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Brady is more responsible for the dynasties. BB is the GOAT HC, but every HC needs a good quarterback to compete. GOAT HCs win multiple championships with all-time great QBs. Then you have guys like Shula who, while an all-time great, had one of the best QBs of all time and won nothing with him. Shula, therefore, should not be in the GOAT convo. I couldn’t care less about the undefeated season or the back to back titles in 72 and 73. He had Marino for 17 seasons, and won nothing. That people are trying to diminish BB as a HC is embarrassing. Now, diminishing him as a GM? ****in’ A. One has every right to do that.
BB as a coach and GM puts him in really unique category. Evaluating players, considering how to use them in specific schemes, calculating their market and draft comp value based on economics, and then using them on Sundays is unique.
I don’t think you can really separate BB as a coach and GM...both roles are unified since he has full control over every aspect of the team. And I think this is why personnel guys and coaches have had limited success elsewhere, or at least not even close to the success of BB. Some GMs understand value well (Newsome); some coaches have mastered Xs and Os (Reid), but I can’t think of any who can see all of it at once.
My only criticism of BB is that it’s time to do what he did so often for the first fifteen years in NE and adapt. The league no longer requires teams to outthink opponents like in 2001, the offense can’t be so complex that no college receiver can come into in it, and it seems that loyalties or familiarity with guys like McDaniels, Caserio, etc. have caused him to sort of stay in neutral.
Bill clearly needs some new influences when an offensive coordinator who has been there for 20 years cannot find out single free agent or draft pick that fits at WR or TE. And in terms of Caserio, I kind of backed off saying he should be fired two years ago and now wish I’d petitioned the team. The guy clearly cannot evaluate talent, and it’s well beyond a statistical aberration. The 2018 Super Bowl team was mainly built from 2010-14...it’s been over five years of head scratching personnel moves that’s caught up to them. The down season here doesn’t concern me; the ongoing personnel failures, which seem to have have become the process, is what concerns me. Time to change things up and rebuild with some fresh ideas.