Tom Brady Revel In Bill Belichick Earning Historic 300th Win As Head Coach

The New England Patriots defeated the Cleveland Browns, 27-13, and this win was actually Bill Belichick’s 300^th win of his career as head coach. The Patriots head coach is the third coach to hit this milestone, and George Halas and Don Shula are the only coaches with more wins than him.

Patriots owner Robert Kraft gave Belichick the game ball.

“It’s a great privilege to coach this team and to coach the guys that I’ve coached throughout my career,” the head coach said in the post-game press conference. “Fortunately, I didn’t play in any of those games. That’s a good thing for us, but I’ve had a lot of good players, a lot of great players and they are the ones that win the games. Had a lot of great assistant coaches on my staff through wins at Cleveland and certainly here. I was a part of those, but honestly players win games in this league and fortunately I coached a lot of great ones.” 

It’s interesting to note that Belichick had his first win as a coach of the Cleveland Browns in 1991. The Browns fired him in 1996, and he came back as a head coach for the Patriots in 2000.

“You know, it’s amazing to think that he coached for another place and they didn’t think he was good enough, and then he comes here and does a great job,” Tom Brady said of Belichick’s milestone. “He’s had a big influence on me. All the things I think he really preaches to us as a player is what we get out of him as a coach. His consistency, dependability, trust, confidence — all those things over a long period of time really adds up. So, he’s just a very stable figure when he gets up and speaks to us. It’s about trying to win games, and I think we all appreciate that.” 

“It’s amazing,” Phillip Dorsett said. “I’m just so blessed a part of it even if it’s just a small 2-3 seasons. I’m so grateful to be a part of it and to be coached by him. To be able to be here and say that I played for the New England Patriots during the Bill Belichick era, Tom Brady, I’m living the dream.” 

As always, Belichick is off to another win.

“Look, it’s always good to win,” he said. “It’s good to beat Cleveland, it’s good to beat anybody. It’s a tough league to win in. I’m proud of what the guys did, proud of what this team accomplished today, but we’ve got bigger goals ahead. We know the Ravens are going to be tough next week. They don’t care about this game or what I did or whatever anybody else did, so we’re going to have to turn the page quickly and move on to Baltimore.”