The New England coach has fielded much better players in his two decades of dominance. Which makes his sixth Super Bowl title all the more impressive
Never have the New England Patriots been so doubted. A creaking 41-year-old quarterback. A Hall of Fame tight end on his last legs. A slow defense. Julian Edelman, Tom Brady’s favorite weapon, coming off an ACL injury and a doping suspension. Five road losses.
It wasn’t the prettiest, but Super Bowl LIII may well have been Bill Belichick’s best coaching job to date. Seventeen years to the day that Belichick and the Patriots beat the Rams to kickstart their dynasty, they clinched their sixth title – putting them ahead of Landry’s Cowboys, Noll’s Steelers, and Lombardi’s Packers as the greatest team in the history of the sport.
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