All Pats needed was bring back AB, keep Gronk, and TB12 would've stayed. Beli is a great coach, but his ego was the key for this break up.

Bout time y'all realize this .. nikka benched his starting cb and his defense didn't force one punt a game, in a SUPERBOWL .. I can't believe y'all let that slide
Personally, I've always had Tuna as the GOAT, not Beli. He could walk into any situation and make them competitive almost immediately. If there wasn't talent on the roster, he was restocking the cupboards within a couple years.
Tuna has Beli, Coughlin and Sean Payton on his coaching tree. That's nine SBs between them.Bill Walsh is the GOAT of coaches. He's one 4 Superbowls and his fingerprints are all over the 5th one. But it's not only his rings that make him the Goat. It's the fact that some many of his assistants have been successful coaches too. To this day his lineage of coaching is still active in the NFL. Yet will Beli none of his assistants have had success coaching in the NFL after leaving the Pats except Charlie Weiss when he left for Notre Dame.
fukk next year we talking bout right now

It's easier to transform an NFL team from missing the playoffs to a playoff contender compared to other sports. The Patriots could easily have a great offseason and be contenders next year![]()
The drafts havent been good
Reread my post. I already addressed this.
"Were all of them the #1 receiver in the league? No. But they were very productive for their teams. And Belichick could have gotten most of them. And the problem is that Belichick's players were nowhere near very productive."
They didn't have to all be Antonio Brown level. But they weren't failures like 75% of the receivers Belichick had drafted were. Again, the Patriots could have gotten Santonio Holmes and Mercedes Lewis but they got Lawrence Maroney, a bust.
And I'm not moving goalposts. I used receivers as an example, because you asked me to bring up examples of how teams like the Ravens and Steelers have been able to find talent without drafting high at the beginning of rounds. I chose Steelers receivers as an example.
I could have done running backs, defense, etc.
Everyone knows this. Belichick isn't that good of a GM.
AGAIN, I'm NOT saying he needed to get top 5 level players at every position. The issue is that too many of them are failures for such a large sample size.
And thats bad given the expectations we hold Belichick to.





EXACTLY!The same starting cb that one him the previous Superbowl with a big play at the goal line.