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Bill Belicheck has a losing career record in games in which Tom Brady is not his Quarterback.

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The cleveland browns were 3-13 the year before Belicheck took over and went 6-10, 7-9, 7-9, 11-5 and 1-1 in the playoffs. Thats a pretty good run for a rookie head coach (he was 5-11 the next year they were 4-3 i believe when the move to Baltimore was annoucned which made winning virtually impossible that year).

EDIT: Otto Graham for best QB ever.

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How does announcing that your team is moving make winning impossible? Do the players no longer want to win because they'll be playing somewhere else next year? I don't understand that sentiment.

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Impossible is obviously an exaggeration, but the rest of the year became a circus. Quite a few players had moved to cleveland with their families and were pissed at the owner for moving them to another city. The media stopped asking questions about games and only about the move/how could it be avoided/lawsuits by the city ect. The coaching staff was uncertain of their future with the team (turns out they had none), in general there was a lot more stress and focus on things other than winning football games than would normally accompany a team.