In 2000 when Bill Belichick was lifted from the Jets for a first-round pick and became the New England Patriots' head coach, he brought a lot of things with him.

Namely, he brought his wealth of coaching and football experience gleaned from his father, a renowned coach at Navy, Bill Parcells, his boss with the New York Giants, and as a coach himself, with Cleveland and, albeit briefly, the New York Jets.

But while he has also brought three Super Bowl trophies to New England, his lasting legacy throughout the league may be bringing the 3-4 back into style.

Belichick is hardly the first to utilize the system in the NFL—it first made its appearance in the NFL maybe 30 years before in Houston under Wade Phillips's father Bum Phillips* and, ironically, in New England—but he may be responsible for it finally sticking after it fell out of favor in the late 1980s and into the 1990s.

*sidenote her...

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