Top Corner or Star Back: Bailey Makes It Clear

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Originally Posted by smootsmack

Defense, I think Bill Belichick is a very big reason for the Patriots' success the past couple of years. Now, we have someone better than Belichick.

Somehow, the fact that the Patriots are coached by Bill Belichick seems to go unnoticed whenever people discuss how ingenious the Patriots' salary cap management has been over the past few years. Thank you, smootsmack, for pointing out that the Patriots' success over that time had a little something to do with the guy patrolling the sidelines. Suppose the Redskins had been coached by Belichick all this time-- how would Dan Snyder's cap management be viewed now? Yes, Snyder has been petulant and impatient with his coaches-- because none of them were good enough. But his approach to cap management might be viewed a little differently if any of those coaches were even nearly as skilled as Belichick or Gibbs. There might be a few more trophies in that case at Redskins Park to account for all that "wild spending".