Trigger Warning: if you’re the betting type, there’s maybe a 50/50 shot you can bet the rent that at some point here we’re going to veer off on a Bill Simmons-esque I-cut-the-brakes tangent that’s a neverending cover-zero-blitz of hypothetical question after hypothetical question until your author’s head explodes.
Just like how every discussion about Metallica inevitably digresses into everyone’s personal power rankings of the first four albums, at some point in every bargument involving the Patriots, this hypothetical comes up:
A few plays break a different way, and Tom Brady’s got 9 Super Bowl rings.