War Room

The Legacy of Bill Belichick and the Art of Building the Perfect Team

By: Michael Holley

Narrated by: Mirron Willis

Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins

Publisher's summary

Bill Belichick is one of the titans of today's game of football. Now, sports commentator and best-selling author Michael Holley follows three NFL teams - the New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs, and Atlanta Falcons - from training camp 2010 through the Super Bowl and into the April draft, opening a new window into Belichick's influence on the game.

This one-of-a-kind exploration takes football fans behind the scenes of the most popular sport in America, with unprecedented insider access to the head coaches, scouts, trainers, and players who make the game what it is - including new insights from Bill Parcells, Todd and Dick Haley, and Belichick himself.

For true fans of the game, and for fans of Badasses, Patriot Reign, and Boys Will Be Boys, Holley's War Room is not to be missed.

©2011 Michael Holley (P)2017 Tantor

Narrator choice - HUH?

Would you say that listening to this book was time well-spent? Why or why not?

This is a story done wrong by whomever chose the narrator. The narrator's voice is that of someone reading by a fireplace as a professor at Oxford. He doesn't know how to pronounce very famous players' names. He pronounces routes roots. Come on man. The guy has no clue about what he is reading. Find someone with excitement and anticipation of the game stories and has some intensity to his voice. It takes the book story down a few notches because the reader/listener is constantly distracted by the narrator's lack of background in the NFL, the Patriots and football itself.

Booooooooo! What were you thinking?

Would you be willing to try another book from Michael Holley? Why or why not?

Probably. But, dude, know your listener and match the narrator with the storyline.

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Mirron Willis?

Me. I could have done this in my sleep and kept the listeners on the edge of their seats.

Did War Room inspire you to do anything?

Study the game as much as I can. I am a coach.

Any additional comments?

Be a marketeer. Do homework and get someone to tell the Belichick story with determined excitement and masculinity that matches the characters in the story.

Insightful Read

This book is great for any football fan. I as a Green Bay Packer fan I’m not a New England Patriots junkie but the insights gained from in this outstanding organization presented in this book make it worth reading.

great content, hard to listen to the vocals

not to be mean but, great content, hard to listen to the vocals. sorry Mike Holly

A lot of good details, but a bit disappointing

For obvious reasons, there was less focus on the Patriots and Belichick than the title would have one expect. It was still very interesting though.

The narrator was a total disaster. The weird tone was acceptable, I suppose, but the mispronounced names were awful. The narrator couldn't even decide on a pronunciation of some names within the same paragraph. NFL teams include pronunciation guides in their annual media guides; would it have been too difficult to consult those? If so, would it have been too difficult to stick to one pronunciation? Even if it's wrong, that would have been less disorienting.

Another great Michael holly book

Another great Michael holly book
Highly recommend pls read book
And other books he wrote

Good book, narration less so

I liked the book but thought the narrator sounded robotic at times and mispronounced names in the book.

Narrator could be better.

Good content, narrator sounds robotic and pronounces eh. vree. sing. ul. sil. ah. bul. There's no flow.

War Room

The art of the War Room is in demonstrating how discipline, adherence to standards, and being able to focus a large group on a single goal is done with the best of intention, and winning is not the only benefits. This group becomes family and the family grows over time. Yes, it is about management and football but more importantly, the War Room is a story of the social benefits of creating something amazing!

Poor narration

The content of the book is good, but is completely undermined by the poor narration. The Narrator mispronounced several names in the book multiple times, does not understand basic football concepts and misreads basic lines containing every day information.

worst narrator I have ever heard in my life!

this was the worst narrator I've ever heard in my life. He mispronounced very popular names sounded like a robot most of the time and was extremely boring! I will never ever ever get a book read by him again. I was disappointed in the overall story as well. Probably my misconception of what it was supposed to be about. Thought it was going to be more about Belichick and it wasn't. Overall I did learn a number of things as I grinded through the terrible narration to try to get some content out of it.