Amid the plaudits being sent back and forth between Tom Brady and Bill Belichick as they prepare for Sunday’s Tampa Bay-New England game in Foxborough, there remains an underlying question fueling the soap opera that is the NFL.
Did the league’s greatest quarterback and coach really need to split back in the spring of 2020?
It was the end of a two-decade, six-Super Bowl titles partnership. Brady is leading (overwhelmingly) the post breakup scoreboard, of course. He added a seventh Lombardi Trophy. Belichick is 8-11 in that time.