Is it possible that our expectations for BB are too high? Greatness is what we expect from him in every facet of his job, he seems to have hit a patch of average/below average drafting and his QB succession plan didn't work out as well as most of us can see now with the benefit of hindsight. Greatness is a high standard and tough to maintain and for the compensation he is receiving I'm sure he expects more from himself (especially on the GM side). But we get BB as the coach too, and that guy is still kicking butt. Let's take these criticism's to their natural conclusion, BB gets fired because of them. I am not in way advocating for BB to get fired. But let's pretend that all the negative criticisms are true and Kraft felt the same way and fires BB. Is that the solution ? Who would replace him? Not just the greatest coach of all time during the salary cap era, but one of the best GM's in the salary cap era too. Who will follow in those footsteps? Will that person be free of mistakes? How many mistakes and growing pains will we have to "put up with"?
In regards to comparing him to a player: BB has 20 years of running this franchise at a level none has ever seen, I am not wanting to throw that away as if he has lost it completely because of a couple marginal drafts or because of a "less than perfect" transition from the GOAT QB. If a player is deemed unworthy of his asking price/current salary, he won't get offered a contract or gets cut, because the staff/BB decides their is value out on the market to cover for his loss. Can we honestly say that their is value out on the market right now that would replace BB? I'm not smart enough to know the answer to that question, but if I had to guess I would say "Not even close".
I hope this thread stays open because, I love reading all the criticisms of BB, Brady when he was here, Josh, or any other player or coach of my favorite football team. Because of my rose-colored glasses attitude, I typically learn a lot about the team through it, but usually it lasts a thread or two and then gets "talked out" and we move on. This seems different and it seems like some people can't get over the idea of rooting for The Pats without Brady or worse, with BB as the GM/coach.