Breer: Belichick’s fate was sealed after Germany loss
On Friday’s Toucher & Hardy program, Albert Breer of the MMQB.com joined the show to detail the dysfunction within the Patriots organization. He believes the Patriots’ loss in Germany was the final straw for Belichick in New England.
Bert Breer Joined Toucher & Hardy…
Parts of conversation abbreviated for clarity.
Fred: Bert Breer knew this was going to happen. We’ve been talking about Belichick being out of here for a year and a half. Hardy made a good point after the show yesterday. When that news broke yesterday, it was weird. It’s breaking news, but it’s a topic we’ve been discussing as if it were going to happen for six months.
Bert Breer: It’s weird that you can’t talk about how it’s going to happen anymore. And it’s weird how after this week, Bill Belichick is a lot less of a topic of conversation for you, right?
Fred: Uh, until he’s done coaching—
Bert Breer: —But, I mean, next week’s topic probably gets shifted to the whole [Jerod] Mayo thing, right? When is that thing going to get pushed over the goal line? What will that look like? But nationally, the Patriots become a lot less interesting, right?
Hardy: Sure. It was news yesterday, but it wasn’t a surprise, right? So now it’s time to react to all this. For all I know, you could’ve had this column written since the Germany game. And going back to your column, that’s kind of when I think things started going down a path where it was irreversible.
And I’m glad you brought it up in your column because of how important it was to Robert Kraft and how he attended the walk-through. He’s in the locker room. He’s doing things that he doesn’t normally do, expressing the importance, the impact and the gravitas of this Germany game. As you pointed out, it was a borderline clown show. And then Mac [Jones] gets pulled, and [Bailey] Zappe throws the interception. And it was an embarrassment!
Bert Breer: The dysfunction. One of the anecdotes that I had in there was the Jack Jones thing boiling over. I was told that he was really angry about being benched the week before against the [Washington] Commanders. And that was after he was late to the team hotel.
It’s just a guy who flat-out didn’t get it, right? And then, he came back against the Colts, and he hadn’t played well against the Commanders. So, I think he plays ten snaps in the first half and explodes in the locker room. And his teammates try to calm him down. That doesn’t work. They don’t play him in the second half, and he’s cut four days later.
There was a certain amount of dysfunction that happened in Germany. The team felt the pressure because Kraft was hovering over everything there. And people felt the importance of this to Kraft. And I think that was really—it was over.
I was even asked over the last month if there was anything Bill could do to save himself. My answer was “no.”
Nobody thinks he can’t coach. Nobody thinks that he forgot how to do the job. The problem isn’t that. The problem was staffing. The problem was filling the roster. There was nothing they were going to do in those wins against Denver and Pittsburgh or competitive losses to the Chiefs and Bills that was going to fix the dysfunction.
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