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New York Times bestselling sportswriter Michael Holley takes readers behind the scenes of the relationship that transformed the Patriots from a middling franchise to the envy of the NFL.
No head coach-quarterback pair has been more successful in NFL history than Bill Belichick and Tom Brady of the New England Patriots. They have won four Super Bowls, six AFC championships, and thirteen division titles. And now Holley takes us inside their relationship, dissecting how these men and their team came to dominate football.
Belichick, a genius as a defensive coordinator, had been a five-year flop as head coach of the Cleveland Browns. Upon his controversial arrival in Foxboro, though, he quickly began to remake the team at every level--scouts, coaches, and players. His bold, calculated approach had fans up in arms, sportswriters questioning his intelligence, and players wondering how long they would last on the team.
Meanwhile, buried down in the 2000 NFL draft, the 199th overall pick was a skinny kid from the University of Michigan named Tom Brady who many scouts thought would never succeed at a professional level. The lowest of the four quarterbacks on the team's depth chart, he appeard to be just one of the guys. Like Belichick, though, he lived for football, and he knew the playbook as well as Drew Bledsoe, the franchise quarterback. And when Bledsoe was injured in 2001, Brady took the job and vowed to never give it back.
The handsome Brady became a star, wearing hand-tailored suits, appearing in movies and on magazine covers, and marrying a supermodel. Belichick, with his trademark cut-off hoodies, was the opposite of a fashion plate. Together, the odd couple somehow rose above controversies and tragedies. Draft picks were lost, suspensions given, lawsuits filed. As their legends have grown, so have their critics, with some of those critics operating from NFL headquarters. Despite that, with Belichick's deft and brilliant strategy in the draft year in year out and Brady's exacting decision-making on the field, the Patriots cultivated an atmosphere of success and won a stunning 75 percent of their games together. Respected and reviled, Belichick and Brady have set the bar high for excellence in a league designed for parity. They have rarely been understood. Until now. Based on dozens of interviews with former and current players, coaches, and executives, Belichick and Brady is an eye-opening look at the minds, motives, and wild ambitions of two men who have left an indelible mark on the game of football.
- Sales Rank: #412821 in Books
- Published on: 2016-11-08
- Released on: 2016-11-08
- Formats: Audiobook, CD, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 13
- Dimensions: 5.63" h x 1.50" w x 5.25" l,
- Running time: 840 minutes
- Binding: Audio CD
Review
Praise for Michael Holley's Books:
"Enlightening...the best thing I've read on football in recent years...Superb."
―Peter King, Sports Illustrated
"A deeply reported, thoroughly engaging look at what it takes to succeed in the NFL."
―Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"Holley has written the ultimate book for pro football geeks. From the front office to the draft room, the author provides an intimate look at three NFL teams...and the men who built them."
―Publishers Weekly
"In War Room, journalist Michael Holley provides a fascinating account of how Belichick, and his top associates, Scott Pioli and Thomas Dimitroff, used the draft and shrewd trades to build the Pats into the envy of the NFL...Crisply written, the story moves along like a two-minute drill. It also sparkles with interesting anecdotes and tidbits....War Room is a lively, fast-paced insider's account that will please ardent and casual fans alike."
―Boston Globe
"Usually books like this, which put organizations on pedestals, do not stand the test of time. But Holley's book reads as well now as it did a dozen or so years ago."
―Hank Gilman, Forbes
About the Author
Michael Holley is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Patriot Reign, War Room, Never Give Up (with Tedy Bruschi), and Red Sox Rule. He was a Boston Globe sportswriter for ten years, and is the cohost of the Dale & Holley show on Boston sports radio station WEEI. Holley lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his wife and two sons.
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51 of 57 people found the following review helpful.
