{"id":164506,"date":"2022-12-21T19:47:13","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/its-time-for-patriots-team-owner-robert-kraft-to-treat-bill-belichick-the-way-belichick-treats-his-players\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T19:47:13","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:47:13","slug":"its-time-for-patriots-team-owner-robert-kraft-to-treat-bill-belichick-the-way-belichick-treats-his-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/its-time-for-patriots-team-owner-robert-kraft-to-treat-bill-belichick-the-way-belichick-treats-his-players\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s time for Patriots team owner Robert Kraft to treat Bill Belichick the way Belichick treats his players"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For years, arguably decades, the ethos of Bill Belichick guiding the New England Patriots has been impenetrable: We do what’s best for the team<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Along with do your job<\/em>, he has embraced this principle through nearly every decision that has come to define the franchise. He espouses it in coaching staff meetings. Her reiterates it in corporate speaking engagements. He repeats it so often in news conferences that clips of him saying some version of the ideology can be found in nearly every year of his Patriots reign.<\/p>\n

If anyone were to question his dedication to it, they would need look only inside the roll call of Belichick’s rosters through history \u2014 a march of attrition showcasing his priority of cold calculus over sentimentality or blind loyalty.<\/p>\n

Start Tom Brady over Drew Bledsoe? Do what’s best for the team.<\/p>\n

Release Pro Bowl safety Lawyer Milloy just days before the start of the 2003 season? Do what’s best for the team.<\/p>\n

Spend decades trading, cutting or walking away from core players who were aging or threatening a salary-cap squeeze? Do what’s best for the team.<\/p>\n

The team’s future mattered. When it came to a difficult business decision, so many dynasty-building names didn’t: Milloy, Ty Law, Deion Branch, Asante Samuel, Richard Seymour, Randy Moss, Logan Mankins, Jamie Collins, Stephon Gilmore \u2026 and many, many more . In the end, long-term success or failure would never be wagered on one man. And for decades, Belichick was right.<\/p>\n

Then came Matt Patricia and the 2022 season. The moment when Belichick’s incorruptible doctrine of \u201cwhat’s best for the team\u201d was blindsided by his own hubris.<\/p>\n

Somewhere at the intersection of failing to have a plan for Josh McDaniels’ departure as offensive coordinator and overestimating his own ability to continually fit a square peg into a round hole, Belichick violated his credo. He failed to do what was best for the team, choosing audacity over logic and a coaching friend over a much-needed young quarterback. Prioritizing trust and familiarity over roster-building necessity.<\/p>\n