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I imagine the answer is more than 1.
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I imagine the answer is more than 1.
Well, said. The Pats managed their budget and roster for the long term and never mortgaged the future until the end of Brady's tenure. The team squandered a good amount of resources trying to patch a roster that needed a refresh. I like that the new FO is taking the same approach. Hopefully with more empathy for the players feelings this time.
Kraft says spend to the cap, but require it be done with a smaller cash expenditure.
I’m not so sure about that last part. During the season they seem to care about their feelings, but I’m not sure Chaisson or Hawkins feels like the Pats let them go nicely during free agency.
Managing expectations is hard. Chaisson seemed ok with the opportunity to re-establish himself, I am not sure about Hawkins. In any event, they can't be worse than the BB regime, LOL.
Agree. After the 2004 season, Brady was already put in the HOF by media and in the GOAT conversation with Joe Montana winning 3 Super Bowls in his first 4 seasons. Peyton Manning was the media's darling, but he was taking a lot of heat because he kept losing to NE. Posters seem to have revisionist history about Brady to push their narrative the defense carried him through 2006. Brady took his game to another level in 2004.
They aren't even reaching the playoffs. More on that below.
The Falcons and Browns weren't good teams. The Saints and Colts had down year, but the Colts went 6-10. The Pats benefited greatly from that. Had the Colts and Saints been like there were in 2000, that may have been enough to knock NE out of the playoffs.
He got to UNC on 12/11/24 and the Portal had opened on 12/9/24 and closed on 12/28/25.
I agree that the Krafts want to win.
An argument could be made with the NE Patriots' Forbes Valuation going from #3 (2024) to #4 (2025) being directly related to the hiring of Mayo as HC
Kraft squandered fan goodwill when he was looking for sympathy for having to spend so much money on fired coaches. The cost of another year where players, especially Maye's, development was stunted by ineffective coaching would have cost the franchise much more than having to pay off Mayo and his staff. Thankfully Kraft made the right call.
What good argument could have been made to keep him? There wasn’t a good one to be made to hire him before he proved himself a bumbling incompetent.
The Falcons, Saints, Browns and Colts all would have finished .500 had they not lost to the Patriots.
Teams keep awful head coaches all the time especially after one year. Look at the Jets with Aaron Glenn. Many of those teams do it because they don't want to pay two head coaches.
Wait. You are telling me that “some teams keep bad coaches” is a good argument to keep him? Do you honestly think that’s what the poster meant?
The Big Shield is not smart, just greed-driven.
Yes on the others, but the Colts went 6-10. That was shocking.
Meeting between Kraft, Mayo, and Wolf right before FA kicked in probably went something like this…
He's not perfect, but I don't think Kraft deserves quite as much heat as he gets from guys like Parcells and Belichick. Parcells obviously can't be expected to get over being overruled with no notice on the draft; Belichick acts (probably correctly) like Bob should have just given Brady the guaranteed years ("I know you can't bring yourself to treat Tom like the exception that he is so I'll do it for you").
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