A priced-up wikipedia article
By Bob L
Michael Holley's first book on the Patriots was 2004's 'Patriot Reign', an excellent "fly-on-the-wall" account of the Patriots first Super Bowl win and the 2002-2003 seasons. Belichick gave Holley total access to the team at the time, and the result was a treasure trove of insight: whether it was an anecdote of Belichick chewing out the team, a breakdown of the Patriots infamous gameplan against the Rams in Super Bowl 36, or Belichick telling Tom Jackson how to anatomically handle himself, 'Patriot Reign' was the first definitive insight to the inner workings of the best NFL team in the modern era. At the time it was unparalleled access to the notoriously guarded Belichick, matched only by David Halberstam's 'Education of a Coach' (2005) and, more recently, NFL Film's fantastic "A Football Life: Bill Belichick" (2011). Holley also released 'War Room' in 2011, which was ostensibly about the NFL draft process, but was more so a recap of everything that had happened to the Patriots since the conclusion of 'Patriot Reign'. It was obvious Holley had less connections to the team with that book, but there was enough gold about Belichick's drafting methods to make it a worthwhile read.
Unfortunately, I cannot say the same about 'Belichick and Brady'. Holley has little, if anything, to say here. The book being sold as a treatise on the relationship of Belichick and Brady, the two men most responsible for the Patriots' success. It promises to explore "how they weathered controversies" (namely spygate and deflategate), and how they led New England to greatness. But the amount of pages we see Belichick and Brady together, working out a gameplan or discussing how to handle a crisis, can be reduced to almost one chapter on the 2009 season- and it's all simply paraphrases from the aforementioned 'Football Life' documentary. The rest of the book simply passively cuts back and forth between whatever Belichick or Brady were in the news for in a given season- including a lot of gossipy things that only the least serious football fan cares about. Holley also has this convoluted tendency to interject whatever the cultural du jour of the day was in whatever season he's discussing. For instance, there's a long aside about fears of cheating in sports, which he then links to Spygate in '07; or how Boston sports teams started winning again after the Patriots first Super Bowl wins, and what this means for the culture of the city. Its all meant to sound profound or socially compelling, but most of it feels, at best, hackneyed in lieu of anything real. At worst, it feels like a cheap way to pad the book (do I really need to be reminded about the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction again?).
To me, the most disappointing aspect was how Holley offers absolutely nothing new on the 2014 Super Bowl team. No inside story about the alleged tension between Brady and Belichick at the start of the season; nothing new about the Kansas City game or the subsequent run of wins that followed. Everything is a lazy summary of articles and interviews any hardcore fan has probably seen. Even worse, Holley uses the whole chapter on the 2014 season- a landmark year for Brady and Belichick, which tied them for the most rings won by any QB or Coach in NFL history, respectively- as a prelude to dumpster fire popularly known as deflategate. Now even for those of you who are dying for a deflategate rerun- and I can't imagine many reading this review are- there's nothing groundbreaking here. Its all just the same stuff you've seen a thousand times, the texts between the ballboys, Harbaugh getting pissy in the playoff loss, Grigson kissing up to the league, etc... Holley starts info-dumping this stuff throughout the whole chapter on 2014, and essentially the rest of the book is dedicated to it. Again, expect zero revelations about how Belichick and Brady chose to navigate this mess. In fact, all we get is some flimflam conjecture that only Belichick must have understood what Brady was going through, since Belichick went through the same thing during spygate. Quite the deduction, that.
The book concludes on the 2015 season, thus it doesn't even address the fact that Brady had to end up serving his suspension this year. All journalist literature of course is dated; it must be published at some point, and thus miss what happens next. But the only way to make the read still worthwhile is to have new things to say, things that other scribes at the time didn't know. 'Belichick and Brady' does not provide. It's obvious Holley no longer has any connection to the team (and given how Belichick treats him during his weekly segment on Holley's show on WEEI, I'm not surprised). But I'm lead to believe Holley wants you to believe he still has some inside connection, considering he tries to write with the same 'fly-on-the-wall' perspective he deployed in his first book whenever he can. For anyone who is aware where the material came from, this feels cheap. And what few stories I didn't know (like Ty Law selling Brady his apartment back in '00), were hardly revelations that the book's premise hints at.
