But you guys can still switch sides and root for the Pats. There’s still time for you yet

The secret to the Pats success is very similar to the success at Alabama.
BB is very similar to Saban in the fact that they are both phenomenal at evaluating talent. Especially good at identifying players that can play in their system. They understand exactly what they need and exactly how to use those players. Saban is also phenomenal at recruiting those players. BB is very good at acquiring them also. That’s why the Patriots feel like Brady is more a product of their system. Lots of QBs would have won SBs had they played for NE. This last SB is a perfect example. Brady played piss poor for the most part.

Primate @ 8/2/2019 15:06

I like the cowboys, but am not delusional enough to think Emmitt Smith was top 3 among cowboy HB's, let alone all time, all NFL. I don't think Aikman was a top 50 QB all time, let alone top 5. Those guys won a lot of Superbowls and were it not for the niners would have won a lot more, but that doesn't make them Johnny U and Jim B.

Emit Smith was an outstanding RB. But most of his career was spent playing behind an All Pro O line and following an All Pro Fullback thru the hole. He also had an offense that was loaded with weapons around him. Defenses could not focus on stopping him. Barry Sanders on the other hand was the complete opposite and was unstoppable most of the time.

Aikman was good but not great. I’d say maybe 35-50. See the same as above. He also had good defenses that would bail him out.

Football is a TEAM sport. You got to have the supporting cast to win SBs. Look what Montana had around him. HOFs every where.

The best QB I ever saw was Dan Marino. And really isn’t even close. He put up phenomenal stats with sub par talent. No running game and defenses would focus on stopping the pass and they couldn’t. And he played in an era where QBs were hit almost every drop back. Unlike the touch football Brady gets to play in today. . Nobody could throw it like him. Had he played in SF he would have won 10 SBs.

As far as the best RB I ever saw, Bo Jackson, Earl Campbell, Barry Sanders. Every single time those guys touched the ball, you knew it could be a TD. No matter what part of the field they were on.

Curtis @ 8/2/2019 18:35

Brady’s got all those intangibles that can’t be weighed He’s the clutchest QB ever. No better person to close out a game THE GOAAAAATTTTTTTT

Neutral field, playoff game on the line, I'll take Montana over Brady.


If you weren't so young, and so Bostonian, you'd agree with me.

Havo @ 8/2/2019 20:09

Primate @ 8/2/2019 15:06 I like the cowboys, but am not delusional enough to think Emmitt Smith was top 3 among cowboy HB's, let alone all time, all NFL. I don't think Aikman was a top 50 QB all time, let alone top 5. Those guys won a lot of Superbowls and were it not for the niners would have won a lot more, but that doesn't make them Johnny U and Jim B. Emit Smith was an outstanding RB. But most of his career was spent playing behind an All Pro O line and following an All Pro Fullback thru the hole. He also had an offense that was loaded with weapons around him. Defenses could not focus on stopping him. Barry Sanders on the other hand was the complete opposite and was unstoppable most of the time. Aikman was good but not great. I’d say maybe 35-50. See the same as above. He also had good defenses that would bail him out. Football is a TEAM sport. You got to have the supporting cast to win SBs. Look what Montana had around him. HOFs every where. The best QB I ever saw was Dan Marino. And really isn’t even close. He put up phenomenal stats with sub par talent. No running game and defenses would focus on stopping the pass and they couldn’t. And he played in an era where QBs were hit almost every drop back. Unlike the touch football Brady gets to play in today. . Nobody could throw it like him. Had he played in SF he would have won 10 SBs. As far as the best RB I ever saw, Bo Jackson, Earl Campbell, Barry Sanders. Every single time those guys touched the ball, you knew it could be a TD. No matter what part of the field they were on.

Payton would be in my RB group. He too played on shit teams aside from 85 when they had a GOAT defense.. Near the very top. Peyton is close to Marino. I always wished Marino would have done a year or two in a system that could get him a SB near the end of his career like Elway got to do.

Earl Campbell was so fun to watch. He just mauled people. Riggins was really fun to watch in his heyday, too, but mainly because that OL got him to the 2nd level where he could absolutely abuse LB's and DB's. He would be a DE or LB today.

Hell Phil Simms played in 2 super bowls and he was pretty mediocre.

Curtis @ 8/2/2019 18:55

I’m so glad I don’t root for the sad sap nobodies that you all root for

Decades as a laughing stock, then this historic run would even make decent people act like this.