{"id":858981,"date":"2025-06-29T22:12:43","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/29\/bill-belichick-explains-his-failure-to-mention-robert-kraft-in-new-book\/"},"modified":"2025-06-29T22:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T03:12:43","slug":"bill-belichick-explains-his-failure-to-mention-robert-kraft-in-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/29\/bill-belichick-explains-his-failure-to-mention-robert-kraft-in-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Belichick explains his failure to mention Robert Kraft in new book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In his upcoming book, <i>The Art of Winning<\/i>, Bill Belichick made one very strategic omission. Patriots owner Robert Kraft is mentioned nowhere in the entire publication.<\/p>\n<p>During Belichick\u2019s book-tour interview with <i>CBS Mornings<\/i>, Belichick gave an arguably inartful explanation about the failure to include any reference to Kraft. Asked about the decision by Tony Dokoupil of CBS (and <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/bill-belichicks-girlfriend-shuts-down-a-question-posed-during-cbs-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">permitted to answer<\/a><\/span> the question by his girlfriend), Belichick said this: \u201cIt\u2019s about my life lessons in football, and it\u2019s really more about the ones I experienced directly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reminded that Kraft isn\u2019t even listed in the <i>Acknowledgements<\/i> section (Belichick\u2019s girlfriend is), Belichick opted for a blank stare before shaking his head, saying \u201ccorrect,\u201d and capping it all with a smirk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you feel like you were treated with dignity and respect when you were let go by Robert Kraft?\u201d Dokoupil asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, well, it was a mutual decision for us to part ways,\u201d Belichick said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe said \u2018fired.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a mutual decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Potato, <i>potahto<\/i>. If Kraft wanted Belichick to continue to coach the Patriots, Belichick would have continued to coach the Patriots. <\/p>\n<p>Clearly, there\u2019s animosity between Belichick and Kraft. Which is unfortunate, given what they accomplished together. <\/p>\n<p>Our guess is that the lion\u2019s share of the blame for the current state of the relationship likely rests with Belichick, who surely was offended that Kraft saw fit to separate from <i>the greatest coach of all time<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Randy Mongold <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMizgFBVV95cUxNSlBPMklvajd1V1liSmJ0YU9wTVp6ZjA5NjNFM0s1NHJ0djlDZHBSYzE0YnVRTklUUUNMNVJwaFdtNmNyWmxiZEF3VzdGVVA3bGcwdFVTN2dNT1N2OXp2bXVneEFRMGNscVVOOW5TWlFPdmdhYXlSWDMxNDN2d0RwTm9ub2hrN01uOHk5QThJSm5GTEVkTkh2R0htdHNHM1paZHcycnZqbGRKLWJRdXpOcjhTdjNRZmxUNVJaakhLY1R1aHhvR3BBMzhFTzAyQQ?oc=5\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his upcoming book, The Art of Winning, Bill Belichick made one very strategic omission. Patriots owner Robert Kraft is mentioned nowhere in the entire publication. During Belichick\u2019s book-tour interview with CBS Mornings, Belichick gave an arguably inartful explanation about the failure to include any reference to Kraft. Asked about the decision by Tony Dokoupil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":858982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28057,684],"tags":[13433,7135],"class_list":{"0":"post-858981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-belichick","8":"category-explains","9":"tag-belichick","10":"tag-explains"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}