Brady made less and Bill still didn’t max out signings. Many asked why he wasn’t spending more for years.
Pats improved last year with a rookie QB. They lose the first game of his second season and now the greatest coach and a tremendous GM should get fired? Guy at the top of 6 Super Bowls only had success because of Brady making less money?
Garbage takes.
He has been the head coach of 9 full seasons that didn't have Brady play more than 1 game, only 3 were above .500 with a 1-2 record in the playoffs. With Brady, his worst regular season was 10-6, twice, he was 11-5 twice (they were 11-3 with Brady one of them), every other season they won at least 12 games. It isn't exactly crazy to wonder how good Bill actually is without Brady. And then of course Brady goes to 7-9 team that hadn't been in the playoffs in over a decade and immediately wins 11 games and leads them to the championship and then followed that up with a 13 win season and another playoff victory. The evidence is really starting to mount up that Brady, not Bill, was the main driver of the success of the Patriots.
Ouch. Got you pretty good there Smart. Any rebuttle to those facts?
Rebuttal- you guys must have missed the last 20 years. Belichick found countless gems in the late rounds and coached them up to outperform expectations. He coached Brady up and let him succeed early with a great defense. Brady’s stats weren’t great for a couple years, yet they had 3 SBs in their pocket. The last Rams SB was a great job by Belichick. Other teams would be lucky to have Bill, yet some want him gone? Who else has done what Bill has?
who else has had Brady?
The answer is the combination of Brady and Belichick led to 6 Super Bowls and countless AFC championships. I don’t know why you’re trying to say that it was just Brady, or a majority of Brady’s doing. The 2 Rams wins were defensive victories. Your take doesn’t make sense.
We've seen Bill with other QB's and it isn't generally pretty, including some quality QB's like Bledsoe, Kosar, and Testaverde. And I never said the Patriots didn't have a solid defense or that Bill was a bad coach, he is an excellent defensive coach, I just think he is a bad GM. And to be clear that second Rams victory, the Patriots had over 400 yards of offense and won the 2 games in the AFC by scores of 41-28 and 37-31. The conference championship they gave up 24 points in the 4th quarter and only won the game by winning the coin toss and having Brady march all the way down the field for a TD keeping Mahomes off the field.
Without Brady, I don't think New England wins a single Super Bowl. I've seen nothing from Bill in every season he has had without Brady, that would lead me to the conclusion that he would have won a single one as head coach. Conversely, while the Patriots might not have 6 without Bill, they certainly would have won at least a couple with a different head coach and Brady. And I think we all know this since Brady has won a Super Bowl, at the tail end of his career, without Bill.