09-23-2016, 10:50 AM
(09-23-2016, 12:53 AM)JumboTron Wrote: With the advent of the salary cap and free agency it's much more difficult to win at such a high level in the NFL now as opposed to decades past. Belichick is the best to have ever done it at the Pro level.
Exactly. In the past, players were basically indentured servants who had to take what you gave them. Now, they have the ability to leave. Belichick is a football genius, plain and simple. He knows who to draft, who to bring in, when to let guys go. I cannot stand the Patriots, but it is impossible not to have a healthy dose of admiration for the entire organization. All they do is win.
How bad must it suck to be a Cleveland fan? Knowing that you had Bill, and Ozzie, and Saban all on the same staff. Think about the level of success that team could have achieved if they would have built a new stadium and Modell kept the team there. Instead Bill went to New England and became the best ever, Ozzie went to Baltimore and won two Super Bowls, and Saban ends up as a National Championship machine. Then they build a new stadium, but still end up with a POS team year after year.
