Bill Belichick is one of the most successful NFL coaches of all time. That’s an inarguable fact.
But when you put Belichick’s career success next to his peers and make the comparison, it’s staggering the type of prolonged success the New England Patriots head coach has enjoyed over the course of his career.
It started Wednesday with Bleacher Report, who sent a tweet comparing Belichick’s career .669 winning percentage (232-115) to the recently fired Jeff Fisher (.512 winning percentage). If Belichick went 0-16 over the next six seasons, Bleacher Report pointed out, the Patriots head coach would still have a higher winning percentage than Fisher.
USA TODAY’s For The Win built on that incredible statistic Thursday when it published an infographic showing how many games Belichick would have to lose in a row to match those coaches’ career winning percentage, which, of course, assumes they stopped coaching and didn’t improve (or hurt) their career marks.
One simple graphic showing how much better Bill Belichick is than other NFL coaches https://t.co/ZrsuBrw9mL pic.twitter.com/robJcpnstz
— For The Win (@ForTheWin) December 15, 2016
Yep. Belichick would have to lose 668 straight games in order to match Jacksonville Jaguars head coach (for now) Gus Bradley’s career winning percentage. Perhaps just as staggering is looking at respected, successful head coaches like Pittsburgh’s Mike Tomlin or Green Bay’s Mike McCarthy. Belichick would have to basically lose an entire season to be on their level.
Not only that, New York Giants head coach Ben McAdoo is the only coach who technically has a better winning percentage than Belichick — his coaching career is 13 games old.
Just example No. 2,390 or thereabouts of how Belichick is in a class of his own.
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