Brady has 0 Super Bowls without BB. And?
Your point is a good one.
It isn’t about Super Bowls. It isn’t about their 2020 win/loss records. It’s about Tom going to a completely different system, terminology, culture, and looking exactly the same. Efficiency, preparation, poise, results. Those are Tom’s attributes. It isn’t about 40 TDs...that’s more about skill players as it always has. But it’s about the way he’s played and the way he’s looked...the same player.
There’s nothing another Super Bowl would do, in my book, to make me change my opinion on Tom’s relationship with Bill. Whether he wins one or not is irrelevant. It’s not a victory lap for people who have been trying to myth bust the idea that Belichick is magical wizard.
Bill has done, for 20 years, arguably more than any coach/GM (dual role) in the expansion/salary cap era - for any US sport, by being a phenomenal coach and GM but not by sprinkling dairy dust on Tom.
One interesting wrinkle is that Tom has gotten more comfortable in Tampa because Arians simplified the route trees. I’ve said for years that this actually isn’t as complicated as people make it out to be, and that Tom is always at his best when teams have used all their wrinkles and it’s just about execution - not chess moves - in the 4th quarter in the postseason. Manning did the same thing in Denver. I think there’s a misunderstanding about the types of complexities quarterbacks deal with to be successful.
Why is it that the smartest offense in the NFL was shutout in the first quarter in nine Super Bowls, though that’s the time they run their scripted plays dialed up prior to the game, but in the fourth quarter they were always unstoppable? This isn’t to crap on the Patriots but to consider that Brady, and most QBs, are not as scripted or micro-coached as some (especially here) make them out to be.