The Patriots beat the Dallas Cowboys on Sunday, a victory that gives New England 17 straight seasons of 10 wins or more, which is crazy when you think about it.

It’s also a new NFL record as they surpassed the San Francisco 49ers who once did it 16 years in a row.

Bill Belichick, of course, has been the head coach for all these 10-win seasons and six Super Bowl victories.

Belichick is appearing as an analyst on NFL Network’s “NFL 100’’ show, a six-episode show that counts down the top 100 players and top 10 coaches in NFL history.

In the first episode this past weekend Belichick was named one of the top 10 coaches. Rich Eisen then asked him about his coaching philosophy and his answer was pretty great as he quoted Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War.”

This is fun:

He said:

“You can go all the way back to a few hundred years B.C., Sun Tzu, ‘The Art of War.’ Attack weaknesses, utilize strengths and figure out what the strengths are on your team. There are some things you have to protect. Find the weaknesses of your opponent and attack. You can’t win a war by digging a hole. You gotta attack. You have to figure out where you want to attack, how you want to attack and that changes week to week and game to game.”

Seems like on Sunday Jason Garrett tried to win a war by digging a hole when he went for a field goal in the fourth quarter instead of going for it on fourth down.