I bet he feels a bit deflated
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It's funny if they hold deflategate against him, but Brady goes in 1st ballot. Otherwise the league is shaping itself to make an āss of itself.
How many QBs have a ring with multiple teams? Just him and Peyton?
So who decided that winning with multiple teams is the only thing that erases being associated with a scandal? Seems like cherry picking standards.
That was mainly meant as a joking dig at Bill
Take Tom Brady out of it and what all did he do? When Brady left for TB, pats fell apart, but Tom won another SB. His time as DC in NY is noteworthy, getting 2 rings there, but without Tom, he's nothing. Couldn't even get a winning season in cfb.
And then there's the scandals. Deflategate, taping practices, and a few others I forget off hand.
I'm glad he wasn't a lock, for whatever reason.
Deflategate was a clown show, not a scandal. At worst it was a minor rules violation that a $22 million investigation ultimately couldn't conclude even happened.
Taping practices was a deliberate protest of a mid season rule change. The NFL issued a memo that this couldn't be done anymore and the Pats continued with the argument that you couldn't just issue a memo mid season to change the rules. It blew up because a Rams player offhandedly said "it feels like they know what we're doing before we do."
Keep in mind that shortly after all this, the Saints were discovered issuing bounties to players who injured their opponents, which is straight up evil, but people remember deflategate.
Belichick might not be the greatest coach of all time, but he coached arguably the most successful team of all time, and that's Hall of Fame material.
Sure, if you ignore all the wins, he didn’t win much. But the fact is, he did. He won more than anybody else. History speaks for itself. Plenty of coaches are in the HOF with fewer accomplishments, and plenty of “better” teams accomplished less. There’s no rational argument for not including BB in the HOF.
People are seriously acting like his SB 25 defensive plan being in the HoF is "noteworthy"… over accusations that were literally proven to be fabricated.
So long as he gets in it doesn't really matter. If they want to protest whatever by not making him first ballot then fine, but completely leaving him out is worse than baseball with Bonds.