BB's new book has no mention of Bob Kraft - admits shocking mistake

[Huckleberry1]

Gave a guy a chance no one was high on.. at the time.. with full power.. RK deserves mention. It's tasteless.

You’re right, Bill should have at least called Kraft a ****ing ingrate.

 

[Wozzy]

You’re right, Bill should have at least called Kraft an ingrate.

Or mentioned Jonathan making his life hell the last few years by involving himself in personnel and coaching hires through his proxy.

 

[Triumph]

Jimmy is just fragile, but he also had some pretty stupid plays that got him injured.

Jimmy should have been a model and done runway.

Modeling different outfits. Best hair, nails and skin people in the business.

With that said, SF’s OL has been horrendous in pass protection while he was there and it he continued with Purdy. The 49ers have ignored it for years and it has cost them Super Bowl’s.

The Pats may have run the Brady 2001 offense to shield him from harm.

Pass sporadically, run the ball, slow the game down, bend don't break Defense and Special Teams.

I don’t think Bill would’ve been fired had they made the playoffs with Brady and lost as early as the divisional round. But I do think Bledsoe would’ve gotten his job back as Brady was pretty rough to watch overall in year 1. However, I do think Bill would’ve been fired had they missed the playoffs because Bill defied Bob's request to get Bledsoe back in.

I read that BB put his job on the line to stick with Brady.

 

[Triumph]

BB not saying anything bad about anyone other than himself is in line with what we know about him. I can’t say I ever saw him talking ****. Shade thrown at reporters sure. This will be an interesting read.

Can you imagine the stories BB could tell about his career? I bet he could have spilled the beans on some shady antics throughout his travels, but he is not wired that way. Trust is too important to BB.

Modell and Cleveland alone could be a movie.

 

[TheRainMaker]

The Pats may have run the Brady 2001 offense to shield him from harm.

Pass sporadically, run the ball, slow the game down, bend don't break Defense and Special Teams.

He did this pretty much with the 49ers. He was very limited when when it was time to throw.

I read that BB put his job on the line to stick with Brady.

Pioli confirmed in the documentary he feared Bill and the FO was going to get fired had the Brady experiment failed. 31 out of 32 HC's would've put Bledsoe back in. And I admit, I was a Bledsoe guy who thought Brady was just a feel good story.

 

[Pape]

And I admit, I was a Bledsoe guy who thought Brady was just a feel good story.

. I had argued for putting drew back in... My brother said that the kid brady was special early on, after like his second start. ... I remember driving home after the last home game, telling my bro he was right

 

[Wozzy]

Everybody assumed and expected them to put the 100M dollar man back in... anyone suggesting otherwise is probably lying.

 

[Wozzy]

The Pats may have run the Brady 2001 offense to shield him from harm.

Pass sporadically, run the ball, slow the game down, bend don't break Defense and Special Teams.

I read that BB put his job on the line to stick with Brady.

Brady got the same kid glove treatment that Cassel, Jimmy, Brissett, Mac or any other first time starter got. You have to protect young QB's from themselves.

I'd say BB allowed JimmyG the most leash because Jimmy had been in the program 2 years, was a high draft pick and because he wanted to trade him.

I also think it was a mistake not to let Cassel showcase himself earlier and more often, because they might have squeaked out another win, possibly made waves in the playoffs and got a higher draft pick for him.

 

[NormZauchin]

always told growing up, If you don't have anything good to say about someone, say nothing.
BB followed that advice.

If Bill can't find anything good to say about someone who gave him complete control over the team and pretty much stayed out of the way until the last few years of a twenty-four-year tenure, then it reflects poorly on Belichick, particularly when he thanks his twenty-four-year-old "muse."

 

[TommyD4207]

Bill was a great coach and an adequate GM until he wasn't any more, whereupon he was justifiably fired. At no point was he a paragon of empathy or even of simple decency. I don't know why these distinctions elude so many fans. Bill is, as the man once said, what he is: nothing less, but nothing more.

RK has his faults - no question - but for Bil to exclude him from his book seems petty and childish to me.

 

[Lansdowne]

Everybody assumed and expected them to put the 100M dollar man back in... anyone suggesting otherwise is probably lying.

