That seemed like an uncharacteristically noodle arm throw, surprised he didn't make the end zone from there.
jetpack_operation
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Our blocking is so bad, he's stepping up when the pressure comes from the edge like you're supposed to but there's zero contain or seal so the edge just cuts backs and sacks him. Every time.
This flip is so funny to see. The whole idiotic "Brady or Belichick" stuff began almost exclusively to handwave away Brady's success by fans of other QBs. For years and years, it was used to disparage Brady's accomplishments as a QB and, ya know, iF mAnNiNg hAd bELicHicK he woulda won it 10!
I adamantly defended Brady at the time because players play. You can be the best coach in the world, but if your player doesn't jibe with what you're doing, you're not going to win an insane amount of championships and compete for two decades straight.
I'm going to adamantly defend Belichick's role in the dynasty because writing him off now is as stupid as writing off Tom Brady then. There's valid criticism of how he's running the team now but you can't take away the program he built around Brady. I do think there are elements that are essentially tall tales (the Pats defenses are largely overrated around here outside or 2004 and 2019 and a few others) but you don't win with those not-amazing defenses without the discipline, situational football, and adjustments that you can't attribute to anyone else but Belichick. In fact, the OP is using the extremely flawed metric of defensive scoring to rank defenses.
They were amazing complements to each other -- criticize Bill's current moves and intransigence and fruitless nepotism now if you want, that's fair, but let's not revise history.
Leave it to Aaron Rodgers to say "talent across the league is down" but dumber.