Seth Wickersham
Auteur de It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness
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So, warts - the “*Gates”, the tensions, the Belichick distancing (at the end, Brady was done - “a few days after Brady signed with his new team, he wrote an essay for the Players’ Tribune, focused on endings and beginnings. He thanked Kraft by name. He didn’t thank Bill Belichick.”), the failure to cultivate quality WRs - and all - six trophies, an unmatched set of division and conference wins, unmatched trips to the show - this is well-sourced, dispassionately reported, and comprehensive look at one team that plays a game of which Wickingham says “A funny thing about football fans is that almost none of them actually understand what they’re watching, because the game some of them played in high school bears no resemblance to the modern, endlessly complicated sport.”
A few highlights:
“I think he would have been a great baseball player,” Galynn later said. “He was a catcher with a wonderful swing.” “I’m not as convinced,” Tom Sr. replied. “He could leg a triple into a single better than anybody.”
Hah!
“People always wonder what it’s like to be famous. This was it: you’re alone, it’s quiet, there’s space, and all of a sudden, it’s as if you’ve entered a surprise birthday party thrown for you by strangers.”
“He doesn’t hold grudges,” a friend of Belichick’s had once said. “He holds death. With a grudge, there’s a chance of reconciliation. With death, there is no chance.”
Wow.
On the videotaping of signs, Other coaches said they did it, but the Pats have the stigma.
“Most of Belichick’s charges emulated him a little too much. Something deeply psychological was at work. None of the coaches who had grown out of Bill Walsh’s tree had struggled to find themselves or to find success away from San Francisco. The branches of Belichick’s coaching tree seemed to grow toward the ground.”
Pretty much everybody who leaves NE - except Brady, and maybe Vrabel- either fails or is just mediocre.
“Many times throughout the 2017 season, Brady had wondered, Why am I doing this? […] and why constantly have to reread The Four Agreements to remind himself what really mattered?” Oh, my… that is an awfully bad book!… (plus d'informations)