The Super Bowl trophy is named after Vince Lombardi, the legendary Green Bay Packers coach who led his team to wins in the first two Super Bowls.

However, Bill Belichick said coaches can’t win games without the players and suggested the Lombardi Trophy be renamed after Tom Brady, who won an NFL-record seven Super Bowl rings in his career — six with Belichick as his head coach.

Belichick, the former New England Patriots head coach who is now the coach at the University of North Carolina, made his comments on the “Let’s Go!” podcast this week in a conversation with co-host Jim Gray.

“Maybe they should name it the Brady Trophy. He won seven of them.”

Bill Belichick, on the Super Bowl trophy

“Players win games. You can’t win games without good players. I don’t care who the coach is, it’s impossible. You can’t win without good players. You know, I found that out when I had [Lawrence] Taylor and [Carl] Banks and Harry Carson, Pepper Johnson, Jim Burt, Everson Walls, all those guys at the Giants,” said Belichick, who has won eight Super Bowl rings, including two as an assistant with the Giants. “And same thing when we got good at Cleveland and then at New England. I mean, it’s [Tom] Brady, it’s [Willie] McGinest, it’s [Mike] Vrabel, it’s [Tedy] Bruschi, it’s Corey Dillon, it’s Randy Moss, Troy Brown, Lawyer Milloy, Ty Law, Rodney Harrison. Those are guys that won the games, man. I didn’t make any tackles. I didn’t make any kicks. That was [Adam] Vinatieri that made that kick in 4 inches of snow.

“You got to have good players and as a coach, you want to give your players a chance to win. You want to put them in a position where if they go out there and play well, they’ll have a chance to win. That’s what Coach [Bill] Parcells taught me, is there’s always a way to win. You just got to figure out what it is, and you have to give the players a chance.”

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OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Offensive coordinator Todd Monken is finalizing a contract extension to remain with the Baltimore Ravens, sources told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler on Monday.

The new deal comes after Monken led the Ravens to their first ever No. 1 ranking in offense and helped quarterback Lamar Jackson to his best statistical season.

At the Ravens’ end-of-season news conference last week, coach John Harbaugh praised Monken for his work in his first two seasons in Baltimore.

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The Washington Commanders versus the Philadelphia Eagles: Two NFC East teams battling to go to the Super Bowl. It’s an outcome few could have predicted just a few months ago.

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ASHBURN, Va. — Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels, sitting on the bench, turned to a group of Detroit Lions fans heckling him Saturday, smiled and formed a heart with his hands. Washington had just been stopped on a fourth-and-1, and the Ford Field crowd was loud.

But all Daniels did, captured by WUSA-TV in Washington, was smile at them and form a heart with his hands and then deliver a 45-31 victory.

“I didn’t really say anything,” Daniels said. “I kind of let my play do the talking.”

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It’s that mindset Washington hopes results in a trip to the Super Bowl as Daniels will be playing in front of a Philadelphia fan base considered one of the most hostile in the NFL. The Commanders and Eagles play at 3 p.m. Sunday.

Daniels also is trying to become the first rookie quarterback to lead a team to the Super Bowl; five others have reached the championship game and lost. Daniels said earlier this week he wasn’t thinking about that, rather focusing on that day’s practice.

Nor is he worried about playing in another intense environment. After all, Washington has won its first two playoff games on the road. In those games, Daniels has thrown four touchdowns and no interceptions. He has an NFL-best 86.9 quarterback rating for the postseason.

“He’s locked in from the start of Quarter 1 to the end of Quarter 4,” Washington receiver

“We’ve played in some of the most hostile environments, playing in some of the biggest stages, and he’s treating it the same every week. I love that about him. That permeates throughout our team. … There’s a reason I feel he has a chance to be a really great player in the league.”