Supposedly it involved Butler and one of Bill's sons. It was a completely off the field issue and it would be personally embarrassing to all parties for the story to get out there.
The Butler benching was maybe defensible in the first half. By the second half you had nothing to lose. It was just being stubborn and everyone knew it. There's a reason so many players soured on Bill after that and even winning a Super Bowl a year later couldn't fix the relationships with Brady...
It's a crapshoot. The 2021 draft was supposed to be one of the best ever at QB. Lawrence ended up being the most mediocre generational prospect ever, the other 4 first round QB's are backups already.
Before that the 2018 draft was supposed to be a stacked QB class. Baker Mayfield became a...
Yup. If Daniels or Maye weren't at the QB position, they are like 15-25 picks. Very solid but plenty of flaws. Harrison and Alt would go top 3 if it was strictly best player available. They "could" in theory bust, but it would be a pretty big bust. If Daniels or Maye busted, wouldn't be anymore...
No. MHJ would have to be gone and we'd also have to hate Maye AND Daniels to decide to get Alt.
A tackle is important. But as a singular position it is not as impactful as either of those.
People don't want to accept that it became a binary choice between Brady and Belichick at that point. It wasn't a situation where Kraft could tell Belichick to keep Tom and treat him differently. Tom was no longer tolerating Bill's treatment. He wasn't going to stay unless significant changes...
He did. He said he said he sided with Bill and regrets it now. Bill made his own hit job. You had a bunch of guys who were Bill Belichick guys doing the hitting. Clearly a lot of these players felt a certain way.
So I can't verify it, so I won't put the details that could be untrue out there, but some people I know that work inside the building are strongly under the belief that Butler got benched over something personal totally off the field between Butler and Belichick's son. So Kraft's statement made...
Every year this fanbase hears about them kicking the tires on a WR, they sign somewhere else, the fan base celebrates avoiding an “overpay”, spends the next regular season freaking out about the passing game being inept.
Rinse and repeat. Strategy isn’t working
The Niner’s were a good team minus the QB. The Patriots are not. Stroud helped the Texans take a big step, but even then they weren’t a team that had a real Super Bowl shot.
They aren't competing next year. You have the leeway to take a building block piece who can help whoever the future QB ends up being someday.
If they don't believe in Daniels, the other QB's really shouldn't be drafted any higher than the mid 20's. It's basically burning the highest pick in...
Kraft caved because he had no real legal recourse to fight the league. Brady did as he was a union member under the CBA and the union did have an interest in limiting unchecked power from the league office when it came to disciplinary matters. Kraft never even said he agreed with the league's...
Yup the first press conference he basically came out and said "uhhhh I don't know anything, you have to talk to Tom about the balls". From that moment on, deflategate became a Tom Brady centric story and people largely ignored Belichick. Yeah he did do the ideal gas law conference a bit after...
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