Yes. He’s the best game strategist in football. He’s also the best game management coach in football. I don’t always agree with the playcallling, but it’s hard to know who s making what decision in that regard, but in particular I don’t like his unwillingness to go for it on 4 th downs, especially when they are behind late in games. But I have never seen a coach better at negating a team’s strength, and forcing them to beat you with their weaknesses.
My problem with Belichick is free agency, more than anything else. I think he is usually looking for the best deal, instead of the best player, and I think that’s a bad approach to it. He does make some good surprise big moves, like the Judon decision, but he’s also whiffed on them, like Adaliys Thomas, although I don’t know anyone who didn’t love that signing when he made it. I would also like Groh and Wolf in charge of the draft decisions. But overall I think Belichick just coaching would be the best decision, I just don’t know if he would agree with that. On the other hand I don’t think he would really want to start over at another franchise with the prospect of having to run all of their football operations, and doubt most owners would want to give him that responsibility at this point. But he could be scary in a place like San Diego if he just went there as their coach.
I would laugh my ass off if Brady ended up being an owner of the Raiders with Belichick coaching them.