I regret this purchase. What hints at being so much more, is essentially a priced up wikipedia article that lists the headlines concerning the New England Patriots, Bill Belichick, and Tom Brady over the past 16 years. I guess if you're a really casual fan, or if it's 100 years from now and you are interested in researching the history of American Football, this book might be for you. Otherwise, hardcore fans, skip with prejudice.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
I enjoyed this book
By Scott S.
I enjoyed this book, but it could have been so much more.
As I sat down to review this book, much of Bob L.'s excellent review on 10/12/16 rang true. The book is a breezy, season-by-season recap of New England Patriots history and personalities from 2000 to early 2016, with Bill Belichick and Tom Brady of course featured prominently in the narrative. For many Patriots fans, that will be enough. What it lacks, however is any kind of in-depth or close-up analysis of the relationship between the two or how to divvy up credit for their incredible run of success - which is what seems to be promised by the promotional materials for the book and what I think may serious fans most would love to read. There is some interesting discussion of Belichick's philosophy of roster-building, which involves "spreading the wealth" across the full roster rather than paying high salaries to a few superstars (all teams have the same salary "cap" they cannot exceed, so it's not that the Patriots are cheap). This approach extends to trading down to accumulate more, lower priced draft picks (or future picks) from other teams. Of course, this is already common knowledge to close followers of the Patriots, and these kinds of analyses are few and far between in the book. Quantitative analyses and statistics for the most part are ignored, other than to describe individual game results.
The author also misses opportunities to convey the suspense and drama of many of the incredibly exciting Patriots games over the years, as if their outcome was pre-ordained. For example, the final game described in the book is the 2016 AFC Championship game between New England and Denver. I vividly remember the final Patriots drive as they struggled to catch Denver. It included a long strike from Brady to Gronkowski on 4th and 10 followed by a 4th down TD catch by Gronk to bring the score to 20-18 Denver - the only Gronk touchdown I can remember without the patented Gronk power spike. It then all came down to a 2 point conversion that Denver successfully staved off. The thrilling game was much more competitive than the Super Bowl that followed. Another of many layers to the story was that a 2-point conversion was required because the Pats' kicker had earlier missed an extra point - no doubt influenced by the new rule championed by Belichick that moved the extra point try further away from the goalposts. Holley's version? Six bland sentences, concluding "The seventeenth and final Brady-Manning game lacked the artistic flourishes that many of the sixteen before it had. In the end, the Patriots made it competitive, but they lost 20-18." Granted, there wasn't space in the book to give an in-depth review of 18 seasons of games, but side stories about the Red Sox and Bruins certainly could have given way to a few more about Patriots games. And too often, just as suspense builds, it is dissipated by the author quickly moving on to the next topic.
In the end, the timing of the book is curious - there is no narrative arc or conclusion that the book builds to; it just kind of ends randomly, when the Appeals court overturns the lower court decision about "Deflategate." We see that Belichick and Brady are very competitive and very successful - but did anyone doubt that? Other than those facts, there's no thesis, no grand synthesis, no real unveiling of the mystery of how year after year the Patriots could have been so consistently successful in a game with a huge component of chance and luck. Shall we say, the end is deflating?
Still, if you want to learn more about the ins and outs of the Patriots, this covers a lot and is an easy read. If that's sufficient, I would not discourage you from reading the book. I truly did enjoy the it, even if I already had read much of the information in the press over the years.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Bought for my co-worker
By BigTangTheory
One of my co-workers wanted the book as she is a die hard patriots fan. Week later asked her about hte book, she said it was alright, she didnt enjoy it as much as she expected, but it was still good.. The read wasn't very exciting. She said it felt as if she was just reading small facts that you can find on google easily.
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