What Went Down In Super Bowl LV

Michael, there’s a school of thought that says this season was one of Belichick’s best coaching jobs yet, given the utter lack of talent on both sides of the ball. And he’s every bit the driven competitor that Brady is. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jonathan Kraft signs off on a major push to get the Patriots back on top — or if Belichick gets them there.

I think Brady’s Super Bowls in New England will now be associated more with Brady than with Belichick. He’s not Bart Starr to Belichick’s Vince Lombardi, that’s for sure.

I didn’t believe last year’s Buccaneers team was a 43-year-old Tom Brady away from winning the Super Bowl. And he wasn’t THAT great: ninth in passer rating, ninth in QBR, fourth in DVOA, etc. And you can argue the Bucs caught some breaks, too: San Francisco imploded, along with Drew Brees’s rib cage, and somehow Brady went into Lambeau and threw three picks and came out a winner.

But there’s no denying that he was exceptional when they needed him to be, and he deserves every bit of credit he’s about to get.