Senior Writer/Editor Scott Smith and Team Reporter Casey Phillips report on the latest news from the 2022 offseason.
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So is Gronk signing or what?
Of course he is going to sign so he can get a ring with Brady then they will both retire
Maybe not. I can see a world where he does leave
1. Bill Belichick is 71-79 (47.3%) in the regular season as a head coach without Tom Brady and 219-64 (77.4%) with Tom Brady
2. Bill Belichick is 1-2 (33.3%) in the playoffs as a head coach without Tom Brady and is 30-11(73.2%) in the playoffs with Tom Brady
3. Bernie Kosar, Vinny Testaverde, Drew Bledsoe, Matt Cassell, Jimmy Garroppolo, and Cam Newton have a *COMBINED* 11 Pro Bowl selections, 16 playoff appearances, 6 conference championship game appearances, and 3 Super Bowl appearances with 8 different head coaches in their careers. Those same 6 quarterbacks have made a *TOTAL* of 0 Pro Bowls, 1 playoff appearance, and 0 conference championship game appearances with Belichick as their head coach
4. Belichick has 9 full seasons as a head coach without Brady under his belt. In those 9 seasons without Brady, he has failed to make the playoffs 7 times with 6 losing seasons
5. Belichick was fired from the Cleveland Browns prior to the 1996 NFL season. The Browns were then promptly relocated to Baltimore where they won a Super Bowl in the 2000 season
6. Belichick was hired as the Browns head coach prior to the 1991 NFL season. The Browns played in the AFC Championship game in 1986, 1987, and 1989
7. Belichick is 35-35 (50.0%) as head coach of the Patriots without Tom Brady. He saw an *IMMEDIATE* 6 win increase and Super Bowl win as soon as Brady became starter in 2001 and saw an *IMMEDIATE* 5 win dropoff and playoff miss when Brady missed an entire season in 2008. Then he saw another *IMMEDIATE* 5 win dropoff once Tom Brady left for the Buccaneers in 2020
8. The 2008 Patriots scored 179 fewer points (11.2 PPG) than their 2007 counterparts and Matt Cassell threw for 1,113 fewer yards, 29 fewer touchdowns, 4 more interceptions, and had a 27.8 decrease in passer rating from Tom Brady in 2007 with the only subtractions from the team being Asante Samuel and Tom Brady. The 2008 Patriots also had the 5th easiest SOS and were 2-4 against playoff teams while still missing the playoffs. The 2007 Patriots had the 8th hardest SOS while being 6-0 against playoff teams in the regular season
9. Drew Bledsoe made the Pro Bowl with 3 different head coaches, but couldn’t with Belichick. Drew Bledsoe also threw for 3,691 yards in 18 games with Belichick, but the moment he goes to Buffalo, he throws for 4,354 yards while posting a better record (being a win away from making the playoffs) and making the Pro Bowl
10. Pete Carroll took the Patriots under Drew Bledsoe to the playoffs twice while Belichick could not do it in his season with Bledsoe. In his 3 seasons as the Patriots head coach, Pete Carroll went 27-21 with 2 playoff appearances and 0 losing seasons
11. In his 6 years as a head coach before 2001, Bill Belichick had never had a top 10 ranked scoring offense. The Patriots offense ranked 25th in 2000 with Drew Bledsoe at quarterback. In 2001, Tom Brady’s first year as a starter, the Patriots ranked 6th in scoring offense
12. Drew Bledsoe has had 10 career 40+ point games in his career, with 3 different teams and 3 different head coaches. His highest point total under Bill Belichick was 30 points which was achieved just once in 18 games
13. Drew Bledsoe’s worst career record of 5-11 was achieved with Bill Belichick as head coach. Bledsoe has produced a better record with every other head coach and team he’s ever played for, including the Buffalo Bills
14. Vinny Testaverde’s best season under Bill Belichick was in 1995 when he threw for 2,887 yards and 17 touchdowns. The very next season Bill Belichick was fired and Testaverde threw for 4,177 yards and 33 touchdowns while making the Pro Bowl under interim head coach Ted Marchibroda. Testaverde now sits at #15 all time in passing yards and #16 all time in passing touchdowns. He has 7 seasons that are better than his best season with Belichick
15. The Patriots offensive coordinator Charlie Weis from 2000-2004, produced 3 top 10 scoring offenses in 4 seasons with Brady as his starting quarterback. Without Brady, he has only produced 1 top 10 scoring offense in 5 seasons
