On Wednesday, Yahoo! Sports columnist Charles Robinson unloaded a shotgun blast at the New England Patriots’ Bill Belichick, presenting a long, carefully constructed argument that the so-called “Patriot Way” established by the 71-year-old head coach during his 24 seasons in Foxborough has never really existed. Robinson was making a case that the franchise’s success had relatively little to do with Belichick. Instead, he said, it was built on the skill of quarterback Tom Brady.
[Belichick is] a bottom-line, what-have-you-done-lately “results” type of guy, so let’s stick to that mantra and deliver it without any varnish.