And if not for a blown call against Oakland in the playoffs two years ago, we'd all be sitting here wondering today if Belichick can win a big game in the playoffs.
So maybe Wannstedt will get one more year to see if he can get the kind of bounce Belichick did. Remember, Belichick was essentially Wannstedt in his previous coaching stop before that luck-tuck bounce allowed him to reinvent himself as a champion. Wannstedt's results don't put him in the same class as Belichick, obviously, but it just goes to show how thin the difference between genius and bum can be in this league. If Tom Brady's move had been ruled a fumble against Oakland, you know how many playoff victories Belichick would have had the past nine years? One.
