Deebo & Joe - Part 2: Tom Brady ENDS Bill Belichick Debate + Are WRs Overpaid?

**James Harrison** (0:00)
Tom Brady is done debating who's more important between himself and Bill Belichick in the Patriots dynasty.

**Shay Shay** (0:09)
Listen to this.

**Shay Shay** (0:09)
I'd be remiss if we get out of this interview without bringing up the old ball coach. We haven't talked about Bill one time yet.

**Tom Brady** (0:14)
Yeah.

**Shay Shay** (0:15)
I see so many things, and this started happening while you guys were still in the league. Is it Bill? Is it Tom? Like who is responsible for the greatest era of success in the history of the NFL?

**Tom Brady** (0:27)
Yeah.

**Shay Shay** (0:27)
How do you react to those kind of, I guess, clickbaity arguments as well as like, what do you think of Bill and what he meant for your success?

**Tom Brady** (0:37)
First of all, I think he's the greatest coach that ever, a great head coach in terms of preparing a team to win. There was nobody better. I was my privilege to play for him as his quarterback. There's no coach I'd rather choose him. It's just a dumb analogy. It's like, what's more important, the left tackle or the center? Like, I don't know.

**Shay Shay** (0:54)
Well, left tackle. Will you be honest about that one?

**Tom Brady** (0:58)
I disagree. There's nobody more important to winning Monday through Saturday than the head coach.

**Shay Shay** (1:05)
Especially in football.

**Tom Brady** (1:06)
Especially in football. And there's nobody more important on Sunday than the quarterback. Now, everybody's important. The person who washes the clothes is important. The quarterback just has an outsized kind of ability to help the team win because he touches the ball so much. But I need everybody to do their job. But if you have bad quarterback play, it doesn't matter what else you do, you're not going to win. And if you have bad coaching, it doesn't matter how well the players are doing, you're going to lose. So I just think that question is like, they're all important. There's no way I could have been the player I was without him. And I think we pushed each other to, you know, get the best out of each other. And I think he's just, he's incredible. Anyone who played underneath them would say the same thing.

**Shay Shay** (1:45)
Hall of Famer should have been first ballot, man. Crazy. Besides all that, man, one of the most respected ever to f***ing do it, man.

**James Harrison** (1:55)
That's facts, Joe. And that right there, bruh, is why everybody loves and respects Tom Brady. You can disagree with him. You could say he doesn't say some crazy stuff, but you still go respect him, man.
Dude, he gives as much as respect, probably more than he gets. He gives people like so much respect. It don't matter if you were a practice squad dude, if you were a dude that been on the team for 10, 15 years, man. And him saying what he said is, bruh, it's facts. Bill Belichick is the greatest coach to ever coach the game. You're looking at it. You see it.
You see his championships. You see his coaching tree. You see everything that dictates that he should have went first ballot Hall of Fame. The fact that he didn't go first ballot Hall of Fame, man, the NFL Hall of Fame has lost all in absolute credibility.

**Joe Haden** (2:53)
We talked about it.
Yes.
And this is what I say, Deebo.
I agree with him 1000% because we see these quarterbacks. If Tom Brady wasn't drafted to the right situation where you have a coach that's able to hold everybody accountable, his stars, all of his players, him and Tom Brady may have been bumping heads because he's holding that man accountable. And that's what you need from a great coach to be able to push you, to be able to get the best out of you, to not let things slip, to not let that stuff just get so, just any, like Blase, flowy. No, it's none of that flowiness with Bill Belichick. You're going to be held to a standard every day. And that's what makes the coach so great because great players, if you want to be great and you know how much it takes, you will take the coaching because you know it's to make you better. It's nothing to harm you. It's only to help you. So if you want to be great, come take this coaching, come, let's watch this film together. I'm willing to put in the hours because when you're a great coach, you can't deny he's doing everything he can, sometimes maybe a little bit too much to get the edge, but the edge is going to get, you're going to know your coach is going to put you in the best position to win. So that's one with Tom and he could have went to a different team, got drafted to a different situation. And like Aaron Rodgers, that's when you put, if you put this quarterback in this situation, how many wins does he get? What is it, the coach or quarterback? It all works together because you can't say if Aaron Rodgers was drafted to the Patriots because he wasn't. And Bill Belichick wasn't coaching Aaron Rodgers and that situation didn't happen. It happened to be Tom Brady that got drafted there. Happened to be Bill Belichick coaching him with all of these players that he coached up all of these years to have this greatness and be able to do what they were doing because that's a great coach that's leading an amazing talent on the defensive side, offensive side, special teams, bringing you in with execution. Doesn't matter what they just sometimes being able to get rid of good players that you need, knowing like it might be a year. He's doing a year early before you're too late. Bill Belichick just is able to cut the emotional side out of it and be like, what does the tape look like? What is going to be the best process for this team? And that's why when him and Tom Brady could start getting a little, he's like, I need to be planning for the future past Tom Brady. Like that's a situation where you're a coach planning for your team all around no matter what's going on. How's it looking? What we were knowing like, okay, boom, boom, boom. Just that's what great coaches do. So I respect Tom Brady talking about him at such a high level. And the same thing with Bill Belichick because they know what it takes. One couldn't do it without the other. It takes a great quarterback. Tom Brady was great. He wanted to be great. He studied, he loved the game. And the coach at the same time is bringing in everybody, other coaches, schemes, coaching other players and having his team and his system ready for each other. It was a perfect match made in heaven. So we can't take away one from another.