In Celebration Of Tom Brady, Bill Belichick & The New England Patriots

This report makes them look like complete idiots. Imagine watching Tom Brady practice and play every day for 20 years and literally just have delivered the sixth ring beating Patrick Mahomes on the road in the AFC championship game and then deciding he can’t play top level football anymore. Absolutely asinine!
Brady was conspiring in 2019 to join up with Miami.

He wasn’t coming back in 2020.
 
Brady was conspiring in 2019 to join up with Miami.

He wasn’t coming back in 2020.
Please. He only starting talking to Miami because Bill didn't given him a contract. He gave him 2 dummy years ...
 
The Dynasty from Apple TV celebrates the making of the Pats' dynasty in glorious fashion that Patriots fans will love for the first 4 episodes. But it has to make money for Apple so the last 4 episodes, while interesting, bring the drama that Patriots haters everywhere will love to watch. Kraft and Brady give their sides of the breakup but Belichick, unfortunately, is reluctant to give his side of the story on camera. He comes off looking like the bad guy Kraft wanted him to be because of it.

I highly recommend watching this series with an open mind so you can form your own opinions about what happened and whose agenda was served.

2 episodes will be released tomorrow.
 
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The Dynasty from Apple TV celebrates the making of the Pats' dynasty in glorious fashion that Patriots fans will love for the first 6 episodes. But it has to make money for Apple so the last 4 episodes, while interesting, bring the drama that Patriots haters everywhere will love to watch. Kraft and Brady give their sides of the breakup but Belichick, unfortunately, is reluctant to give his side of the story on camera. He comes off looking like the bad guy Kraft wanted him to be because of it.

I highly recommend watching this series with an open mind so you can form your own opinions about what happened and whose agenda was served.

2 episodes will be released tomorrow.
Don't have Apple and that is fine with me. We have enough streaming channels as it is. If we don't hear Bill's side of the story how can we have an open mind in only hear from the ones who fired him?
 
People should realise what this Dynasty series actually is, 8 episodes and 4 of them are dedicated to the "breakup". I mean, really....Brady and BB were together for 20+ years, and half of this series is dedicated to the final couple of years and the "drama" that unfolded.

This will not swing True Patriot fans, and they will see this as just another attempt by Kraft to sully his former head coach's reputation.

Kraft lost me when the reports came out of how he used to regularly diss Belichick in front of guests in his box at the games and it was so frequent that any attempt by Kraft to deny this holds no water because too many people heard him doing it.

At least Jerry Jones was upfront about his clash with Jimmy Johnson and said openly that he should have a say in the team.
 
By now you’ve probably heard all of the salacious details about players saying how the show presents how difficult it was to play for Bill Belichick and how Tom Brady wasn’t going to come back no matter what. That is certainly part of this documentary, and I understand that people are looking for someone to blame as to why the Patriots dynasty ended.

However, what this documentary does, and what I hope people take out of it the most, is how and why the Patriots were able to do what they did. Not for five years, not for 10 years, not even for 15 years, but for almost 20 years.

“I’m not going to allow other people to take away from something so special,” said quarterback Tom Brady in the show. “It’s perfect, it doesn’t need to be more than that.”

What was so skillfully done by director Matthew Hamachek was the weaving of the past and the present together.

He goes back to when Robert Kraft first dreamed of owning the team, and how his relationship with Bill Parcells shaped the way he interacted with Bill Belichick. He goes back to Cleveland, where Scott Pioli discusses the Bernie Kosar situation, and how, even though they were confident that moving on from Kosar was the right call, not having a legitimate replacement is what ultimately led to their demise — how that shaped the Tom Brady vs. Drew Bledsoe decision, and how, if it hadn’t worked, it very well might have ended the same way in New England.

The documentary also dives deep into the three main scandals of the dynasty. Spygate, Deflategate, and the Aaron Hernandez situation.

One of the reasons I think they did such a good job of handling the first two is that Patriots fans, as well as Patriots haters, will probably dislike the way the documentary covers Spygate and Deflategate. What surprised me the most about the entire series was how candid Robert Kraft was about Hernandez.

The Patriots’ owner was quite forthcoming the entire series, but really went into great detail about what happened with Aaron Hernandez, and the fallout that came from it. I would say that the only person who was a bit guarded in the series is Belichick, which isn’t particularly surprising. There are times that he is candid, but other times that it sounds like a Belichick press conference.

This will lead some to view him as the “villain” of the story, although I don’t believe that to be the intention of the film makers.

That said, The Dynasty doesn’t pull punches and isn’t afraid to discuss the lowest of the lows. The episode about the 2007 season is going to make you feel just as terrible as you remember feeling all those years ago. It also goes into great detail about the great times, and has a ton of previously unseen footage from inside the locker room and meeting rooms.

As someone who has been a season ticket holder since 2000, and has been covering the team for this site and others since 2017, I learned quite a bit from this series as well.

The last thing I’ll leave you with is this. The Dynasty isn’t The Last Dance. That was a documentary about the Chicago Bulls, yes, but it was mostly about Michael Jordan. The Dynasty isn’t a documentary about Tom Brady, or about Bill Belichick, or about Robert Kraft. It’s about the New England Patriots, and they make it clear the whole time.

This is a must watch, and, whether or not you walk away upset about how it ended, I think it will give a clear picture of just how incredible the partnership between Brady, Belichick, and Kraft really was — and how lucky Patriots fans were to have them in their lives for 20 years.

You can watch our exclusive interview with director Matthew Hamachek here, and you can watch the series, which will release two episodes every week for five weeks starting tomorrow, February 16, on Apple TV+.
 
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