The Patriots are still a media-spectacle even though they suck, and that won’t end anytime soon. The Tom Brady era was like a star, and we’ll be living beneath its radiance long after it went supernova.
The media wants Belichick gone bad. In typical media fashion, the drum-beat for Patriot fans (and everyone else) will be a blend of the true (“it was mostly Tom”, duh, a player on the field), and the ******** (tHe GaMe HaS pAsSeD hIm By), which will be given credibility when mixed with smaller things that actually have merit, like his drafting.
Aside from some possible lingering final-nail-in-coffin Patriot hate, which I don’t think is at work here, they just want this to happen because it creates two major stories for _them_ going into next season, and stories = cash for them, new beachfront homes for them, new sports car for them, etc.
If you’re watching ESPN, or the NFL Network, this really is all it is.
They don’t give AF. It’s literally just about clicks and views, now and in securing them for the future. There are dudes who made millions of dollars just supplying the masses with “Tom Brady secretly sucks don’t believe you’re lying eyes” copium for the non-Patriot fan jaded masses ripping their hair out of their heads after getting crushed by him again.
Story #1: a new head coach for New England. Will he fail? Will he succeed? Either way, dollars, dollarinos, $Dan Marinos$. We can excitedly get behind the new exciting chapter or spend it talking about what a **** show disaster it is and how the new coach doesn’t even understand elementary clock management. If they suck it’s a Kraft disaster, and if they’re good, there’s a new face/character/personality behind a new team in the NFL.
$$$$
Story #2: Bill Belichick as head coach of the, say, San Diego Chargers. Massive hype leading into the season for San Diego. League parity. Off season winners. More dollars, more dollarinos, more $dan marinos$. Then the results, which is more dollars, regardless of what way it swings for the Chargers.
Belichick + Herbert = $$$$$
They did the same **** with Tom.
Tom on the Bucs was a major cash-grab story for the talking heads, whether he failed or succeeded. They’re like little girls who just love putting dolls in new outfits. Tom in Tampa was an infinitely more profitable season-story than Tom with the same ole’ boring ass Patriots. It’s the gift that keeps on giving as both a disaster or a success.
The local media (which I watch sometimes from Florida now for lulz), like Felger & Mazz are the most shamelessly transparent about exactly this.
They literally don’t even try to hide it.
Felger is always openly *****ing on-air about Belichick not giving the media things to feast on, and how sick of it he is. I decided almost ten years ago that he very clearly isn’t a Patriot fan at all, in the even slightest, and just makes his money in a Patriot market. He could care less about the well-being of the team and is solely out for **** to stir. I mean, with him it’s really shameless and I remain amazed he has a genuine audience.
This dude spent YEARS saying Brady was washed, trash, terrible, and that it was the magical Belichick “system.” Felger wanted Brady gone because Brady gone equals cold hard cash for Felger. Drama, drama, drama.
Now he wants Belichick gone for the same reason. In two years he’ll be shamelessly saying how dumb it was to move on from the proven Belichick for whatever ****-show we might exchange him for, and he’ll just pretend like he wasn’t fighting to get rid of Belichick the whole time. Callers and audience participants will comment on the ‘Current Thing’ and give him a pass on formerly wanting want he’s ‘*****ing’ about that afternoon in regards to Patriots-suckage.
Occasionally, if someone brings up his previous stances, he’ll pass over it with a quick concession about being wrong and then return to his money-*****ing about the situation he wanted.
I’d mostly be down for a regime change just to turn the page on the Brady era and let a completely revised team-identity come about, but the more I hear media-people call for Belichick’s head in New England, the more I think he should stay just for spite.
Sports journalists can be among the worst variety of journalists because they thrive from chaos, and so love creating it.
For the media, moving Belichick to another team takes one NFL character and turns him into two, because whoever replaces him will also immediately be a huge ‘character’ in the league for them to discuss.
It’s all so tiresome.
