lancerman
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The 3 big things that I think hurt Bill's credibility and led to his downfall.
1. The Butler benching. Whether you agree with it or not, we know that it was a divisive issue and it was a major breaking point for key players in their buy in for Bill. Particularly Brady and Gronk. It was a slow detoriation, but a detoriation nontheless.
2. Having Brady walk out the door without a proper replacement. I think a lot of us weren't thrilled when Brady left, but most of us irrationally believed that Bill would never go into a season with his pants down at the most important position if he was going to let Brady walk. People actually believed Stidham was going to end up being the next big franchise QB. Then Bill rushed to get Cam and Cam sucked. At that moment for me, it signaled that Bill either misread a situation or was willing to kneecap the team for some perceived sense in value for not getting a long term contract with Brady OR, more egregiously, completely underestimated how important QB was and really thought he could win with anybody and then started panicking last minute.
3. The Patricia hire. Everything else you could debate to some extent, though they did lose Bill buy in with the fans and players. It's hard to debate this. Everyone from the fans, to talking heads, to players, to other NFL executives went on record questioning that hire. It seemed like the whole NFL knew it was a bad idea except for Bill. He did it anyways, told us to blame him if it didn't work, and it didn't. So at that point you have to start to think Bill has way too much power to make an insane decision and he's dumb enough to actually make a decision that bad.
Those 3 were back breakers for him. It made it so he couldn't endure a season like this.
1. The Butler benching. Whether you agree with it or not, we know that it was a divisive issue and it was a major breaking point for key players in their buy in for Bill. Particularly Brady and Gronk. It was a slow detoriation, but a detoriation nontheless.
2. Having Brady walk out the door without a proper replacement. I think a lot of us weren't thrilled when Brady left, but most of us irrationally believed that Bill would never go into a season with his pants down at the most important position if he was going to let Brady walk. People actually believed Stidham was going to end up being the next big franchise QB. Then Bill rushed to get Cam and Cam sucked. At that moment for me, it signaled that Bill either misread a situation or was willing to kneecap the team for some perceived sense in value for not getting a long term contract with Brady OR, more egregiously, completely underestimated how important QB was and really thought he could win with anybody and then started panicking last minute.
3. The Patricia hire. Everything else you could debate to some extent, though they did lose Bill buy in with the fans and players. It's hard to debate this. Everyone from the fans, to talking heads, to players, to other NFL executives went on record questioning that hire. It seemed like the whole NFL knew it was a bad idea except for Bill. He did it anyways, told us to blame him if it didn't work, and it didn't. So at that point you have to start to think Bill has way too much power to make an insane decision and he's dumb enough to actually make a decision that bad.
Those 3 were back breakers for him. It made it so he couldn't endure a season like this.