Where are you getting 7 Pro Bowlers in 2013?
2013 Pro Bowl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Scroll down and it gives the number of pro bowlers by team. Maybe it's not accurate, I don't know.
Oh, you know what? I'm sorry, that was the 2013 pro bowl, which came in the winter of 2013. So it's LAST year's pro bowl. My bad.
I count four: Brady, Mankins, Talib, and Slater. Of that list, one is on there for ST prowess, two were drafted, and the other one is a trade. Not sure how his personnel prowess as a GM during FA has anything to do with that. In all of those Pro Bowl lists, there is one name that is a constant on there: Brady. So using that as a reason pretty much makes my point for me. A GOAT QB can do so much for a franchise in terms of winning year in and year out. It's the reason why the team went from being dreadful in 2000 to the team we see currently on this streak in 2014. The rest of their roster has some good to great ones sprinkled in here and there (Mankins, Gronk, Wilfork [formerly, anyway], Mayo, McCourty) as do a lot of NFL rosters. But I'm not sure how you can say that it's the deepest in the league and the sole reason why the team wins year in and year out, especially when you throw consistent roster turnover into the equation.
But regularly, NE has a lot of pro-bowlers. So their upper third of the roster is really, really good. It's not just Brady.