Zolak & Bertrand: Portrayal of Bill Belichick in EP6 of “The Dynasty”
On Monday’s edition of Zolak & Bertrand, the crew dives into how Bill Belichick was portrayed in Episode 6 of “The Dynasty” and throughout the entire Aaron Hernandez situation.
I don’t think this should make Bill Belichick look bad…
Marc Bertrand: I think to this point, this episode, the Aaron Hernandez episode number six, is the one that makes Bill (Belichick) look the worst he has looked to this point in the series.
Phil Perry: Do you think that part of it is fair, the part about, well, why didn’t they trade him? Because that’s the part that I think a lot of people are looking at right now.
Marc Bertrand: Disagree, I actually disagree with that. I don’t think that makes him look bad. I actually think that idea and I think Robert (Kraft) expresses the idea at one point, that if he were playing elsewhere or got drafted somewhere other than New England, that these issues wouldn’t have happened for him. Disagree with that. Someone who was going out and raging on PCP and murdering people, that’s probably going to happen no matter where he gets drafted.
If they traded him to Seattle or to San Francisco, I think the same issues that plagued him here were going to play him somewhere else because that guy was messed up. I don’t think the friends were the reason why he was doing what he was doing. I think the whole friends element and being close to Connecticut have been entirely overplayed in his story, which is unrelated to the episode because the episode just focuses more on the stuff that did happen. So, I think they’re a little too hard on themselves when they think that his issues happened because he got drafted in New England. I think those issues would have followed him no matter where he was.
So I don’t think that Bill Belichick could have saved him and saved a life or multiple lives by trading him somewhere else. That kind of activity was going to go wherever that guy was and I think that kind of activity had been building. His past was something the team did know about and had knowledge of and was willing to overlook it. I think Bill looks bad in this episode because he was willing to overlook, never mind the off the field stuff that was happening at night when he was away from the team. He was over overlooking anything that was going wrong with him when he was within their four walls and that’s what players on that team expressed, including Deion Branch, including Wes Welker, including stories about Tom Brady having to throw Aaron Hernandez out of a practice.
This guy was a problem day to day there and Bill laughed it off and was willing to overlook all of it, according to their stories in this episode. He just had a different set of rules for Aaron Hernandez because he was blinded by the guy’s talent, and so he was willing to let anything go with that player. So the guy that is all about law and order and sticking within the rules and falling in line and getting in the program, turns out that Bill Belichick will crinkle up the program and throw it in the barrel for certain players and he was one of them. Look at where that led to. That all happened on their watch.
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FOXBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS – AUGUST 11: Head coach Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots looks on during the preseason game between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium on August 11, 2022 in Foxborough, Massachusetts. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images)