensive end Deatrich Wise Jr., a former New England Patriot. While the Commanders are hoping for breakouts in the 2025 season<\/a>, the team is also looking for Wise to bring some veteran presence to a younger team, bringing knowledge from playing under legendary head coach Bill Belichick<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Wise would be on \u201cThe John Keim Report,\u201d where he would be asked about what he learned under Belichick, and as the 30-year-old player explained the \u201cwisdom\u201d<\/a> received, he would see similarities in Washington\u2019s head coach, Dan Quinn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the wisdom that I have accumulated over those years, it has been those things that I keep saying,\u201d Wise said. \u201cBut also one of the things Bill [Belichick] always said was \u2018practice execution becomes game reality.\u2019 That\u2019s one thing I\u2019ve always taken to heart. Practice as hard as I can and exactly how I want the game to be. That\u2019s what makes great teams great.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I feel like that\u2019s the first two things I heard being talked about when I got to the Commanders by Coach [Joe] Whitt [Jr.] [defensive coordinator, and also by Coach DQ [Quinn],\u201d Wise continued. \u201cThey both was like, \u2018We have to be able to practice the same way we want to have happen in the game.\u2019 So I was like saying the same thing. So they\u2019re echoing success every single day that we\u2019re in that building.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As the Commander\u2019s veteran looks to produce for the team<\/a> and bring them to the next level, there is no doubt that Wise has experienced major success with New England. Playing with the Patriots since 2017, where he was a fourth-round pick, he was a part of the 2018 Super Bowl-winning team, though the time post-Tom Brady was not up to the standard.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo to sit here and talk about what went wrong, what didn\u2019t happen over the last eight years, we\u2019ll be here for three hours,\u201d Wise said on the Patriots\u2019 recent struggles. \u201cIn a nutshell, it\u2019s a number of things that went right and went really wrong for both teams in each game that led us to the record that we had after 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, the lessons learned by Belichick are superbly valuable.<\/p>\n

\u201cTechniques, fundamentals, the bigger the moment, the more you rely on techniques and fundamentals, being able to stop the run, gather the pass rusher as a defender, building tough, smart, and dependable players,\u201d Wise said about what he learned from Belichick.<\/p>\n

At any rate, Washington looks to further improve after finishing with a 12-5 record, finishing second in the NFC East before being eliminated in the conference title by the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n

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