Here's a better question. Let's say Brady was taken by another team in 2000 and Belichick was left with Bledsoe for another season. Does Bill turn it around, or does another 8-8 or 7-9 season coming off a 5-11 year see him get fired? Or does Kraft even let Belichick sit Bledsoe before it reached that point? He really didn't have a choice when Brady went on that run, so the decision was more or less made for him. If Bledsoe is just here without someone like Brady, would Kraft be willing to make that decision and let Belichick trade/cut him? It's something I've wondered at times...but winning it all made it an easy decision and took the pressure off of Kraft from that standpoint.
Next question, I wonder which quarterback they would have potentially taken and judging by how well they've developed them here, I wonder what type of team this would have been. Dominant? Hard to say, but I wonder if they're still the same perennial contender they've been and a pesky one in the postseason. I'm at work so I don't have the ability to look at who came out of the draft from 2001-2003 (if Kraft gave him 2-3 more years to turn things around). But it's sort of a more interesting discussion if we want to turn this thread in that direction.
