Tom Brady Sr. says Bill Belichick is “the best coach in football,” but there is one trait that ultimately led to his son and the longtime Patriots coach falling apart.
After 20 seasons and six Super Bowl appearances, Brady left the Patriots for the Buccaneers and won another Super Bowl in his first year in Tampa Bay, but Belichick went 29-38 with the Patriots after Brady left. They finished with a losing record and missed the playoffs in three of the four years. .
“Bill’s tough,” Brady Sr. said. told the Boston Globe. “He runs the military system. It’s a different generation. Bill is a great, great, great coach. But his interpersonal skills are terrible. That’s the bottom line.
“How many times in ’15 or ’16 did he say he wanted to win without Tommy? When he acted without Tommy, he didn’t know what he was losing. All he lost was a quarter. Not just the back.
“Egos can get in the way of things sometimes, and I think that’s the case with Bill as well. Now he’s in a situation where he’s been crucified by everyone the last few years and the rose has lost a lot of its luster.”
Belichick parted ways with Kraft and the Patriots last month after 24 seasons and now finds himself without a job, only interviewing with the Falcons, who have hired Raheem Morris as their new coach.
Kraft put his trust in Belichick when the coach felt Brady was on the finish line of his career, only to regret it when he saw Brady win a ring with the Bucs.
The owner admitted to Brady’s family on Sept. 10, the day Brady returned to Foxboro to receive his post-retirement award, that he had made a mistake in allowing Brady to leave.
“He just said, ‘I made a mistake.’ He told us that in September,” Brady Sr. said of Kraft. “We don’t all make the right decisions, but he’s made so many good ones over the years. But I think it’s frustrating for Tommy to go elsewhere and win.” He didn’t win, he won after Bill said it was over.”
