If anyone would know just how dominant legendary New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor was, it’s New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick.

Belichick served as a defensive coach for the Giants during much of Taylor’s tenure in New York, so he got a first-hand look at the Hall-of-Famer for years.

So when Belichick heard that Dallas Cowboys linebacker Micah Parsons is drawing comparisons to Taylor, he had to set the record straight ahead of the Patriots’ Week 4 matchup with the Cowboys.

“I think comparing players like that, it’s not really — I would just say, I wouldn’t put anybody ahead of Lawrence Taylor, period,” Belichick said on The Greg Hill Show on WEEI in Boston earlier this week. “Now, maybe I’m prejudiced, but I mean, I saw that guy every day for over a decade and he tilted the field for a decade. So, until somebody does that — and there’s a lot of great players and I’m not taking anything away from anybody else, there’s a lot of great players that have been in this league, that are in this league. But personally, I’m not putting anybody ahead of Lawrence Taylor. Not yet.”

Belichick added that Taylor didn’t even play in the same type of defense as Parsons and also said that Parsons doesn’t actually play the same position as Taylor did.

“No, it’s a lot different defense than what we played in New York,” Bill Belichick said. “Lawrence played outside linebacker in a 3-4 defense. These guys don’t even have a 3-4 defense. Not saying they should, but that’s just totally different. … Parsons is really a defensive end.”

In his 13-year NFL career, Taylor made 10 Pro Bowl appearances and earned eight First-Team All-Pro selections. He led the league with 20.5 sacks in 1986 and registered seven straight double-digit sack campaigns between 1984 and 1990, helping the Giants win two Super Bowls along the way.

Micah Parsons is currently in his third season and has certainly shown signs of greatness, racking up 30.5 sacks through his first 36 games. But he still has a long way to go before he can be mentioned in the same breath as Taylor.