Looking at the Patriots 2023

If you could get a first round pick for Bailey Zappe, you'd do it yesterday, because he's not a starting QB.

Hell, if you could get a 3rd round pick for him, you'd do it.
No one is giving up anything for Zappe. It's a delusional concept. The Zappe fantasy is just a reaction to how awful last season went and the desperation to find something positive. Zappe played decent with a limited offensive package and a great defense, against two of the worst NFL teams. The last time he touched the ball, he threw 3 interceptions, fumbled the snap twice and had another three passes batted down at the line. All by the way in single half of football, he's fools gold.
 
And within a few hours RKK says he's always given BB what he asked for. Food Fight or simple misunderstanding what was said?

Individual perceptions of conversations can be wildly different. I can imagine a conversation where Robert Kraft tells Bill to be conscious of his spending but in the same breath, telling him to do what he needs to do and Bill walking away from it, saying to himself I can't spend.
 
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3-28. Never forget

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Right. Maybe Bru is trying to show everyone that he's not a complete Patriot's knob polishuh...to add some cred with the media or something.
I think it's a little bit of this as I was watching the segment on GetUp this morning when Bruschi made these comments. Devin McCourty was also a guest (alongside Mike Greenberg and Marcus Spears). McCourty loved it, Tedy took the opposing stance. Typical ESPN segment.

As far as Bill's comments, while I would have expected a different (better?) answer from him, I'm sorry... the man has the resume and he has earned the right to flex on occasion. This really is a non-story in March. Had he said it mid-season during 2022, that is a different story. But sorry, nothing to see here.
 


Love always Tedy but he's missing a hugely significant difference here.

Bill has greatly succeeded economically as he builds Championship caliber teams by not paying athletes for past performance alone. Knows when to cut bait and move on.

Athletes have a short shelf life, intelligence and intellectual skill do not

Bill is not an athlete with a short shelf life.

Bill is also always the first one to step up and take the blame for a screw up or bad loss personally and coaching wise. Always giving the credit for great things to the players.

Tedy is way off here.

Unless Bill is developing dementia or some other cognitive illness he is absolutely right with those words.

I'm fully open to evidence of such cognitive decline. Present it and we'll talk.

As a business owner most of my adult life I've heard the, "You don't do shit, we do it all" mantra many times.

Good luck with that.
 
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