After watching all 10 episodes: in the end nothing really new.
The only way it could have ended differently is with BB going to TB after Atlanta SB, like this: “Look, I think I own you an apology. I thought you was losing it. I was wrong. If you still want to play until 45, well, lets find a way to do it together. JG is going elsewhere this next spring for the highest possible return.”.
It did not happen.
And then Kraft grossly mismanaged the timing of this whole thing, given the structure of TB and JG contracts.
Once you “force” JG out in fall 2017 and you win the Rams SB the year after, it makes no sense you do not move on from BB in 2019. Your choice is an angry, resented old coach (even if still great at game planning) whose judgment is clearly compromised, with no plan to fill the biggest hole in the history of sport. That’s crazy.
The other possible way to go was to let BB do his things and give the keys of the team to JG in 2018.
Good luck with that. But both would have had more sense than what Kraft actually did.
(disclaimer: I wanted BB gone for good after the Eagels SB - not out of emotions but because I thought, due to the objective dynamics in play, it was the more logic thing to do. One year too early, indeed. But again, not moving on at least in 2019 was the worst possible choice).
PS: Deion Branch talking Hernandez is chilling.
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