I wonder how much the Vrabel firing played into that. Seems like a no-brainer that he's the replacement. Belichick will go down as one of the great defensive masterminds but as a GM he didn't have a good feel for offensive skill as almost all the offensive players he drafted were no good and it seems he was too locked into what they had been doing on offense decades ago with Weis and McDaniels that he didn't trust bringing in outsiders to run their offense and tried to get his guys like Judge, Patricia, and O'Brien to come in and run that same offense and the truth is that it's just not a great offense (Raiders fans know this well) in today's NFL and almost all of their offensive success on offense was due to Brady. At 72 years it's a stretch to think he could ever adapt to a more modern offense so this is the right decision. Pretty crazy run of coach firings, separations, retirements (Saban) the past few days.
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