ClevTrev
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This is a perfect example of why the basic question in this thread is flawed. There are two primary flaws in this question:You have to credit the football architects like Polian, Parcells, Belichick for turning around franchises, it's not the owner or the star player. If you separate architect from owner from star player, over time it is the architect who continues to turn around franchises and create winners.
To assign responsibility for success to any one person is the first flaw.
The second flaw is attempting to identify an event representing when the "turnaround" occurred. Some think it's when Parcells came on board to coach the team. Some think it's when Orthwein was forced to sell the team when he couldn't get out of the stadium lease (had he been able to get out of the lease, the team would now be known as the St. Louis Patriots). Some think it's when Kraft bought the team that he forced Othwein to sell because Kraft wouldn't accept a $75m stadium buyout to allow the team to be moved to St. Louis. Some think it's when Belichick was hired away from the Jets. Some think it's when Brady was drafted. Some think it's when Bledsoe was injured allowing Brady to become the starting QB.
The reason for the flaw is that all these events contributed to the "turnaround." To isolate any one incident as the sole reason for the "turnaround" negates the strange confluence of all these events in contributing to the success of today's franchise.
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