I'm not sure belichick can rebuild this team again either
Here's the best part - Unlike other years where you signed up for a certain SB run, the FA players who are are worth a damn (Tuney) will seek employment elsewhere. They won't want to play under the old school beatdown coach with an increasingly crappy team. We started to see it last year with Van Noy, Brady, etc. Let the floodgates open.
exactly. no longer can belichick say, " come play here for cheap and get a ring". I think its over. he started it by going to a Parcells built Patriots team. then after a year of sucking, he added a dozen Parcells guys from the Jets when Groh left and the Jets were dismantled . he used 2 Parcells teams to teach the way and the winning just kept going and going ...
every year he just added a few free agents who wanted a ring cause the core group was already there. he never had to worry about drafting good players
and lets not forget Scarnechia was there before Belichick and when Scarnechia retired it took only a year for Belichick to get him un retired. brady spent 20 years behind the best and most under rated offensive line there ever was and every time one of those lineman left , they went somewhere else and stunk while Scarnechia plugged in someone else and never missed a beat. ....and all that is now gone
plus, this year the afc finally got some good teams and belichick finally played the hardest schedule in football which sent brady running with her tail between her legs
I think it's over
it just better be for brady too. he is in a way better situation on a very talented team, in the nfc which now, doesnt have much good