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Originally Posted by Mecca
(Post 13869940)
I really think Bob Kraft did something for the NFL because before he bought that team they were literally a laughing stock franchise and then they magically matter forever.
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Well, they did go to the SB in 1985, but after Eason got hurt and Douglas Flute got benched then cut, they were TERRIBLE for like 5 years. I remember Okoye fumbling against them on the first play of a game in a snowstorm...and we still beat the pants off them.
Whoever owned the franchise in 1993 literally lured Bill Parcells out of a handshake deal that Parcells made with Hugh Culverhouse to become the Bucs coach with the largest salary a coach had ever been paid for Big Tuna to come to NE.
They drafted Bledsoe and Bruschi and McGinist and Ty Law and Chris Slade and Malloy and Curtis Martin and brought in Meggett and Otis other 'Parcells guys'...
And they didn't suck.
Then, Bob Kraft bought the team in 1994...and he and Parcells immediately had problems...but the team was decent if inconsistant and Parcells lost to former protégé Bellichick in the 94 playoffs, who coached the Browns.
So when Belichick got fired from Cleveland, Parcells brought him to NE as Asst HC/DBs...and BBs main administrative job as Asst HC is to basically be liason between the Krafts and Parcells.
And this is when the Terry Glenn thing happened, and Parcells decided he was leaving at the end of the season no matter what...
And they went to the ****ing Super Bowl.
The way I heard it, Parcells made no secret he was leaving NE after the game, win or lose - BB said it was a distraction all week, and Parcells didn't even fly back with the Pats.
So they went to the Jets where BB was going to be HC but Parcells was to be "advisor", eventually Tagliabue stepped in and the Jets basically traded for Parcells and Curtis Martin. BB came with them.
Bob Kraft hired Pete Carroll, who had been fired by the Jets for Rich Kotite, who had less business being an NFL coach than I do, which is who Parcells replaced, but I digress...
When Parcells retired from NYJ, BB agreed to become HC of the Jets, and iirc actually was introduced as their new HC...
then Bob Kraft fired Pete Carroll to offer complete and total control of the NE Pats to BB...so BB quits the NYJ the same day he got hired to accept the Pats job.
The nucleus of the Super Bowl team he had coached 3 years previous was still there, as was Drew Bledsoe. They drafted Brady as an afterthought in the 6th round, Bledsoe got hurt week 2 of 2001, BBs 2ND season...
And you know the rest of the story.
A lot of divine providence there, I guess.