16. Josh McDaniels who was the Patriots offensive coordinator from 2006-2008, and then from 2012-2021, has had a top 10 scoring offense every single year Brady has been his starting quarterback. McDaniels left to become the head coach of the Denver Broncos from 2009-2010. In those two seasons, his scoring offense ranked 20th and 19th respectively. McDaniels was then fired and became the offensive coordinator of the St. Louis Rams in 2011 where his scoring offense ranked 32nd among teams
17. Bill O’Brien became the Patriots offensive coordinator in 2011 where he had the #3 scoring offense in the league. He then went on to be the head coach of the Houston Texans, where, in 6 seasons with the team, he never produced 1 top 10 scoring offense, even with players like Deshaun Watson and DeAndre Hopkins
18. Before Tom Brady, Bill Belichick had never coached a team with either 4,000 passing yards or 30 passing touchdowns in a season. In fact, he didn’t do it when Tom Brady missed an entire season in 2008 or in 2020 after Brady left via free agent one year following Tom Brady throwing for over 4,000 yards at 42 years old
19. Bill Belichick fully expected to be fired in the 2001 season before the Drew Bledsoe injury. According to Charlie Weis, Belichick called him on the phone and told him to put his house up for sale because he didn’t think they were going to last too much longer. According to a Jets coach, in week 2 Belichick and Charlie Weis were talking to them before the game and were saying “We’re going to get fired”. The Jets coach then detailed how Belichick told them how they didn’t want Bledsoe, but he was a big locker room presence
20. Bill Belichick had 3 quarterbacks to start under him that were drafted 1st overall in their respective drafts. Bill Belichick has gone 16-15 with Vinny Testaverde (drafted 1st overall in 1987 NFL draft), 5-13 with Drew Bledsoe (drafted 1st overall in 1993 NFL draft), and 7-8 with Cam Newton (drafted 1st overall in 2011 NFL draft) for a COMBINED record of 28 -36 (43.8%) with 1st overall draft picks at quarterback
21. Bill Belichick has gone 14-21 (40.0%) with quarterbacks that have gone on to make the Super Bowl with another head coach. Bill Belichick has gone 5-13 with Drew Bledsoe who made the Super Bowl in 1996 with Bill Parcels as head coach, 2-0 with Jimmy Garroppolo who made the Super Bowl in 2019 with Kyle Shanahan as head coach, and 7-8 with Cam Newton, who made the Super Bowl in 2015 with Ron Rivera as head coach.
22. In 2016, when Tom Brady missed 4 games due to suspension, the Patriots went 3-1 with Jimmy Garroppolo and then Jacoby Brissett at quarterbacks. In those 4 games, the Patriots played 2 games against teams who finished the season with losing records, 3 games at home, and they were shut out 16-0 to a Buffalo Bills team at home whom Brady put up 41 points against 4 weeks later on the road. The best team the Patriots played in those 4 games were the Houston Texans, who had 16 touchdowns to 17 interceptions on the season and had the same number of fumbles lost as rushing touchdowns. Jacoby Brissett threw a grand total of 0 touchdown passes in 10 quarters played during that 4 game stretch
23. Art Modell is 305-253-8 (54.7%), with 18 playoff appearances, 8 conference championship game appearances, a NFL championship (1964), and a Super Bowl championship (2000) as a NFL owner in games Bill Belichick was not his head coach. In games Bill Belichick was his head coach, Art Modell is 36-44 (45.0%) with 1 playoff appearance and 0 conference championship game appearances
24. Robert Kraft was 54-42 (56.3%), with 4 playoff appearances, 1 conference championship game appearance, and 1 Super Bowl appearance in 6 seasons as a NFL owner from 1994-1999 (bought the team in 1994) without Bill Belichick as his head coach. Robert Kraft is 35-35 (50.0%) with 1 playoff appearance in 4 FULL seasons with a Bradyless Bill Belichick as his head coach
25. In 18 seasons with Tom Brady as his starting quarterback, Bill Belichick won his division 17 times. In 9 seasons without Tom Brady as his starting quarterback, Bill Belichick won his division 0 times
Dang bro!! Nice work👌
Well professor “Doodle” that is a very interesting stat that I never thought of. Well done. SO how much should we say Brady’s career is really worth that the cheap
skates would not dig down and pay for these stats EH??? How fortunate was Belichick and Kraft to find a player who worshiped playing the game more than money and
they took advantage of it.
