No. I am a shameless Belichick apologist. He is the best coach ever to coach in the NFL. I will always believe that Brady matured under Belli and Belli was able to maneuver his way through the salary cap and free agency because he had Brady. Between the two of them they gave us twenty years of football excellence that you will never again see duplicated in ANY sport.
Kraft saw in Belli what he needed. Belli who? He hired him. Belli saw in Brady what he needed. Brady who?He made him his starter and kept him there when Bledsoe healed (you must remember the controversy that decision sparked around here. At least half the media and fanbase wanted Bledsoe. Belichick didn't waiver.) Excellence scaled up and down.
Belichick was the most integral piece to the Patriot dynasty.
He remains in my opinion the best in game coach in football. And also the coach who prepares his defense the best for each weekly opposition.
His weakness is offensive game planning. And more importantly he has recently failed miserably in assembling the players necessary to succeed in the 2023 NFL.
Keep him as the coach. Allow him veto power when "selecting the groceries" but give the job to someone else.
I think that he is a reasonable man and must understand how he has come up woefully short in assembling a group of men who can win in today's NFL. It shouldn't be hard for Kraft to convince him of that.
The anti Belichick crowd amuses me my friend. It's like they don't know what he accomplished in the era of free agency. It's like they think Brady was a superstar during the first three super bowl runs, and it wasn't about the running game and defense. Brady was the anti- Mac Jones, he was a great game manager. Brady didn't emerge has a mega start until 2007, ironically the year they lost to the Giants to finish 18-1.
And Brady didn't win their sixth SB either, when they defeated the Rams 13-3
Brady was absolutely the reason they came back from 28-3 against the Falcons, and he was sensational in their loss to the Eagles
I fucking love TB12, but it was Xs and Os that carried them for most of those years
PS: Fuck Mac Jones
Oh, and Bill owns 8 rings