Tampa

Fiscal discipline
100% product
The system is king; players are the serfs
But the system is designed to grow the serfs
Winning above everything
Morality is relative
Expectation can be self-fulfilling

 

Agreed and better looking cheerleaders

 

yup. Cheerleaders guaranteed to remind you of your sister. JR and Rosalind must be the ones who preside over cheerleader auditions every year

 

A hall of fame caliber QB will make you a winner consistently....

 

sorry to say it but they would not need a "hall of fame caliber QB" to win consistently. When an organization is run really really well and really really smart decisions are made (consistently) then above average QBs like matt castle, or probably even an average one would win consistently with the brilliant FO that's in place there

 

Yup... just look at Dan Marino.

Oops.

 

or Matt Cassel

 

clearly, that your defensiveminded head coach should be your QBs coach.

I feel confident that the last decade has given the Pats enough outilities to violate enough rules that there isn't a small checklist of things to do to ensure success.

 

The Patriots, Eagles, Ravens, and Steelers have a lot of things in common. They don't overpay to keep replaceable players, they draft intelligently (which also means not trading future picks for present satisfaction), and they do a good job of adding players who fit the organizational philosophy.

 

and yet the 2008 Pats team had a very different philosophy than the 2003 team. I mean, I realize this, like everything, is commentary on your dissatisfaction of this year but you can make anything anything. Doesn't mean that the Pats have done everything one way and one way only, or that any of the teams above follow only those tenets.