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ATLANTA – Unconventional aggressiveness.

Bill Belichick’s approach to coaching football is drenched in it. Throughout his career, in job after job, year after year. And in every facet of football, too.

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It’s one undeniable reason Belichick has won more Super Bowls as an assistant and head coach combined (seven), and more as a head coach alone (five), than any others in his profession. Indeed, Belichick is regarded now as perhaps the greatest pro coach in football history, period.

But where did he learn his unorthodox approaches?

So much has been written about the tight relationship he had with his late father Steve Belichick – a long-time Navy assistant coach and scouting legend – that most people point to him as Belichick’s greatest single football influence. Certainly, there’s ample truth to that.

Others might point to Bill Parcells, Belichick’s long-time NFL coaching mentor, when Belichick served as everything from general defensive assistant, to linebackers coach, to special-teams coordinator to defensive coordinator under Parcells on the New York Giants from 1979 to 1990, then again on the Patriots in 1996, and continuing with the New York Jets from 1997-99.