New England Patriots

It might still be too soon to call what is transpiring in New England a cold war, but the Robert Kraft–Bill Belichick relationship has certainly seen better days.

The owner appeared to fire another salvo at the historically successful head coach recently. Belichick defended the Patriots’ unexpected 2021 spending spree by pointing out how the team’s commitments from 2020-22 ranked 27th on average. The Pats’ 2021 splurge remains an outlier for the generally conservative franchise.

“Our spending in 2020, our spending in 2021, and our spending in 2022 — the aggregate of that — was we were 27th in the league in cash spending,” Belichick said in January. “Couple years we’re low, one year was high, but over a three-year period, we are one of the lowest-spending teams in the league.”

This comment came after a question regarding the 2021 free agency period — and not necessarily a dig at Kraft stinginess — but when asked about a willingness to spend money, Kraft shot back to continue what has been a somewhat icy stretch between the two Patriot bigwigs.

“He has never come to me and not gotten everything he wanted from a cash-spending perspective. We have never set limits,'” Kraft said of Belichick during an interview with the Boston Sports Journal’s Greg Bedard (h/t to the Boston Herald). “Money spending will never be the issue, I promise you, or I’ll sell the team.”

From the new England Patriots official twitter account: https://twitter.com/Patriots/status/1673831071090368513

The New England Patriots are deeply saddened to learn of the sudden and unexpected passing of former quarterback Ryan Mallett.

Our thoughts are with the Mallett family, his former teammates and all who are mourning his loss.

To me it doesn't feel like a move Bill would make, I'm giving it a 1:20.

What do you think?

As the saying goes, they don't go to college to play school.

Sounds like a contract or effort dispute? I really don't want to see some no named LT trying to protect Mac in a pivotal season for him.

https://youtu.be/akx1hxv1Yko

So, who’s going to monitor mastodon.social and Twitter to give us patriots news updates?

Malcolm, Go!

Because not everything's easy, sometime you need to overcome the impossible

Ahh, feels like home already.