This is where I am at. I think Kraft will have some tough questions and probably some suggestions for what he'd like to see and based on how he likes the answers/amenable Bill is to the suggestions will give us our answer.
I think this is exactly right, and I think this is always the way it was going to happen. There was never a chance it was going to be a black Monday firing. Whatever one thinks about BB staying, I'm pretty sure no one will argue that an unceremonious thanks for the memories was the way to go.
I think about all the noise in the media, and just shake my head. Not about any individual, but just about what the collective is tasked with doing. I have no doubt at all that sources told them that they expect a parting of the ways, but this is Foxborough. They've been pretty, pretty, pretty good at keeping the thoughts of anyone who really knows anything in house for a long, long time. And because of that, any report about any of this, to me, has always been suspect.
Someone posted this earlier, but they're more than words, It's a huge part what this organization's success has been built on, and is in black and white for all to see in the locker room, as well as what every member of the organization is told from the minute they walk in the door.
When you leave here...
Don’t believe or fuel the hype
Manage expectations
Ignore the noise
Speak for yourself
It's served them well, and while I have no idea where this all ends up (and of course there's probably a lean one way or the other at the moment for Kraft) but I'm as certain as can be that a final decision was not made in-season. It would just be completely out of character for the way this organization has operated throughout its existence.