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10/12/2026

Is Bill Belichick the best football coach ever?

Many people seem to think so. Many have said that as if it is fact. But, is it really? Consider this…

Yes, his teams won 6 Super Bowls and the New England Patriots were dominant for many years while he was coaching there. If you look only at that, it does seem like a given.

However, if you check his record in games where Tom Brady was not his starting QB it was 84-103. That record does not suggest he was the greatest NFL coach ever. It is actually a pretty weak record.

And those 6 Super Bowl victories? Tom Brady was his starting QB for all.

Sure, give him some credit for the development of Tom Brady. But remember that after Brady left the Patriots they had very little success even though Belichick was still the head coach. Brady went to Tampa Bay and had good success, including another Super Bowl victory. So, do those 6 Super Bowls provide evidence the Belichick was the best NFL coach ever, or that his teams were being led by the QB that most argue was the GOAT.

By comparison, John Madden never had a losing season in his 10 year coaching career with 3 different starting QBs. He did have only 1 Super Bowl victory.

Don Shula had only 2 losing seasons across a 33 year career with many different starting QBs. Most of the games were started by one of five different QBs, but his teams had a winning record with the various other starting QBs as well. He has 2 Super Bowl victories.

Joe Gibbs overall NFL coaching record was 171-101. His record includes 3 Super Bowl victories, with 3 different starting QBs.

So, if your measuring stick is simply the number of Super Bowl victories, Belichick is clearly the best of all. But, given his record when Tom Brady was not his staring QB, was his coaching the main reason for his 6 Super Bowl victories? Some of those other coaches had very impressive records that were not dependent on a single QB.

If you believe Belichick is the greatest NFL coach of all time, you are entitled to your opinion. Because of his record with Tom Brady as the starting QB, that is a valid opinion. But this is to suggest that it isn’t nearly as definite as some might suggest.

10/09/2026

10/05/2026

What has happened on Oct 5?

1813 – Death of Tecumseh: The legendary Shawnee chief Tecumseh was killed in action during the War of 1812 at the Battle of the Thames in Ontario, Canada.

1921 – First Radio Broadcast of the World Series: Game 1 of the 1921 World Series (Giants vs. Yankees) was broadcast on the radio for the very first time.

1947 – First Televised Oval Office Address: President Harry S. Truman delivered the first-ever presidential address broadcast live on television from the White House.

1970 – PBS Founded: The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) was officially established, replacing National Educational Television.

Chester A. Arthur: The 21st President of the United States was born in 1829.

Ray Kroc: Builder of McDonald's into a global fast-food empire was born in 1902..

Mario Lemieux: Hall of Fame NHL legend who led the Pittsburgh Penguins to back-to-back Stanley Cups was born in 1965.

Travis Kelce: All-Pro NFL tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs, AKA, husband of Taylor Swift, was born in 1989.

10/01/2026

Are you a sports fan? – Part 2

A few days ago we posted some sports records that are very likely to never be broken. We also shared that we would follow with a record that simply will not be broken. You can’t even start to make a case on how it could be broken.

We asked if you thought you knew which it might be. Unless you have looked at Major League Baseball history, you didn’t guess correctly because it is from 1911. None of us were alive (apologies if you are at least 115 years old and using a computer!). If you are a MLB fan you have heard the name, Cy Young, because the top award for a pitcher each year is called the Cy Young award.

First, an appetizer... During his career Cy Young recorded 511 wins, the record. If a MLB pitcher averaged 25 wins per season for 20 seasons he would still be 11 wins short of the record. And the last time a MLB pitcher averaged at least 25 wins over just a 5 year span was 1948 (Hal Newhouser). Another way to look at it is that if a pitcher averaged 20 wins per season over a 25 year span they would also be 11 wins short of the record. And no MLB pitcher has averaged 20 wins per season for even a 10 year span since 1971 (Juan Marichal). And 20 wins per season over a 20 year span would be 400 wins and only one pitcher other than Cy Young has won 400 games during their career, Walter Johnson. His career ended in 1927.

Cy Young’s wins record almost certainly will not be broken!

But Cy Young holds another record that is clearly unbreakable, to the degree that you can’t even make a case for it to be broken.

During his career Cy Young pitched an unfathomable 749 complete games. Only 2 pitchers have pitched enough complete games to be within 200 complete games of Cy Young, and they also pitched in the late 1800s.

Ahh, but maybe there is a phenom in MLB right now who will eventually get there! Wanna bet?

In the just completed MLB season the leaders (there is a many way tie) pitched 1, yes, ONE complete game, each. The current MLB pitcher who has pitched the most complete games is Justin Verlander, whose career started in 2006. Since then, in the roughly 20 years since he was a rookie, he has pitched 26 complete games. He may not get to even 30 complete games before he retires.

You say that isn’t a fair comparison because MLB has changed so much? You are absolutely correct, and that is the point. As MLB teams have evolved to 4 man rotations and then 5 man rotations and added relief specialists, some specifically for the 8th inning and Closers, specifically for the 9th inning, complete games are a rarity.

So, given how the teams play today and how they use their pitchers, Cy Young’s record of 749 complete games will, without question, never be broken…

10/01/2026

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