Well, a big reason they haven’t won 9-10 titles is precisely because there HAS been competition year over year. Because they’ve done it for 20 years at a peerless level, naturally those teams have changed. And the league’s ruthless pursuit of points and parity has by and large worked. Their sustained presence as a top 5 team virtually every year - which nobody else has remotely approached - is the real magic.
Anyone who thinks the Pats should be running away with the league every year is ignorant. They are not head and shoulders above every team every year in terms of talent, resources, and coaching a la Alabama. What they have is a generational QB and perhaps the best coach/administrator in sports history, and a related ability to do better than enough teams at enough things over time to win on the margins.
Like, 9-10 Super Bowls? What? That’s like mid century Yankees shit, and this league has the distinction of having 32 teams (as opposed to like 16), a hard salary cap, free agency, and - contrary to popular belief - many of those teams are full of smart people that run them like quasi-military operations. Sometimes they get beat because - SHOCKER - other teams run their shops well, too, if not for as long in any given case, and this is - also SHOCKER - not a science. Hell, just look at the draft. Nobody is consistently ‘great’ at hitting on players percentage-wise.
Their take is so internally inconsistent and counter factual that it’s actually difficult to focus on and do justice to any one of its myriad deficiencies. In that sense, it’s perfect for a call in talk show where your callers get like 20 seconds to make a point.
By their logic, Belichick actually ISNT a great coach/administrator because he’s squandered several title opportunities.....yet we are to believe that they’ve underachieved BECAUSE he is so good and therefore they should have won more. What? If you assess each year, it’s not surprising they’ve come out with 9 SB appearances with 6 wins. Some years they probably shouldn’t have gotten so far yet did, others they probably shouldve gotten farther and did not.