Bledsoe show was good. Brought back a ton of memories from 2001 season and how divided fans were over Brady v Bledsoe.
Finally caught it today.
Illuminating, the family comments about Bill Belichick. "Baseball bats" and "race cars with coaches in the street" etc.
First, the wrongful, hateful contempt for Belichick. I liked, appreciated, and agreed with his very public, specific reasoning over Kosar in Cleveland...and again in this case, Bill went out of his way to describe the simple logic of his criteria in coming to a decision. Me? Personally? I would not have had Belichick's patience. I would think, and to the extent I could, say, "F*ck you, morons." Same as I would regarding CryGate, DefameGate, etc. etc.
Second, this makes Raymond Berry's behavior more understandable regarding Tony Eason. Now, Pats fans were not nearly as fond of Tony as they were Drew, but the same context exists about the player, his family, and ownership's financial commitment, if not emotional attachment.
Berry took the safe route. But also, clearly, he truly and deeply believed that Eason gave the team a better chance to win than Grogan or Flutie.
Which is completely insane, but whatever.
Third, we have to (again) give Bob Kraft credit. A LOT of other owners would have stepped in and overruled the coach. "I pay the bills, I'm the boss," etc. etc.
We had to go through all this, in order to finally win.