Ok, but Brady was involved in the same scandals Belichick was; if anything, for whatever you think deflategate is worth, Brady was directly involved in it more than Belichick ever could be. So again, this is the mental gymnastics you have to do when you have people who have long since provided evidence that their achievements are legitimate, but people want to believe otherwise so they cling to any crackpot controversy to justify their denials.
As for Belichick's record without Brady, you can say all you want about it, but to take a fraction of this man's career and give the credit for every success to the QB, while leaving out the context of his failures, is maliciously disingenuous. The guy built the SB winning Ravens defense that carried Trent Dilfer, and did it again in New England, but because of the Browns' relocation got railroaded and doesn't get credit for those moves. And the revisionist history is even more insulting when people forget Brady only made 3 TD passes on the first SB run; he wasn't lighting the world on fire for those first few years; the defense was the one that stopped the Greatest Show on Turf. And I'm not even saying the man was perfect, but even with his failures post Brady, people act like Kraft didn't interfere with his succession plan, then threw him under the bus when it got messy. The game passes everybody eventually, but it's bad faith to pretend his entire 3 decade career was made by Brady, taking everything out of context.
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