Report: Patriots Owner Told Falcons Owner "Do Not Trust Belichick" During Coaching Interviews?

I know everybody up in New England is certainly in the middle of a transition era of course there was another article released this morning about Bill bich and the crafts and the future and what happened maybe down in Atlanta why Bill didn't get the job at Boston Conor definitely a little spicy at Boston Conor massive Patriot fan you read through the entire article what was this how is this and how did you come away from the entire thing uh so it's it's from uh Wickersham and uh Jeremy Fowler it was it was also put together by I don't want to get this wrong Don vanada Jr uh and very long article it goes very in depth about the hiring process of Bill and kind of how he was you know missed or how he missed out on a head coaching job um there are a bunch of stuff in there that kind of didn't really make sense one thing that has been coming out the biggest thing kind of I would say is that everyone is talking about how you know Robert Craft basically told Arthur Blank don't hire this guy okay he do not do it you you can't trust him in in that whole entire narrative between Bob and Bill which has been going on forever all the way I mean with the dynasty coming out and this article coming out it is kind of just a not not a another burial but it is kind of hammering home the fact that Bob and Bill clearly were butting heads at the end if not the entire time but in the article they 20 some years together at some point you know it's just like whenever Tom and Bill there was allegedly I think it's like I mean marriage 20 years think about any relationship for 20 years friendship business anything for 20 years a long time you you are going to realize like everything about the other person M so you see everything about the other person not just potentially the good you also find out about the bad there's maybe some deep situations that take place that were never really fully got over and then two decades is a long time doing work together but it does feel like this Bill Bob one is a lot different than the bill Tom one because the bill Tom one there was a lot of chat a lot of chat a lot of chatter a lot of chatter a lot of chatter and then Tom and Bill both were like I don't I don't I don't know anything about that love in this one there's a full documentary yes you know that the crafts are involved in and their money's behind and they're speaking in in the way that it painted it's like this one feels a lot realer than the bill Tom one but I think we can all understand after 20 plus years of success in the biggest league in the Earth on Earth with billions of dollars at play and Egos and Legacies and everything you could see how it could happen but this one feels realer than any of the things that we heard early which all end up being with the bill and Tom St yeah no doubt like when Tom talks about Bill there are plenty of Clips where he gets emotional he starts crying talking about what bich has done for him and everything like that and obviously you know I'm not going to say Robert CRA hates Bill bich like that is such a broad statement and like you just laid out for for that many years the amount of success that they've had yeah you can't hate somebody when you know they helped grow your business into what it is today but some of the things from it just clear did you take notes I I did write down some things just cuz I wanted to I didn't want to quote love this he he had notes yesterday in his brain about pandas you know for a few years now it's been about the birds now you got actually handwritten notes next to him because I want to make sure I get this right from an article doing its reporting and and just real quick the pan does no no notes in my brain that was just quick little thing that happened and but but again we're on we're on football uh so with Bel the bellich thing just him specifically with the job like they said that bill was blindsided that he didn't get the job I feel like that's kind of hard to believe the Falcon job this is the Falcon's job yeah that because you know if they're they were looking at 14 candidates one of those guys was a former interim head coach in Atlanta who's been in Atlanta who Arthur Blank knows so and we talked to Raheem Morris like if you were to sit down with that guy it would be hard not to be like yeah I'd run through a wall like that is our head co him boom so so like that aspect of it being blindsided who knows I mean that is something that bill will have to come out and say maybe he was hard to believe that a guy's that's been in the NFL since 1975 would be blindsided by anything but again that is one of the things the other thing that they mentioned and this was n in quotes or anything they just said in a sentence belich wasn't eager to work with Rich McKay I mean like I I guess I'm sure maybe that could be true but if they're just putting out Bland statements like that and people just guessing how somebody feels yeah he wasn't eager we we can say that because he probably wasn't eager to work with anybody I mean things like that are annoying and let alone throughout the entire article Michael Lombardi is quoted over and over and he goes on and on about how much you know him and Bill and what bill is looking for and also you know what who bill is as a person basically none of the quotes they don't really say where they're from I'm pretty sure 90% of the quotes that he talked about we're from this show this is an ESPN article or TI out so interesting that they wouldn't reference an ESPN but again again that that that is pure speculation that that is all speculation from me which they probably could have thrown in that article a couple times if it was speculation well if they're bearing Bill I'm happy we're not a part of it yeah amen amen and I'm glad we're talking about it because there are things if you were just read through that as someone who doesn't follow the NFL every day if you were to read through that you could just be like oh okay so Bill Bill hates the Atlanta Falcons and he was devastated by the fact that he wasn't head coach again who knows if that part's true the Bob craft stuff specifically so Arthur Blank you know he checked his references before you know making a decision or whatever and I assume that's how every single team does it they referenced right away one of his references was Bob Craft's son Jonathan Craft which if we've learned anything about you know Jonathan and Bill's relationship at least from just you know consuming the Dynasty and what has happened since bill has left the Patriots I I don't know if that is the most uh biased or or unbiased non-biased there it is who know I don't know those words I'm turn around a lot people who act like they're nonnormally very bias which makes you think bias might be the one that's like hey I'm I'm just walking the fence you might get the most amount of Truth whenever somebody just at least pledges their biases you know as opposed to acting as if nonbiased but then picking and choosing what's said and what isn't said well what he said is the truth yeah but what he withheld also true and then kind of paints a n so you know there's we're in that time right now think everywhere true and to be clear I am biased towards bill bich so you know here we are and I'm you know just what do you mean you got come on baby but uh the Bob Craft thing that we're on a Cincinnati we're on a Cincinnati mother