People are going to accuse you of being a Bill Belichick apologist.
They’re going to call you a shameless Patriots fanboy.
All of which is true to one degree or another.
Which is fine by me.
Come at me, bro.
When you start taking flak, you know you’re over your intended target.
Which is nothing short of the best personnel decision in the history of decision-making.
So rip me for calling out the dishonesty of the whole series.
I apologize for nothing.
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‘I was like, “Man, this is gonna be great.
Like the storytelling, we’re talking about this, and we’re talking about that.”
‘Hey, we won at a high level, and guys stayed there.
Like I could’ve left two times; I signed back.
There’s reasons why,’ McCourty said.
Harrison agreed, adding: ‘It didn’t tell the stories like of me coming, and Corey Dillon.
Like, that’s it!’
Harrison continued, referring to the episode focusing on the team’s attitude during the Spygate controversy in 2007.
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Harrison argued that the head coach was unfairly portrayed in a bad light.
‘Think about this: He gave me an opportunity, a fifth-round draft choice,’ Harrison said.
‘He gave Tom Brady an opportunity.
He sent out a hundred-million-dollar quarterback when no one thought it was popular and started Tom Brady.
‘He gives guys who are the underdog an opportunity.
No one talks about that.
‘And I just don’t think that he got enough credit, enough respect, enough props, man.
This dude is the greatest coach of all time.’
His methods are difficult.
He is direct, to the point of being dismissive.
His unwillingness to speak openly and honestly costs him at times.
He can be guarded about what he’s thinking to a fault.
And by keeping team matters behind closed doors, he can do himself a disservice.
The lack of knowledge causes the public to assume the worst.
Resulting in a docuseries like this one.
And I don’t ask for much toward the man.
Only what Rodney said: Credit.
I ask nothing more, and I’ll accept nothing less.
There’s a reason McCourty and Harrison signed and re-signed to play for him.
The players who priortize winning over everything else, anyway.
Which is why his star players feel “duped” by how biased and negative it was.
And I couldn’t agree more.
But he’s got other worlds to conquer.
