Seahawks got SB advice from source with conflict of interest

Gumby said:

Daring to respond to the Off-Thread nonsense….

Kraft is the owner, IMHO it’s 50-50%. If Kraft had said: “Bill, Tom is a Patriot for life. I don’t give a **** if I eat 4 years of salary cap with him as the 53d player on roster who can’t even be fit enough to practice. I don’t care if I go in cap hell after he retires. YOU figure it out how to keep him here.” It would have been done.

I am not sure tom would have played along, the outlook for that TBay ring was nowhere near the same as in NE. But they could have got it done before they gave him the no-franchise contract. After that they were on a one-way ALLEY (with no turns).

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One-If-By-Sea said:

Then the mystery is solved. Zolak talked to Mike Macdonald. No-one has a greater conflict of interest than an ex-player that presently works for the Patriots, and Zo is throwing Brady under the bus to divert attention away from himself. "It was Brady" - look over there, don't look at me. It was definitely Zo.

I win the prize.

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Tunescribe said:

Just the same, Zolak quickly rattled off a bunch of things specific to McDaniels' offense that Brady would be privy to, even seven years after he last played here.

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One-If-By-Sea said:

The more Zo talks about Brady, the more it looks like it was Zo.

It wasn't me, it was Tommy. Tommy did it.

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Wozzy said:

Bob gave Tom his walking papers, allowed Tom to become a free agent when the Patriots clearly owned his rights. That wasn’t Bill…

Also Bob brokered the peace when Bill was going to ship Gronk to Detroit for playing hardball over money. So Bob was involved in personnel and contracts, even if he never held a hardline or told Bill who to draft or sign. That all changed in 2021 when Bob said personnel was becoming a collaboration after just hiring Wolf.

The Krafts wanted better results from the draft, we all did, and that was within their rights to be critical… but pretending it didn’t happen now just so some haters can lay everything that happened personnel wise after 2021 in Bill’s lap is haterade.

Bill had total control from 2000 until 2020.

2021-2024 it was collaboration.

2025 it was Vrabel/Cowden.

This is how it happened, our shared life experience. What Bob said after it crashed and burned or put in a hit piece documentary doesn’t change the timeline.

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rkarp1 said:

why do you continue to say the same things, when they have been proven wrong time and time again?

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One-If-By-Sea said:

The more Zo talks about Brady, the more it looks like it was Zo.

It wasn't me, it was Tommy. Tommy did it.

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Wozzy said:

Be specific.

Everything I stated happened.

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rkarp1 said:

specifically
Bill had 1000% total control over every football operation until the day he was fired
you continue to say Kraft has said otherwise. Yet Kraft never did

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Tunescribe said:

Right. Probably because that made it easier for him to call the game knowing ahead of time what would happen. Also, without his wife around this allowed him to go on a bender the night before.

It all makes sense now, thanks. Here is your prize:

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One-If-By-Sea said:

That is it. His wife made him do it. Thanks for the award. I will hang it over my fireplace.

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PatsFan2 said:

You and Tune are killing me.

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One-If-By-Sea said:

Is it better than Wozzy calling Karp a liar?

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Wozzy said:

Bob gave Tom his walking papers, allowed Tom to become a free agent when the Patriots clearly owned his rights. That wasn’t Bill…

Also Bob brokered the peace when Bill was going to ship Gronk to Detroit for playing hardball over money. So Bob was involved in personnel and contracts, even if he never held a hardline or told Bill who to draft or sign. That all changed in 2021 when Bob said personnel was becoming a collaboration after just hiring Wolf.

The Krafts wanted better results from the draft, we all did, and that was within their rights to be critical… but pretending it didn’t happen now just so some haters can lay everything that happened personnel wise after 2021 in Bill’s lap is haterade.

Bill had total control from 2000 until 2020.

2021-2024 it was collaboration.

2025 it was Vrabel/Cowden.

This is how it happened, our shared life experience. What Bob said after it crashed and burned or put in a hit piece documentary doesn’t change the timeline.

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Wozzy said:

You’re a liar.

You were celebrating when Bob took total power away from Bill in 2021. Posts exist of this.

Now you’re pretending it didn’t happen. Laughable…

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One-If-By-Sea said:

Is it better than Wozzy calling Karp a liar?

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Gumby said:

If you are the (sole) OWNER, by Definition NO ONE BUT YOU has TOTAL CONTROL.

You can DELEGATE DECISION AUTHORITY, but implicit in ANY Delegation is that you can OVERRIDE that decision ANYTIME YOU WANT. Bob didnt want to in 2018-19. Hence, Tom walked

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Gumby said:

If you are the (sole) OWNER, by Definition NO ONE BUT YOU has TOTAL CONTROL.

You can DELEGATE DECISION AUTHORITY, but implicit in ANY Delegation is that you can OVERRIDE that decision ANYTIME YOU WANT. Bob didnt want to in 2018-19. Hence, Tom walked

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