Catfish Noodlin posted:

I think he wants the wins record, and it's probably become a personal thing after Shula was pretty explicit about calling Belichick out on the cheating over the years when pretty much all the other coaches fell all over themselves to be diplomatic about it.

I do kinda suspect the Patriots have sort of hosed up their rebuilding plan a little bit, between the opt-outs rolling some cap burden on aging players they intended to cut into '21, and Newton being good enough to get them out of contention for a top QB but not good enough really be a franchise QB the way things are going.