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This is the best thing I've seen in a long, long time. Here are some quotes, but please, watch the whole video. Chris Collins made some excellent points:
"NECN's Chris Collins and Mike Giardi debate the topic on this faceoff. Mike Giardi says Red Sox skipper Terry Francona is the best, because of his two rings, and how he handles his players. Collins disagrees saying Patriots coach Bill Belichick is not only the best in town, but possibly the best football coach of all time."
On Mike Giardi's pick, Terry Francona:
"Is he the right guy for that job? Oh, absolutely right. Is he the best coach, manager, in this town? Absolutely not. You must be out of your mind. Bill Belichick is arguably the greatest football coach in the history of the NFL. Terry Francona is not even in the conversation as far as being the greatest manager in the game of baseball. It's that simple. How do you judge it? You judge it on a lot of criteria. A lot of different tangibles and intangibles go into it."
In response to Giardi wondering what Tom Brady had to do with it:
"I believe the last time I checked, Bill Belichick not only drafted Tom Brady, he was certainly front and center as far as the maturation of Tom Brady."
On Bill Belichick's history in the league:
"[He] may be the best X's and O's guy the game has ever seen. You go all the way back to his days in New York where those teams, those Giant football teams that won Super Bowls, especially that one that stopped that great K-Gun offense from Buffalo, that was Bill Belichick! And Belichick brought that same defense and that same attitude, and now after failing miserably in Cleveland, [I beg your pardon. There will be more to come on that here on this website this summer, but for now check out this NFL Network video on Jim Schwartz.] he has succeeded to a point where no other coach in the history of New England sports… [Giardi says something about Auerbach.] OK, maybe the great Red Auerbach; we could make that argument. But remember, there were a limited number of teams in the NBA playing back then. But in this day and age in the NFL with the salary cap … and with a league that's set up for parity, for this guy to have won three Super Bowls, to put a dynasty together like the Steelers and the Cowboys before all this cap nonsense took over, Bill Belichick not only is the greatest football coach here as far as the big four, [but] may be the best of all time in the entire NFL. It's that simple."
In response to Giardi bringing up the Giants coaching staff that beat the undefeated Patriots in Super Bowl XLII:
"We're talking about a body of work, not one day!"
Back to Francona:
"You can't argue with two World Series rings, but I'm not going to put him on the same pedestal as Bill Belichick when Bill Belichick is dealing with apples for apples. … Green Bay has the same amount of money to spend as New England. Baseball – when Terry Francona won in '04 he had a $130 million payroll, only second to the New York Yankees. So you're telling me that I'm going to make the case that he is doing a better job than Bill Belichick, who is going apples for apples? No way, no how."
To sum it up:
"Nobody is perfect, but when you're talking about the best in the business – we're talking about the best job here – nobody ever imagined that there would be another dynasty in football. … But to put him, Francona, on the pedestal with Belichick, Michael, not only are you crazy, you've absolutely completely lost your mind. BB is the man! And we are done."
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