but uh the the Bob Craft thing that does kind of give the reports a little bit of credibility is he mentions in there like hey in January when I talked with you know Arthur Blank I didn't say I didn't say a bad word about Bill like the things that they are claiming that he said in January the meeting after this is after Bill is gone from New England this is when he is you know interviewing down there he was like no I didn't say anything bad about Bill in January now anytime before January I I don't know if I said anything bad about Bill to Arthur before January so remember there was reports of uh craft coming out of an elevator and saying I got to go work with the big of my life exactly and they're like that he was talking about Bill bellich as he walked out of that elevator so what does that mean about the relationship between the owner the GM and the head coach it's obviously splintering and then there was rumors about what craft wanted to do with the roster what Bill wanted to do with the roster this kind of been bubbling and bubbling and bubbling feels like not a bad time middle of offseason not a lot of going on in the NFL draft about a week a week away there is some maybe new mock drafts coming out that we certainly will keep an eye on and everything like that but not a bad thing to just go ahead and know that the entire world is certainly interested in how this relationship went and then it sounds like it's a lot of alluding to or potentially Anonymous quotes and things like that yeah some anonymous belich source close to bellich Source close to craft Source close to blank a lot of that um you've mentioned the comment you know Bob walking off the elevator do you remember who wrote that book oh that was Wickersham that was wickerham okay so funny enough maybe there is bias on one side again this is just pure speculation and I am saying that is pure speculation because instead of just writing it in an article I will add on the end of my sentence hey that's purec maybe that is something that he is pulling from the earlier draft of his story uh but the whole thing obviously something happened you know between Bob and Bill that is clear like everyone knows that when it comes to this situation specifically it it would make more sense just from reading the article that maybe blank did go back to some of the conversations craft and him had you know in the in the past about Bill but like the idea that Bob Craft called up Arthur Blank and was like Hey if if you hire this you guys are you guys are screwed for the next 10 years you're going to ruin your entire building so like th that exact thing very hard to believe but the the previous conversations you could see coming into effect there with the bill hiring but again we Rahim Morris like this is we still don't know I guess I guess we're just going to continue to read more stuff about the two and if we ever get a chance hopefully to get to the bottom of it we will but how is there a bottom of 24 years worth of relationship you know there you can write about anything throughout those 24 years I assume there's some stories to be told about uh Ricky Ross performing at the New England Patriots Super Bowl party afterwards and I assume there's a moment where you know bill was flashing those rings and craft was D you know he's doing a full there had to be a lot of those as well happy to hear that hopefully they'll both kind of move on in separate directions uh but it continues to kind of linger and I know Patriots fans have gone from being excited about moving forward to being like what are why are we doing this to Bill that's kind of that's kind of what everybody's that's how New England Patriots fans are feeling as a majority not everybody but a majority yeah and it was just in New England this past weekend that still holds true with a lot of people where it's like hey why did they do this and a lot of people still extremely frustrated with the craft family as a whole a lot more Jonathan than Bob though just to be clear and it's documentary based yeah and it starts with the documentary absolutely and all reason to put out this wicked stupid doc at the moment in which you're doing it I heard that sentence four or five times we can do this 10 years from like right now it's just not uh that was too much stupid like we talk about it with you know Jordan in the Last Dance Like Jordan waited all that time and when did he release it kind of when LeBron hey LeBron passed Jordan like when that situation happened and so like as a Patriots fan I would have liked to see you know let's see how this Chiefs thing ends first before we remind people who the first chiefs were like that that's how I think New England Patriots fans would have liked to see that go uh Pac-Man as a person that had to play in the era of the New England Patriots during that time I did as well I think my perspective is one of like just awe and respect that they were able to win for that long it is so hard to win in the NFL the amount of personalities that you have to Wrangle and keep in One Direction the amount of Fortune that you have to uh kind of experience with injuries and everything and even if they did have injuries they were able to still keep going where everybody else would go I would like to remember those New England Patriots not by these documentaries like sham books and articles but by the greatness that they put on for 20 uh 20 plus years there's always going be asterisks on everything right they certainly have theirs the Chiefs are going to find theirs too if the Chiefs continue to go people are going to find they got to be cheating but there's got to be something going on different over there than everybody else how are we spending billions and making billions and they're beating everybody every single year but that Patriots team what they had for 24 years was special we just need to remember it that way don't you think Pat oh oh yeah we do need to remember that way I think he got with 10 14 Rings probably in total with all of the the Super Bowls and the a uh the championship so um lot of respect for what they did special teams was really big when it came to the pat they won a lot of games end as an all pro returner and uh as a guy who kicked and punted or whatever it's like what anytime you take on the Patriots it's like they're going to be so sound damn it and so disciplined and they're going to expose you especially if for try fake pun you know where everybody's moving and then there's only a center and a quarterback and the center from Stanford the quarterbacks from Montana both of them Absolute dogs but in that particular case certainly outnumbered and the Patriots get the ball laugh in our face and that's another bill bich moment where he's smarter than everybody these guys playing chess not Checkers it's like to try to act as if Bill wasn't you know and this coming from a biased perspective because I've been in a building and been lucky to watch a lot because of the position that I had you know I was able to watch a lot to be able to keep every training room equipment room and obviously they're part this entire conversation as well front office Scouts like everybody going coaches everybody going the same way for that long without being a distraction enough to Rooney it's like impossible to do so congrats to Patriots you guys you guys will get it again well you guys will get it one more

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Published: Wed Apr 17 2024