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A clumsy attempt to quantify Quarterback Tom Brady's domination in the history of American football is no longer needed in the wake of tonight's drubbing of the now Brady-less New England Patriots at the hands of the Buffalo Bills.
Brady's record against the Buffalo Bills is 33 wins out of 36 games. Including tonight's playoff defeat the Brady-less Patriots lost to the Bills twice this year.
It's not just that Brady went out and in the very first year out from under Belichick's, either wing or shadow (2020), won the championship with another coach, it's that the next year (2021 season), Belichick had 'loaded up' on numerous 'big ticket' 'studs' in 'free agency'. And then he got pummeled in the first round of the playoffs, by the Bills.
2021 was Belichick's rebuttal to Brady's otherwise convincing claim to be the rightful owner of those nine championship appearances and six Lombardi trophies that NE earned from 2001 to 2019, during which period Brady quarterbacked every season except 2008, when he was injured for the whole year.
So out of 18 seasons, Brady quarterbacked the team to nine championship game appearances, which is a 50% rate. Unheard of. He won with the team six of those championships, a .667 winning percentage in the championship games!
And in 2020 he won the championship again, and this time with a new coach and team. If there were any other outcome to the 2020 season (besides the Patriots, rather than the Bucs, winning the championship) then we're still having the conversation about whether the Patriots' 'dynasty' was more due to Brady or to Belichick, but with him and Tampa winning immediately, we have to take seriously that it was basically 'all' Brady.
2021, Belichick loosened 'the purse strings' and spent aggressively 'on both sides of the ball.'
Then he got booted from the first round of the playoffs in a drubbing by the Bills.
So it doesn't matter if Brady's Bucs lose to Philly 47-17 tomorrow. The solution is in. In the discussion of whether Brady or Belichick is more responsible for the New England dynasty from 2001 to 2019, it's Brady, and it's a blowout. It means that those six 'Lombardi's' belong to Brady (not Belichick). It means that Belichick, while a reliable and stable, competent coach, isn't a singular 'genius' or anything like that. It means that he was fortunate to have Tom Brady as his team's quarterback for so long.
I don't mean to be mean to the guy, as Pittsburgh fans know, there's a certain advantage to having the same coaching regime every season, and Bill Belichick has been the head coach here for over 20 years now, and there's nothing wrong with that and everything right with it, especially when the team competed by getting into the playoffs and by being competitive in the playoffs, most seasons. Just like in Pittsburgh. Usually they field a competitive team.
But now we New Englanders have two straight seasons of basically noncompetitive teams (with regard to competing for the championship). We never saw that with Brady here. He 'only' got them to the championship game 50% of the time, but he always got us into the playoffs except for 2002, and his playoff record in NE was 30 wins in 41 games, almost 0.750 winning percentage. This team is definitely different now, with Brady gone.
And on the other side of his departure, Tampa Bay is also definitely different now, with Brady.
It's Brady 'in a landslide'. It's official now.
Brady's record against the Buffalo Bills is 33 wins out of 36 games. Including tonight's playoff defeat the Brady-less Patriots lost to the Bills twice this year.
It's not just that Brady went out and in the very first year out from under Belichick's, either wing or shadow (2020), won the championship with another coach, it's that the next year (2021 season), Belichick had 'loaded up' on numerous 'big ticket' 'studs' in 'free agency'. And then he got pummeled in the first round of the playoffs, by the Bills.
2021 was Belichick's rebuttal to Brady's otherwise convincing claim to be the rightful owner of those nine championship appearances and six Lombardi trophies that NE earned from 2001 to 2019, during which period Brady quarterbacked every season except 2008, when he was injured for the whole year.
So out of 18 seasons, Brady quarterbacked the team to nine championship game appearances, which is a 50% rate. Unheard of. He won with the team six of those championships, a .667 winning percentage in the championship games!
And in 2020 he won the championship again, and this time with a new coach and team. If there were any other outcome to the 2020 season (besides the Patriots, rather than the Bucs, winning the championship) then we're still having the conversation about whether the Patriots' 'dynasty' was more due to Brady or to Belichick, but with him and Tampa winning immediately, we have to take seriously that it was basically 'all' Brady.
2021, Belichick loosened 'the purse strings' and spent aggressively 'on both sides of the ball.'
Then he got booted from the first round of the playoffs in a drubbing by the Bills.
So it doesn't matter if Brady's Bucs lose to Philly 47-17 tomorrow. The solution is in. In the discussion of whether Brady or Belichick is more responsible for the New England dynasty from 2001 to 2019, it's Brady, and it's a blowout. It means that those six 'Lombardi's' belong to Brady (not Belichick). It means that Belichick, while a reliable and stable, competent coach, isn't a singular 'genius' or anything like that. It means that he was fortunate to have Tom Brady as his team's quarterback for so long.
I don't mean to be mean to the guy, as Pittsburgh fans know, there's a certain advantage to having the same coaching regime every season, and Bill Belichick has been the head coach here for over 20 years now, and there's nothing wrong with that and everything right with it, especially when the team competed by getting into the playoffs and by being competitive in the playoffs, most seasons. Just like in Pittsburgh. Usually they field a competitive team.
But now we New Englanders have two straight seasons of basically noncompetitive teams (with regard to competing for the championship). We never saw that with Brady here. He 'only' got them to the championship game 50% of the time, but he always got us into the playoffs except for 2002, and his playoff record in NE was 30 wins in 41 games, almost 0.750 winning percentage. This team is definitely different now, with Brady gone.
And on the other side of his departure, Tampa Bay is also definitely different now, with Brady.
It's Brady 'in a landslide'. It's official now.
