You know, you can disagree with me... But you will never convince me I'm wrong. Why you might ask... Well I will tell you... So sit back and relax and learn why
Your fatal mistake is allowing the argument of one or the other to take hold... it's a logical fallacy from the start, because simply put Football is a team sport... Players come and go. Coaches come and go... Once in a while you get a group of players and coaches that are special,which is what we experienced for 20 years... It's a balancing act of relationships over an extended period... The players play, but it's the coaches who do the dance trying to keep everything running smoothly... Both play off of each other.
No matter how good a coach is, no matter how good a player is, they cannot do it alone... This circles back to concept of "team sport"... 53 guys... Brady and his teammates played their hearts out ... Driven to achieve... And all the while belichick worked to keep things pointed in the same direction...Take one of the two out and the team is no longer balanced... They don't have the level of success apart that they had together... It was never been done before... and while it is being challenged now by the chiefs, its a rare feat that does not happen on the regular... Dynastys rise, they fall, rarely do they maintain a level of excellence over a two decade span...
That you complain about roster management underlines just how important a coach is to a franchise... As important as a player? No, especially a star player... But without the vision and preparation that a coach provides, what do you have but a collection of guys wearing the same jersey...
Did Belichick make mistakes? Sure did. Let guys leave that he should have kept? Yup, no doubt. Screw up some coaching hires? Indeed. But he also found guys that fell thru the cracks, developed them, turned them into players ... Developed guys who became pretty good coaches while here, who knew how to use the players strengths and weaknesses to the teams best advantage... he stood there thru the good and bad, praising his players when they did well, took the blame when it didn't... when **** hit the fan, he was the one who took the scorn and abuse, as much he could... whats that worth? the guy we have now is 6 weeks in and has already thrown the players under the bus... Did Bill lose his fastball at the end? Yeah, but the guy was 70...
While you blame Belichick for the mistakes he made, you never bring up the players mistakes... The guys who dog it... The guys who weren't professional in their profession... N'keal Harry is a great example of this... What's your first thought? Draft bust...Bill made a bad pick... Fine, but where is the accountability of the player to practice hard, to play even harder in the games? Funny, we never hear the latter, only the former when it's brought up... Maybe if he worked harder, things would have turned out differently? But such is the state of football today - players get all the credit for winning, coaches get all the blame for losing...
You can have the greatest collection of players on one roster... But unless someone is there to guide them, they won't win squat because teams are more than their component parts... the coach builds the team... he brings them together, and that's the value of a coach... its why coaches are more than just a replaceable cog in the machine... Belichick and Brady clicked... To steal from Sebastian Junger, together they were the Perfect Storm... Tom doesn't have 7 rings without Belichick. Bill doesn't have 6 rings without Brady.
Tldr: piss off... If I'm going to take the time to write it, you can spend two minutes reading it
