The internet is a place where people who know little to nothing about football viciously spreadtheir hot takes. The topic of today’s disussions centers on how Brady is an overrated system QB riding the coatails of the greatest football mastermind since Bill Walsh. There’s a reason these fans have to resort to Twitter rants as they sit at home acting like an expert about the topic, and that’s because they know shit about what they’re saying.

The Patriots recent shutdown victory vs. the Texans 27–0 has sparked once again a collection of awe and amazement for Bill Belichick’s football genius, and rightfully so. The man’s a legend and probably the best coach of all time. No man has done more with less on his field than him in terms of talent.

This in turn has led to many NFL fans who loathe and ache for the Patriots’ demise to look for an excuse to stir the pot, and make an argument that makes no sense. Seeing them go 3–0 without Brady has disappointed them deeply, as all they wanted to do was laugh and boast about how the Patriots will be useless this year. In consequences, they have created a reality distortion field to find some comfort within their own thoughts, and the easiest target for this distortion was Brady himself.

Save for the fact that most of these mindless zombies were once celebrating Brady’s suspension, now they have the audacity to change their stance and proclaim Brady to be all part of Bill’s system, and had little to nothing to do with all of the Patriots’ Super Bowl appearances and wins.

What once was a joke saying Belichick could turn any player into a star QB has developed into a hot take people actually take seriously.

I fear for the future of this country if a large percentage of its population makes excuses like this one in order to try and discredit other people’s success. If they do it to football players who offer little to nothing productive on their lives, imagine what they say about their peers. It’s the wrong attitude to take in life because it turns you into a despicable loser.

A four time Super Bowl champion (now six), three time Super Bowl MVP (now four), two time league MVP(now three), holder of countless of NFL records (now more), and a top five player in every statistical category is not, under any logical and critical circumstances, overrated or a system QB. Anyone trying to make an argument will end up looking like the town drunk, but lucky for them, there are many town drunks all across America it seems.

But the question still remains to be answered in the eyes of many, who was more important for the Patriots success this entire century? The answer, as much as a cop out as it may sound, is both.

It’s always been 50/50 proposition. You can dissect reasons as to why one was more important than the other and come up with rebuttal in favor of either one of them. For example, you could say Belichick was a super bowl winning coach before Brady, but he didn’t win one as a head coach. They both have been valuable to the Patriots, and without either one of them the Patriots wouldn’t be as successful as they have been. People seriously think that Belichick was going to reach six Super Bowls (nine) without Brady and vice versa? Seriously?

Belichick was nothing without Brady and Brady was nothing without Belichick. Belichick wouldn’t have defeated the Seahawks without Brady’s historic 4th quarter comeback and Brady wouldn’t have won that Super Bowl if it wasn’t for the Patriots’ resilience on the defensive side of the ball. Simple as that. Only an idiot would say one was more important than the other. They’re both the best at their respective positions.

This should be the end of a pointless and tiresome “debate”, buried deep within the trenches of hot takes that never see the light when it’s all said and done. There’s one more game before Brady returns, and I hope everyone who watches football sees the difference between how the Patriots operated with him than without him. At the end of the day, it is Patriots fans who will enjoy the rest of the season, hopefully of course.