Brady has been thumping the Bills for 15 years. Bills fans blame dysfunctional management, poor drafting, bad coaching, etc... as a main reason why the Bills haven’t been in the playoffs for 17 years.
But the simple fact is - if Brady and Belichek had somehow wound up in the NFC instead, and the Bills instead played an average New England team twice a year, the Bills would have made the playoffs at very least 2 times and probably more, during this period.
I agree. Every team in the AFC East would likely have better stats if that were true (except the Pats, of course), at least some of the time. And by extension, the rest of the AFC to a lesser degree. It has been a great decade and a half to be a Pats fan.