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I don't know if that was meant as a diss or not. I feel like it was. But the reality is that it truly is a rare skill for an owner or manager to stay the hell out of the way.
It's not easy to entirely give trust to someone else, and Kraft may have learned that the hard way too. He's talked about his problems with Parcells and how he learned from that experience and how it would have been different if it happened today. If it wasn't for that experience, maybe the BB era isn't as successful as it's been. That trust was certainly tested after Kraft fired Pete for going 8-8, then saw BB go 5-11 in his first year, then drop his first 2 games the next season.
You see it around the league, with Jerruh, Snyder, Irsay, and Woody standing out. Meanwhile, the Krafts, the Maras, the Rooneys hire good people and leave them the hell alone. No surprise that those are some of the most successful franchises in the league.
I know it's fashionable to dump on Kraft, and there's no doubt he made a huge mistake in trusting Goodell. He ****ed up, even he admits it, and there's no changing it. And for some, there's no forgiving it. But that doesn't make every single good thing he does a bad thing, and it doesn't mean every single thing he does from now on should be painted as a bad thing either.
Kraft shouldn't get credit for wins that are a result of staying out of the way (doing nothing) when the credit clearly belongs with B&B.