WEEI Afternoons: Ted Johnson explains how Bill Belichick altered the 2004 AFC Championship Game

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00:00Let's see there's got the ball first. Okay. Yep. Okay, they they drive down to are probably 30 35 yard line

00:07Okay, and they are presented with a fourth and one situation. Yeah

00:12so

00:13It was a it was a close. It was close whether or not they had gotten the first down

00:18So they they had to bring out the chains measure and in that time

00:24Belichick calls me over which he rarely does in that situation unless it's a timeout, okay

00:30and he whispers something in my ear and I run back out and I tell my nose tackle to do a certain stunt and

00:37we start into what into their play, which was they ran what we call a

00:43Power Bob. Oh, you pull the backside guard

00:46And the fullback leads on the outside linebacker

00:51Bettis takes a jab step and then goes with the pulling guard

00:54We blew it up in the backfield Bettis gets hit in the backfield

00:57The ball gets fumbled Rabel falls on it first down and ten going the other way for the Patriots and then the route was on

01:04It was there was something so arrogant to me about them going for it in that situation

01:09Yeah, I'll never forget it was it would have been a long field goal, but they they they went for it

01:14They failed and and that's a it's a situation where a lot of people. Oh, you know build

01:19People a lot of people saw me go over it run together

01:21Yeah, and think that he saw the the signals or something. What did he see? He saw he he's he knew something

01:30Is that an Ernie?

01:31Here's the thing. He doesn't say to me Ted. Hey, this is the play that they're gonna run look for this play

01:38He just said I want you to stunt the nose. Give me a little Liz on the nose

01:42All right, so I go in there. I tell my nose tackle. I want to lose on the no

01:47Liz Rhonda

01:50Rip rip rip Liz rip Liz Roger Louie

01:54A very very simple terms, but and so everyone had to know that because it affects the backside

02:01Linebacker that way was brusque. I was the front side and

02:04That by by us ripping that nose tackle upfield at the snap of the ball. It blew that boy up