I followed everything you spoke of in great detail and came nowhere near the conclusions you come to. So unless you shed some light on it using a bit of your precious time, I have to assume you are blatantly incorrect on all counts.
LOL... sure you did.
All Kraft did was step out of the way. In between those wins, he negotiated a **** CBA, did nothing about Article 46,
As shmessy has so astutely pointed out, Kraft getting more directly involved in the last negotiation has ultimately been cited as the reason why the deal got done. Meanwhile, the CBA has been nothing short of a disaster for the players (which is also their fault since they signed the thing). For reference...
Patriots owner Kraft lauded for role in talks
This is the same CBA which the NFLPA is ready to go to war over and one where they have no intention of extending for a variety of reasons...
NFLPA: ‘There’s not gonna be an extension of the CBA’ without changes
One of the biggest issues, from a Pats fan's standpoint (as well as that of the Ravens, Cowboys, etc.) is how it didn't address, at all, Article 46 in light of a commissioner that had already shown he was more than willing to lean heavily on it to administer his own brand of justice. We should know this better than most since the team lost it's quarterback for 4 games on the backbone of that same article because air left a football in cold weather...
With Tom Brady ruling imminent, we'll learn the power of Article 46
Article 46 represents the backbone of the NFL's case against Brady, and it states that commissioner Roger Goodell has the authority to impose this level of discipline for what he deems a violation of the integrity or public confidence in the NFL.
Because of Article 46, some experts have viewed the NFL's position as iron-clad.
The court later upheld Goodell's ability to level the punishment he did based on that very article which was left in a CBA that Kraft directly helped push through. Any other questions?
and continued to back, publicly I might add, the worst commissioner in the history of American professional sports.
Kraft directly backed Goodell's handling of the Ray Rice fiasco, the Adrian Peterson fiasco, and directly backed him when he punished Dallas and Washington over their handling of the uncapped year in 2010. He has been a very vocal supporter of Goodell before, and since, Spygate and Deflategate. Goodell has also came out and said, publicly, that their relationship has never been strained as recently as June of 2017. In 2015, the two hugged one another on the sidelines before the Giants game.
Bob Kraft: Goodell has been 'excellent' on Ray Rice; Pats won't sign him
While the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell have come under intense criticism since Monday morning when the latest Ray Rice tape was released -- with people asking if the league had seen the tape, and if not, why not? -- Patriots owner Bob Kraft stuck up for the league and for Goodell on Tuesday, saying his recent decision-making has been "excellent."
"The way he has handled this situation himself, coming out with the mea culpa in his statement a couple weeks ago, or 10 days ago, and setting a very clear policy of how we conduct ourselves in the NFL, I thought was excellent," Kraft said on CBS This Morning. "Anyone who is second guessing that doesn't know him."
Well, plenty of people have been second-guessing the league since TMZ released the video of Rice knocking out Janay Rice in an Atlantic City hotel elevator. On Tuesday, TMZ reported that the league never tried to obtain a copy of the elevator surveillance video from the hotel, even though Rice's lawyer apparently had a copy.
Roger Goodell, Patriots' Robert Kraft reportedly hug it out; could they resolve Deflategate penalties?
Keep in mind, this was after the Deflategate punishment was decided and he also embraced Goodell before the Pats/Giants game in 2015. Further, bear in mind that Goodell is probably the worst commissioner in the history of American pro sports.
I wouldn't have any doubts that he's also behind Goodell's new deal, either.
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/02/...ee-owners-to-determine-roger-goodells-salary/
And while this certainly isn’t breaking news, as it has been reported numerous times before, it still warrants mentioning: Patriots owner Robert Kraft is one of just three owners on a panel that determines the commissioner’s salary.
This is on top of publicly backing the good of the 32 over his own quarterback
Robert Kraft ‘reluctantly’ accepts Deflategate punishment, won’t appeal
“I don’t want to continue the rhetoric that’s gone on for the last four months – I’m going to accept, reluctantly, what he has given to us, and not continue this dialogue and rhetoric, and we won’t appeal,’’ he said at a meeting of the NFL owners in San Francisco.
“The heart and soul of the strength of the NFL [is] that it’s a partnership of 32 teams, and what’s become very clear over those two decades [since I’ve owned the Patriots is] that at no time should the agenda of one team outweight the collective good of the full 32,’’ Kraft said.
Brady WAS the agenda of this one team. Kraft made it clear that the good of the 32, his own words mind you, outweighed his quarterback. Luckily for him, Brady is too classy to say anything to his owner's detriment. We have no such obligation.
and capitulating during Spygate while letting the league and media run wild with their own narratives.
This has been widely reported on and I'll assume you need no links here. Spygate, to this day, is still misunderstood because Kraft never got up in front of the press and fought it. Unless you've looked for it, most people don't know that this was a minor rules infraction more for the placement of the camera than anything else and that it wasn't only the Patriots that were doing this. But you wouldn't hear about that because Kraft, and the team, was mum on the entire subject and quietly let the media and the league run with whatever narrative they wanted to. The team then lost a first round pick and was fined millions of dollars.
So yes, you can choose to blindly back Kraft because he's done some good things for the team. But it is absolutely undeniable (for anyone that can think for themselves anyway) that he's also done his fair share to the detriment of the team and the league. Any other questions?
