Is Tom The best of his time?

A quick poll would probably rate Bill B as the best of our times. But consider: Bill hasn't won in a decade and he's never won without the benefits of the pre-game-taping scandal.
And I for one, think the impact and the advantages of that scandal has been relentlessly de-emphasized because the NFL thought it tarnished their image.
Think of it, he's never won fair, he's never won without cheating.

TWO\; Bill has had several inherent advantages over TC. He's had the better QB, he didn't have to give up picks to get his qb, and his qb occuppies less cap than Eli. Those are significant advantages. Almost as much as taping an opponents secret run throughs.
Expand on the Cost paid for the QB's. We give up three picks, they get their qb with six round pick and keep five top picks. That's about nine players they get that we don't have and they surround a better QB and still we beat them. Then their guy takes up less cap so again right throgh their time they are able to surround Brady with better talent and still we beat them. And we not only beat them we go through the toughest roads to get there of any team since Bradshaw's Steelers go against Pastrioni Oiler's, Stabler's Raiders and Landry's Staubach's Cowboys.

Now add a weaker conference and a weaker division. Folks are going to argue that BB has won more games, sure he's got Buffalo , Miami and the JETS for six games a year. Then he's got the weaker conference too, then add i the better QB, he should have more wins.

I see Peyton with one ring,I see Rogers and Brees with one ring. They are better QB's than Eli and Eli has two rings or twice what they have. How can that be anything but the consequence of great coaching.?

When you look underneath the glitz of Bill, when you consider all the factors I think a real case can be made that TC is the best coach of his time.
With one caveat: you have to measure coaches as relative to their time. We are never going to see the kind of dominance that Lombardi achieved, there are many reasons for that not the least of which is the competitive nature of the modern game, the strength of schedule, the value of the draft, and the evolution of the sport that means that all the new things have been done and in a similiar manner the sypmphony orchestra reached it's peak with Beethovan and hasn't had dramatic improvements for 150 years.

Little noted but a great factor mitigating against long term dominance too is the injury bug. I can still name the 22 starters for the NYGteam of the fifties, the team that started the season finished the season and , in fact, lasted for a decade. Injuries are so high in the modern game that luck plays a huge factor and makes it darn near impossible to dominate like the old teams might have. And now the road to the playooffs is longer, that gives luck a bigger role too, one bounce, one super hot player, one call and more opportunities for those factors.

OK, you wanna disagree, you can't disagree by too much and the bottom line is this: We have been blessed. We have seen wildly exciting years, we have seen great triumphs in the most exciting superbowls of all time. There is no team that has had it as good as us, I wish the naysayers would put their shrill criticisms in context and understand how grand this trip has been and continues to be.