@J.J. Perez clown is appropriate
Brady is the system. Real 🐐
HAHA
Thank y’all 💗🧸
Definitely need another edge rusher
Line backer! Not edge rusher. No salt but line backer (never salt). OR corner, because I don’t use salt in the kitchen. U?
We don’t need a linebacker we have two of the best in the league
Sodium rocks!
D.White is suspect and over rated to me he’s lost in coverage a lot and is known for not being disciplined with play calls but rather about himself!!!
We got depth in ILB
Stephon Gilmore???
@Nick K that’s what I thought
@Nick Rodriguez we will fix it in the draft why colts just signed him. We have to much money other places to sign him
@Nick K draft??? We don’t have time to develop players our window is closing
@Nick Rodriguez we have two veteran safeties we just signed smb should play better this year he struggled to get back to himself after injury we take someone else in the draft in case injuries happen but Gilmore not the answer. I rather bring Sherman back if anything Gilmore isn’t going to live up to that contract colts gave him
@Nick Rodriguez we have two veteran safeties we just signed smb should play better this year he struggled to get back to himself after injury we take someone else in the draft in case injuries happen but Gilmore not the answer. I rather bring Sherman back if anything Gilmore isn’t going to live up to that contract colts gave him
Happy Gilmore????
Look at what trades Rams making. Buc struggling to keep a lot of what they had. No improvements over last year’s team. I think the writing is on the wall for TB and Tom will play elsewhere next year.
We upgraded at safety, corner and wr so far and the off season isnt really over yet. The only team doing what the rams are doing is the rams which doesnt really fit ur he will play elsewhere cause of what the rams did. Rams been losing people as well
Struggling to keep a lot of what they had? Got back Brady, Chris Godwin, Leonard Fournette, Carlton Davis, Ryan Jensen, Aaron Stinnie, Giovani Bernard, and there is no doubt Rob Gronkowski will be back.. And we added Russell Gage, Shaq Mason and Logan Ryan.. I mean if you’re just a die hard Rams fan and you came here to make a negative comment then just say so, but your comment couldn’t be more ignorant.
After Brady departs, the seasons thereafter, with Boles, will return the Buc’s to mediocrity.
For now, with the Brady Offense, and Brady the real O.C. player coach, as long as team health assists, the Buc’s have an outside chance to be in playoffs, until they face the Rams. Green Bay also is a question mark for Buc’s.
Boles is no Sean Peyton.
Once Brady UNINSTALLED THE RISKIT BISKIT OFFENSE, the Buc’s went on their winning streak.
Might want to rewatch some film and remember brady is the qb lol
Biggest needs are TE, DT, CB and Edge in no order. DT probably won’t go in 1st round unless they get a high ceilings or high floor player that falls to them. Edge would have to be a second round swing since they can split between tryon and who ever they draft
TE not especially our in offense, o-line and D-line are our biggest needs this year. And agree some depth in DB. But for our first overall I would love to see some interior O or D line
@Majin Buu I don’t mind passing on Gaurds since Shaq and Stinnie could start and Robert Hainsey can play either gaurd spot if needed. TE I’m worried about if gronk does leave
Gronk is laughing right now!
He”ll be back.
What do you guys think of CB Kaiir Elam?
Casey looks so good! Great outfit!
Scott please take your Tums… .
Should have traded Godwin, WR’s don’t come back from ACL tears well. And used those trade picks to shore up that defense.
No goodwin = no brady…
The Buccaneers need CB Tyrann Mathieu, why not trade for him
he is a safety.
He Isn’t a corner… Lol probably not a good idea to listen to you as you cant even get a persons postion correct….
O-Line (interior) or D-Line and some depth in DB K. Neal can’t cover
I think Scott needs throat surgery. He always seems to struggle in swallowing. I’m truly being sympathetic to his struggle to swallow. Maybe the Buccaneers doctor would be kind enough to check him out or refer him.
Ooooh yeeeeah…goooo BUCS ❤️
I pray the TE that is like gronk falls to us. That’s just me dreaming