There are questions over the way the Patriots will be run as an organization with Bill Belichick gone.
The former Pats head coach was relieved of his coaching duties last week, marking the end of a 24-year span during which he was also in charge of making personnel decisions. And he has since been replaced on the coaching front.
ESPN’s Seth Wickersham and Wright Thompson wrote a column following Belichick’s departure, suggesting that owner Robert Kraft and the rest of the ownership group will be more hands-on now that Belichick is gone.
“Word leaked around the office that if Belichick were gone in 2024, football operations would be split between [Kraft Group senior vice president of business affairs Robyn] Glaser and Jonathan Kraft,” it reads. “Patriots coaches and executives thought that “the Krafts’ meddling has got everyone spun around,” a source on the personnel side said.”
NBC Sports Boston’s Tom Curran has poured cold water on the suggestion, though, implying nothing could be further from the truth.
“I couldn’t imagine this being any further from Jonathan Kraft’s dream job: running the organization in a football sense,” Curran writes. “He does not want to have football operations responsibility, contrary to what was seen in Seth Wickersham’s piece.
“He wants to see results, but I do think — and this is to the Krafts’ advantage in a way that it wasn’t for the Joneses (Jerry and Stephen) — they found out what they don’t know, and they know what they don’t know, as opposed to guys like the Joneses, who took over and immediately big-footed the entire organization in terms of, ‘We’re gonna be involved in this stuff.'”
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Still, it’s been reported that the Patriots don’t plan to hire a general manager, at least not in a hurry. So questions remain.
