Patriots 10 straight seasons with more than 10 wins

[CyberB0b]

This is an amazing stat, especially in the salary cap era.

[DFWJC]

Originally Posted by CyberB0b

This is an amazing stat, especially in the salary cap era.

It seems almost impossible to do in this era.
Though being in the AFC East during that span can't hurt.
No doubt though, the Pats have an elite organization.

[BoysFan4ever]

They always seem to be very very good.

[Idgit]

All time great QB, all time great head coach. Cowboys fans should know that'll do it better than anybody.

[BringBackThatOleTimeBoys]

Originally Posted by Supercowboy1986

the way the patriots run their org should be the way we should run ours

The way we used to.

I can't help but to admire them since they are doing so many of the things, the Cowboys did 1960-1988.

Originally Posted by Idgit

All time great QB, all time great head coach. Cowboys fans should know that'll do it better than anybody.

Patriots/Belichick/Brady have 12 consecutive winning seasons - 11 playoff berths.

The all time record is Cowboys/Landry/Staubach with 20 consecutive winning seasons - 18 playoff berths.

Anyone want to speculate if the Patriots can match what the Cowboys did?

The critical factors is Brady having a great successor and Belichick wanting to hang around at least eight more seasons.

[BringBackThatOleTimeBoys]

Originally Posted by BringBackThatOleTimeBoys

Patriots/Belichick/Brady have 12 consecutive winning seasons - 11 playoff berths.

10 playoff berths...missed the season after their 1st SB win and the season without Brady, but still finished 12-4....only the Broncos managed to finish 12-4 and fail to make the playoffs.

A great track record nonetheless.

[DFWJC]

Originally Posted by BringBackThatOleTimeBoys

Patriots/Belichick/Brady have 12 consecutive winning seasons - 11 playoff berths.

The all time record is Cowboys/Landry/Staubach with 20 consecutive winning seasons - 18 playoff berths.

Anyone want to speculate if the Patriots can match what the Cowboys did?

.

They will not, in a 20 year span, have 20 winning seasons AND 18 playoff berths.

[rynochop]

Originally Posted by BoysFan4ever

They always seem to be very very good.

Nope..they used to be as irrelevant as any other bad team. When Brady retires they'll suck again.

[CyberB0b]

Originally Posted by rynochop

Nope..they used to be as irrelevant as any other bad team. When Brady retires they'll suck again.

They went 11-5 with Matt Cassel.

[Supercowboy1986]

the way the patriots run their org should be the way we should run ours

[Yakuza Rich]

If there's a brilliance in Belichick, it lies within SpyGate and what resulted from SpyGate.

We know that he is good friends with Jimmy Johnson and Jimmy tried to stick up for Belichick in the SpyGate scandal by stating that he tried to steal signals by using Howard Mudd to see if they could get the signals, but they just couldn't pull it off.

I think Belichick, who learned things from Jimmy like the value of stockpiling picks, thought that if a team could steal signs with a high level of accuracy, the advantage would be there. And thru the use of cameras (Mudd had to do it w/o cameras) and Ernie Adams' quick and brilliant football mind, they were able to pull that off and have way more success than they should have.

But the brilliance extended to how they were able to use their success to their advantage. This is a copycat league and the league often thinks 'if you can't beat them, trade for them.' Thus, you got all these teams trying to do it 'the Patriots way' and acquiring overhyped assistant coaches and making silly trades with the Patriots when the real key to their success was SpyGate and Brady. Most other organizations would never figure out how to use their success to their advantage.

Lastly, people often forget that the AFC East may be the worst division in football. The main reason being is that outside of Brady, none of the other teams have been able to establish anything that looks like a quality franchise QB.

Between the Jets, Dolphins and Bills, the best QB of the bunch in the last 10 years has been Chad Pennington. And by 2002, his shoulder was so messed up that he completely lost his arm strength and couldn't stay healthy. And the '08 season the Dolphins really relied upon the Wildcat to make the playoffs with Pennington. No other division has had anywhere near that lack of quality QB's than the AFC East.

Take a look:

AFC North: Roethlisberger, Palmer, Dalton, Flacco

AFC South: P. Manning, Luck, Vince Young, Schaub, Garrard

AFC West: P. Manning, Cutler, Plummer, Rivers, Brees, Gannon

NFC East: Romo, RG3, McNabb, Vick, E. Manning

NFC North: Cutler, Favre, Rodgers, Stafford

NFC South: Brees, Ryan, Newton, Delhomme, Freeman

NFC West: Bulger, Warner, A. Smith, Hasselbeck


The AFC East, outside of Brady has had:

NY Jets: Sanchez, Pennington, Favre, Clemens, Bollinger

Buffalo: Bledsoe, Holcomb, Losman, Edwards and Fitzpatrick

Miami: Fiedler, Feeley, Frerotte, Harrington, Lemon, Pennington, Henne and Tannehill


So the Pats are at a very distinct advantage due to them playing in the worst division in football.








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[BoysFan4ever]

Originally Posted by rynochop

Nope..they used to be as irrelevant as any other bad team. When Brady retires they'll suck again.

Gosh you took my "always" way too literally.

Let me rephrase it then. They've been very very good for a long time.

[rickjameschinaclub]

Bellicheck has perfected the art of cheating and the fact that he got off for Spygate, while the NFL played all hypocritical when it concerned the Saints, is all one needs to know about this clown.

[CATCH17]

Because coaching + quarterbacking is what it's all about.

If we ever get both then we will have more success as well.