Where does Belichick rank?

I think it's a pretty safe bet, Tom Brady leaves the NFL as the best QB to ever play.

How about Bill Belichick? Best ever?
Does the "cheating" diminish his accomplishments? Is he only as good as as QB?


I hate to say it, but I think he's prolly the best ever?
Lombardi was great, but I think Walsh is the only other coach who could lay claim to GOAT.

 

Belichick himself believes Paul Brown was the greatest coach ever.

 

So did Walsh.

 

Walsh probably had the biggest impact on the game, at least as far as people copying his style and there was one point where there was an insane number of coaches from Walsh's tree across the NFL.

Lombardi, Belichick and Walsh would be my top 3.

 

Let's see how Deflategate plays out. That will go a long way toward cementing the status of Belichick.

And even though he'd be in my top five, no way he goes past Lombardi.

 

Deflate gates a joke and has no bearing on his legacy.

 

"SpyGate" does.

 

Prolly? Are you a 12-year-old girl?

 

Four SB wins in 15 years, six appearances during that time.

Yes... I'll say it. GOAT for Belichick.

Walsh runs in for 11 years with SF and had that stupendous run with 3 SB in 3 tries. Noll had 4/4 in the 1970s but, in the last 12 years, Pittsburgh was a bit player during the 1980's in the weak AFC.

Since 2001, Belichick has almost always had the Patriots on the precipice of playing for something big.

 

I also give him points for doing it in the salary-cap era. Once Walsh got his team together, it was pretty easy to see how it could just about run on auto-pilot (and did with Seifert as a rookie coach). Couldn't keep all that talent around these days.

 

Walsh's 49ers were banging heads with two other multiple Super Bowl winning teams in his era, the Giants and Redskins, plus the '85 Bears. I rate this one as the Patriots best Super Bowl victory because it's by far the best team they beat to win a title.

 

You know whose HOF credentials got a lot stronger last night? Tom Coughlin's.