I don't think you understand what highly competitive means. He wants to do his best. Period. He wants to do his best. Do you think he wouldn't try as hard this year if the Pats had won the superbowl and the Bucs had gone 7-9? No, he'd try just as hard. What some other team did, what the Bucs did, is irrelevant. He doesn't need to answer what they did last year or what he did last year or what anyone did last year. He will make decisions for this year because he is driven to win. It's no different with Brady. Brady is going to do his best whether the Pats won the superbowl last year or went 7-9. Neither Belichick nor Brady are doing anything differently this year because of what a former player or a former coach did last year.
Belichick wants to build the best team he can with the money available, balancing this year and future years. He doesn't give a shit about who did what last year. We're on to 2021.
And Kraft also understands that the task at hand is to build the best team with the money available. Please stop with the Kraft and the money he spent. He said in the interview you keep misinterpreting that the Pats are in the business of winning. Every year he will spend to the cap, often juggling to spend MORE this year by juggling singing bonuses.
I think you know this, so I wonder why you think spending to the cap this year is different from any other year and why Kraft is upset.