The docuseries “The Dynasty” is out on Apple TV and is a peek behind the curtain of the Patriots, and it begins in the 2001 season where it all began. There are some great clips from the games and some really good comments from former players, coaches, and front-office personnel.
The segment with Bill Parcells was intriguing in the sense that it was good to hear both sides of the story as to why he left NE for the Jets. Parcells and Kraft traded some barbs on the show, which wasn’t unexpected. As for Parcells not being in the team’s HOF, while I totally understand his desire to leave, spending Super Bowl week communicating with the Jets rather than preparing for Green Bay was unfathomable and unforgivable.
However, what he said about the draft piqued my interest in this upcoming draft.
“Kraft had no real background in football, and in his inexperience, took the draft away from me… I felt like some people who were incompetent were making decisions for the organization personnel-wise, and I didn’t like it.”
There were rumors of the Krafts “taking back their team” after two-plus decades of Bill Belichick running the show with impunity. And some people question if that is going to happen again. I spoke with one of our other Patsfans.com writers/podcast hosts, Russ Goldman, about this for some time. He’s convinced that the Krafts fully intend to make the pick at #3. And not Eliot Wolf/Jerod Mayo. I don’t subscribe to that, but it isn’t out of the realm of possibility. We shall see soon enough.
Another intriguing thing about the Dynasty show was the look back at the improbable Super Bowl XXXVI win. The different views of the plays from the field level were fantastic. But the entire premise of the show is “The Dynasty.” And I thought they glossed over the back-to-back Super Bowl XXXVIII and XXXIX teams far too quickly. No mention of the 21-game winning streak. No one had won back-to-back SBs until this year.
Those two Patriots teams each went 17-2, and there was plenty to talk about with each. And to spend less than a minute on those teams did the players and coaches a disservice.
The 2007 team, Spygate, and the Super Bowl loss to the Giants was a great if painful end to the episode. The comments from Randy Moss (“I’m a bad MFer too”), Donte’ Stallworth, and Michael Strahan were fantastic.
