You mean when 2 years after winning their 3rd SB in 5 years and after 1 losing season, Kraft said this
“If you want to have a good, consistent, winning football team, you can’t do it in free agency. You have to do it through the draft,” Kraft said. “That’s when you’re able to get people of great talent — whether it’s Willie McGinest or Tom Brady — you get them at a price where you can build a team and be competitive. Once they get to their first contract, if they’re superstars, you can only balance so many of them.
“So really, the teams who draft well are the ones who will be consistently good. I don’t feel we’ve done the greatest job the last few years, and I really hope — and I believe — I’ve seen a different approach this year.”
And diminished belichicks authority? The 2023 team is 90% the transactions since the 2020 season ended, and that is when Kraft appears clearly to have instructed belichick to do things differently.
And let’s not forget the season after that last SB when the team started 10-1 allowing 14 or less in every win, the consensus argument is they lacked weapons, after Robert Kraft released Antonio Brown because of an article accusing him of something he was never charged with.