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Originally Posted by Oldcolt
The nature of the lying by Belecheat is way different. First and foremost, he wins Super Bowls. When he says he has it covered, he actually does. He isn’t up there pretending to be your pastor, somehow occupying the moral high ground, and throwing people under the bus.
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I have to disagree here Oldcolt. How many Super Bowls has Belichick won without Brady? The answer is exactly "Zero." Belichick doesn't even have a winning record (in New England or elsewhere) in games without Brady. Here's a recent article discussing it:
https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nf...hout-tom-brady
In short, Belichick's record is an astounding 217-64 (77.4% win rate) with Brady, but without Brady it's a very pedestrian 72-82 (46.7% win rate). Even removing his five unsuccessful early years with the Browns, he's still under .500 (36-38) in New England without Brady.
Brady, by contrast, had a record of 24-9 (72.7% win rate) away from Belichick coming into the season, not to mention a Super Bowl win. The win rate has dropped a little after he unretired and returned this season, but it's still 27-14 (65.8%) by my calculations. So it's not like there was some sort of Brady-Belichick magic and they are both struggling away from each other.
So maybe Belichick isn't the genius everyone assumes he is? Just like the everyone else, and even with the added benefit of his cheating ways, he struggles mightily without a top end QB. Moreover, in this season, after following the seemingly preferred strategy of drafting a future QB in the first round last year (and one who lots of "experts" claimed prior to the season was the best of his class, while again trumpeting Belichick's genius), the Patriots are 4-4 and mired in a QB controversy.
By comparison, in the post-Luck era (2019 and afterwards, including this year), Reich has a record of 30-26-1 (53.6% win rate).