Bill Belichick must find an answer to the title of Tom Brady

Your move, Bill.

Even though we all know you’re not a social media influencer and have no interest in what you once called Snapface, you know the score:

Tom 1, Bill 0.

Or:

Tom Won, Bill 0.

Unless you were out of sight, out of mind on my friend Jimmy Johnson’s boat, it would have been next to impossible to miss reruns of Tom hoisting the Lombardi Trophy, Tom hugging Gisele on the pitch, Gronk dancing during the parade, on and on.

Out of respect for your own GOAT resume, this column won’t even mention the Brady last name twice.

This is not the age-old debate about who mattered most to the Patriots, Bill or Tom dynasty. I’ve always maintained that neither of you would have six rings in your safe without the other.

But Tom has seven rings now.

You have six as a head coach.

Tom has one without you.

You don’t have one without Tom.

It is by no means a case of kicking a man who has not been down since coaching the Browns while he is down, it is simply a fact.

Tom bet on himself and beat Bill in this seventh Super Bowl.

Tom won this seventh Super Bowl with Bruce Arians.

Bill failed to win that seventh Super Bowl – the two with the Giants under Bill Parcells came before Tom was in high school – with Cam Newton.

It sounded like an excuse from you when you said on SiriusXM NFL Radio, “From a salary cap perspective, we didn’t have a lot of flexibility at all. I think it was obvious on the Cam Newton contract [one year, $1.05 million]. But if anyone deserves a mulligan, it’s you, and there were those eight league opt-outs as well.

The perfect storm indeed.

But now there is a burden of proof on you that never has been since you became the GOAT trainer.

Because what will your most ardent devotees think if Tom wins his eighth Super Bowl championship – at 44 – and second without you … while you’re still sitting on your six?

It is right to measure the goats against the goats.

And listen, overhecap.com informs us that you have $ 62,778,756 in overhead space, a number topped only by the Jaguars, Colts and Jets. If linebacker Dont’a Hightower opts for 2021, that would be huge. And some forget that you infused new blood during your unexpected rebuild with 10 recruits in 2020.

Of course, left guard Joe Thuney and center David Andrews are free agents, so there’s that.

Mostly, of course, there’s the small matter of finding yourself a Super Bowl quarterback and a wide receiver.

Getting Cam to work properly, getting her more help than you got last season seems like the only way to go given the Texans’ stated reluctance – at this point – to trade Deshaun Watson.

You’ve always loved Jimmy Garoppolo, a reunion with him wouldn’t be such a bad idea, right now?

No trainer who turns 69 in April – you look good for your age, BTW, even if you’re not as good for your age as Tom does for his – is interested in any rebuilding.

You’ve made a living blocking out noise and keeping it out of your locker rooms, but Tom turned up the volume in and around New England. Because we are living in a what-have-been-for-us-lately? world, your natives are worried and angry about what you have been doing lately:

You agreed with Tom going out.

Tom thought the grass was greener on the other side, and that was definitely for him.

You didn’t even make the playoffs.

You traded Gronk and a seventh-round pick to the Bucs for a fourth round because he wasn’t coming out of retirement to play for you, he was coming out of retirement to play with Tom.

And win his fourth Super Bowl with Tom.

Let others count you. Not me. And it’s not necessarily because you’ll be more motivated than usual every year.

But maybe, just maybe, you will be.

Tom thought out loud that he expected to be better in his second season in the Arians-Byron Leftwich attack. The likely retirement of Drew Brees opens the door to an NFC South title for the Bucs.

In your AFC East, the Josh Allen-Sean McDermott Bills are now the team to beat until further notice. Brian Flores’ dolphins are on the rise as long as Tua Tagovailoa is the real deal. Rebuilding the Robert Saleh Jets is not a concern at this time.

Because you’re the GOAT, you’ve never missed the playoffs in back-to-back seasons as a NEP HC.

Now is not the time for you to do this kind of story.

There is only one New England Notice Board for you right now:

Tom 1, Bill 1.

Or:

Tom Won, Bill Won.

Make your move, Bill.