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It's one of those things where you don't know what you got till it's gone.
I'm not getting into a Brady vs BB conversation, but if you put Brady on the Lions, Jags or Jets, you actually think they are SB contenders? Same thing goes for if you put BB on those same teams, they are not contenders....football is the ultimate team sport.....you need talent to win. I think they both complimented each other well....both are perfectionists, hard working and hate to lose....I go back to our 2018 championship....Brady was invaluable in the AFC championship when he played incredible against the Chiefs....carried our defense....in the SB, BB was invaluable as he out coached McVay and the defense carried the offense....a team effort!!!!
No other coach gets 7 (Could've been 9) wins out of that team. They were reloading.
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I do think both win without the other, just not anywhere near as much.
Make sure to forward us Wolf’s scouting notes when he sends them to you so we know in advance who he’s going to force Bill to draft.
The team is absolutely going in the right direction. They matched up horribly with the Bills and were that problem away from being a legitimate SB contender.
Belichick has 6 Super Bowl rings with the GOAT QB so I would hope we're not leading off his bio with "impressively" winning 7 games with the corpse of Cam Newton.
NYJ had a couple seasons under Rex Ryan when the defenses were stout and the offenses would have been plenty good enough with Brady to at least make it to a Super Bowl. Similarly the Jags had a couple of seasons with great defenses and an elite quarterback away from contending for a Super Bowl. Also, I'm betting a couple of seasons with Brady and Calvin Johnson, Golden Tate and Reggie Bush would have been highly successful and entertaining. You plug Belichick into those situations with Sanchez, Bortles and Stafford, and I don't think they're improving much. Just my opinion.
I'm not putting them in the 'legitimate SB contender' category until I see what Mac Jones looks like next season. It's not just a Bills / Josh Allen problem either, the AFC is loaded with very good teams with very good or better quarterbacks.... Bills/Allen, Chiefs/Mahomes, Bengals/Burrow, Chargers/Herbert, Texans/Watson. All of those teams (except for the Texans who Watson may not be playing for anyway) have better supporting casts around their quarterbacks as well so Mac Jones needs to improve and his supporting cast needs to improve A LOT. I don't think it's a given that either or both of those things are going to happen.
They were this year, save the mismatch with the Bills.
The Patriots were 3-8 against teams with a winning record; they were 7-0 against teams with a losing record. They weren't competitive at all with Buffalo unless you're counting games played in a windstorm. The two losses to Miami & Tua really crippled their chances of going anywhere in the postseason because you could see that beatdown in Buffalo coming. They win either one of those games to Miami and their path would have been less difficult, at Cincinnati, at Tennessee. Doubtful they were ever getting past Buffalo or KC though.
That team last year had minimal talent all across the board and throw in Cam who was horrible and the fact that we won 7 games is an amazing accomplishment.
If they drew Cincinnati’s seed they were in the AFCCG
They also exited the bye week playing bad uninspired football, which was the result of complacency and bad execution a lot more than a lack of talent... something Judon and other players have echoed since.
