Casey LaMarca
It’s been over one month since the Patriots blew an easy win in the Super Bowl.
Sorry, let me rephrase that, because I made an error in that first statement. It’s been over one month since Bill Belichick blew an easy win in the Super Bowl. Belichick is now 5-3 in Super Bowls as a head coach in the National Football League.
Tom Brady is 8-0.
Tom Brady is 8-0 because in every Super Bowl game he’s played in, he’s either left the field with the win or the lead. When it’s just the lead, Belichick’s defense blows it.
Super Bowl 36: Brady drove the team down the field for the win.
Super Bowl 38: Brady drove the team down the field for the win.
Super Bowl 39: This one was never really in doubt.
Super Bowl 42: Brady left the field with a 14-10 lead. He had nothing to do with the freaking helmet catch.
Super Bowl 46: Brady left the field with a 17-15 lead. He had nothing to do with Mario freaking Manningham.
Super Bowl 49: Brady picked apart one of the best defenses in NFL history in the 4th quarter to complete (at the time) the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history. Belichick can thank Malcolm Butler for allowing Brady to not be spoiled again for his arrogance. Plus, you put Jamie Collins on Marshawn Lynch on the wheel route on the first play after Edelman broke his brain for you and Brady went full GOAT mode? Really?
Super Bowl 51: Our quarterback threw a bad pick, that’s for damn sure. But Belichick had no answers until his quarterback, Thomas Edward Patrick Brady, completed the greatest comeback of all time in Super Bowl history, beating the former record by Thomas Edward Patrick Brady.
Super Bowl 52: Thomas Edward Patrick Brady never let Ryan Allen punt the ball. Belichick benched Butler and let Nick Foles become the silver linings of playbooks.
You get my point.
It’s been a rough month for Pats nation. And luckily, we only have rough months. Not years. We’re on the verge of possibly signing Richard Sherman (publisher's edit: we did not sign Sherman) after making him a sad meme in Super Bowl 49. Brady will be back; and as much as it was difficult to see Jimmy G get traded, it’s hard to trade the greatest quarterback of all time when he’s putting up 500+ yards in the Super Bowl and not letting the team punt. Clearly, that story was the not the problem.
The real problem, at least in 2017, was Bill Belichick. He sat Malcolm Butler and no one will ever know why. I guess with all his success, he gets the benefit of the doubt. But after all this time, I’m starting to wonder. Would I rather have Josh McDaniels and Tom Brady or Bill Belichick and Jimmy Garoppolo? Imagine this showdown? Who would you take? After Super 52, it’s clear. I don’t care who the coach is. It’s a quarterback driven league, not the coach. And that game proved it. Tom Brady went from the greatest quarterback of all time to the best player of all time. Belichick went from greatest coach of all time to greatest coach of all time with a stain.
Now that I’ve vented that away, I’ll get back to logic. Belichick, you are the best coach of all time. But as a GM, time to get back to work and start realizing that it’s okay to let a talented roster dictate things in 2018. Until then, in Brady we trust, not Belichick. But what do I know, I’m just a passionate Patriots fan trying to act on reason. That’s never a good combination.
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