I was probably too young and naive to factor in Bledsoe’s contract, but I had seen Bledsoe’s play slipping gradually in the years leading up to 2001. I was good with sticking with Brady, the team just looked different with him running the offense. After that comeback against San Diego, I felt we might have something. It’s not hindsight, I just didn’t see Bledsoe ever returning to the form that brought us to the Super Bowl in 1996, and I wanted to see what Brady could do. I had no clue that Brady was a future Hall of Famer in the making, nobody did. But I was glad Belichick rode the hot hand at the time, and again maybe I was naive but I didn’t get the outrage by the Bledsoe backers. Maybe it was because of the optics of benching the guy they spent all that money on. But I didn’t care about that. I remembered Bledsoe fondly when the Pats were playoff contenders before then and I didn’t see that version of Bledsoe coming back. As for what I expected Belichick to do, I wasn’t sure. I thought it could’ve gone either way, but I was pulling for Brady. I was ready to move on.

I had irrational confidence in that team, to the point where I was baffled why the spread was so large for the Super Bowl. The Pats played the Rams tough earlier in the year and I truly believed they’d beat them in a rematch. Snow Bowl/Tuck Rule, beating the Steelers in Pittsburgh, it felt like a team of destiny. It was magical. I think I had irrational confidence in the Pats in general until they gave up that 21-3 lead to the Colts in the AFCCG 2006 season and lost to the Giants in the SB 2007 season.

 

[n1997y]

Brady got the same kid glove treatment that Cassel, Jimmy, Brissett, Mac or any other first time starter got. You have to protect young QB's from themselves.

I'd say BB allowed JimmyG the most leash because Jimmy had been in the program 2 years, was a high draft pick and because he wanted to trade him.

I also think it was a mistake not to let Cassel showcase himself earlier and more often, because they might have squeaked out another win, possibly made waves in the playoffs and got a higher draft pick for him.

For awhile Bill had a pretty good business model of developing backup QBs and flipping them for good draft positions.

 

[mnpatfan]

Bill's mistakes start and end with *hitty roster management the last several years in NE.

Poor drafting, not signing rostered players in positions of need (e.g. Meyers), and Bill's Mother of All of Mistakes: getting rid of Brady.

 

[Wozzy]

Bill's mistakes start and end with *hitty roster management the last several years in NE.

Poor drafting, not signing rostered players in positions of need (e.g. Meyers), and Bill's Mother of All of Mistakes: getting rid of Brady.

Were they really his mistakes?

Ownership, coaching and scouts must be on the same page in order to be successful and he "had that up until about the last four years in New England." - Bill’s own words

 

[Thelonious]

Oh look, the children are playing with cartoons. Adorable.

 

[Sect140]

We don't really know.

He got hurt in SF trying to be a RB.

He got hurt in the second game filling in for Brady while he was suspended.
Tore his ACL in 2018.
High ankle sprain in November 2020, he missed the rest of the season.
Missed two games in 2021 due to injury.
In 2022 he missed the last three games with a foot injury.

 

[pazrul72]

Oh look, the children are playing with cartoons. Adorable.

 

[Real fan 02]

. I had argued for putting drew back in... My brother said that the kid brady was special early on, after like his second start. ... I remember driving home after the last home game, telling my bro he was right

Looking through post.. why does it always seem to turn into a RK bashing... if he was a really bad owner he'd had said **** Boston, and moved the Organization to Connecticut or elsewhere.. I really think posters need to look at the whole Picture. It took RK, Bill and TB12 in uunison to sustain what we had for so long.. no one is perfect but all 3 men are important. Just My opinion Pape my guy!

 

[Real fan 02]

BB did not have full power until he won the 2001 SB with Brady.

BB did not want to give Bledsoe that big contract. Kraft did and it pixxed BB off the way Bledsoe disappeared in the woods of Montana during negotiations. Kraft wanted to take Brady out and put Bledsoe back in once healed, but BB objected and Kraft went along with it. If BB lost the Super Bowl or lost in the playoffs because of the QB (Brady) BB would have been fired.

If anyone is tasteless its ungrateful Baloney Bob and his nipping at the ankles hit pieces.

Why did Bill stay? He was treated so badly? No one can seem to answer this question. Highest paid coach in the NFL deservedly so.. money talks ******** walks.. money and power is what Bill had. Let's not get things twisted here. This ain't a BB bashing.

 

[Sect140]

Also in the book Bill says the Patriot Way did not exist. He says someone probably came up with the phrase and probably made money off it.