Me too. It is incredibly difficult to replace greatness.I’m incredibly disappointed.
Me too. It is incredibly difficult to replace greatness.I’m incredibly disappointed.
They should have just fired the guy who chose himThis is all pretty much Mac Jones’s fault.
Well done.It is what it is.
There is not only no reason to, there is no way to. They are firing Belichick but they don't want to call it that. So they have to do this "agreed to part ways" thing and then try to make it look like they are doing a favor by not holding him hostage when they don't want him.To me there is no reason to hold him hostage for any compensation.
To be honest Bill's individual decision-making and knowledge of the rules made some moments interesting, but watching the stale offensive football the last number of years while other up-and-coming organizations are more efficient did not make gamedays that interesting for me.I’ve always said I wanted Bill to keep coaching the Patriots because football is more interesting with him coaching my team.
Football just got less interesting.
Bill is so important to the franchise's history and I've defended him over time amongst other fanbases from all the familiar narratives, that I will root for him to win every game even against the Patriots.Win one more to silence the idiots
the best there ever was by a long distance. Bill put up with more shit than any great coach ever did.
SO grateful from this Pats fan who endured the misery of the late 60’s onward and all the near great teams of the 70’s.
At the Elks Club?Saban and Belichick, both within 12 hours.
Possibly the worst take imaginable. Well done.Let's all just stipulate that the Krafts did not stick the landing with the two GOATs. For all the good things they did to keep these guys together for 20 years, the end was pretty messy. (Could have been worse, but there are many scenarios where it could have been much, much better.) They also had two assets for which they received no compensation, which would have buffered things a bit. It's now on them to put things back together and bring the team back to SB contention.
I retract. This is a some next level junk right here.Of course Shaughnessy is on channel 7 news stirring up shit. “Bill and Jonathan don’t like each other. Jonathan wasn’t going to let his Dad be bullied by Bill into keeping him”.
We're only in the beginning of worst take season. You think they managed it well?Possibly the worst take imaginable. Well done.
Sad to see Bill go, but what a damn run.
I retract. This is a some next level junk right here.
I will not so stipulate.Let's all just stipulate that the Krafts did not stick the landing with the two GOATs. For all the good things they did to keep these guys together for 20 years, the end was pretty messy. (Could have been worse, but there are many scenarios where it could have been much, much better.) They also had two assets for which they received no compensation, which would have buffered things a bit. It's now on them to put things back together and bring the team back to SB contention.
I'm interested in this view. Questioning and criticizing how the Krafts managed the end of Brady and BB's time here just seems like such an obvious consequence of this to me. It was not the best way to do it.I will not so stipulate.
Yup exactly this! Still hard to believe someone else will be on the sideline that isn’t The Hoodie!This is really sad. The end of an era that brought so much joy to my family.
I wonder if any of their wind-up conversations addressed what BB thinks of Vrabel and Mayo.It's possible that the next coach will be an update from the current version of Bill, but it's certain the next coach will be a massive downgrade from the version of Bill that we had from 2000 to even 2021.
Yup. There's nothing the guy doesn't ruin with his touch.This is all pretty much Mac Jones’s fault.
To paraphrase Brady’s dad, it was always going to end badly. Otherwise it wouldn’t end. At least this is a dignified transition, but yeah…fuckin’ A.Was hoping for another year or two. This sucks. Had to happen sometime so best to just rip the band aid off. I was really hoping he would retire a Patriot. Seeing Brady as a Buck was strange but I always sort of imagined it. Seeing Bill in a Charger hoodie? I can’t imagine it. Fucking A.
Well, as has been noted here many times, so long as BB was willing to come back to New England and be the coach/GM in accordance with his existing contract, he held all of the cards (assuming the Krafts had decided to move on). The only scenario in which they were getting compensation is if he wanted to leave and they wanted him back, which just does not seem to be the case.Also, pure conjecture but my guess is that the “high road” included Bill insisting he would not be traded and that he would be released so he would not be losing a valuable pick in Atlanta or LA.
All makes sense. I guess it probably better than Robert is still alive and sentient at this pivotal moment than if Johnny was driving all by himself.I'm disappointed and I wish they could have worked something out where either BB stays another year with a GM, or BB is allowed to part on his own terms.
But honestly I'm not surprised either. This reeks of Jonathan being involved, honestly.
There is no separating things out that neatly with championships in football. It’s always coaches and players. Always.Bill won the first 3, Brady won the last 3.
GOATs. Such a pleasure.
My childhood is officially done. Pedro, Manny, Ortiz, Pierce, Brady, and Belichick are all gone.