How the Patriots Dynasty Unraveled with Seth Wickersham

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🗓️ 29 September 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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It might be the most hyped regular season game in NFL history, as Tom Brady returns to New England on Sunday night to face his old mentor, Bill Belichick. For 20 years, the relationship between Brady and Belichick, along with owner Robert Kraft, was the foundation of the Patriots dynasty. And no one has covered Patriots dynasty, and divorce, like Seth Wickersham, whose new book “It’s Better To Be Feared” is the culmination of two decades of provocative reporting on that singular football partnership. Wickersham joins the show to share new details about the greatest dynasty the NFL has ever seen, and why, despite winning six Super Bowls together, all of it had to end. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So it's January 4th, 2020, and the New England Patriots are hosting the Tennessee Titans in the playoffs.
0:10.4	Seth Wickersham covers the NFL for ESPN.
0:14.2	And there was a weird feeling in the air.
0:16.2	It's a closer game than anyone realizes.
0:18.6	Tannahill, under center,
0:22.5	give Henry at left guard second effort, Henry.
0:24.7	Touchdown! Titans!
0:27.3	And we've got a tie ball game
0:29.2	with the point pending.
0:31.5	Tom Brady gets the ball at the end of the game.
0:34.1	He's moving the team down the field,
0:36.9	and everybody thinks this is going to be another
0:38.4	one of his patented drives.
0:39.7	Motions to the right to join Dorset. Ready drop back, short set.
0:43.2	A drone out of him on the far side at the 45-yard line.
0:48.6	A bunch of those this year.
0:50.2	There's been a couple of them tonight.
0:53.0	It just felt like the air went out of the stadium.
0:56.7	The Tennessee Titans have come into Foxborough and defeated Tom Brady and the Pats.
1:03.1	The future unclear for Tom Brady the Pats season has come to a close.
1:09.3	And after the game, Belichick comes to the podium, and he grunts his way through a 10-minute
1:14.6	press conference with a lot of awkward silences, because nobody can handle awkward silences quite
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