This is my take from the last 20 years on SoSH and the "Dynasty" series:
1 - There was a huge struggle between BB, Brady and Kraft by 2016 or so, Kraft made some very poor decisions at times but generally wanted to do what was right (outside of the Spa Incident)
2 - BB was and is a historic GOAT coach who couldn't adapt in a lot of ways, which ended his time here. His 2001-2018 era will never likely be reached again. I initially had at as 2016, but the 2018 pivot from man to zone from what they said was a genius move and a ton of work
3 - Brady went full on whacko with Alex and also everything else. I've said on here, he became a complete weirdo, not Schilling or Rodgers level, but he definitely was off the norm
4 - With a little bit of partnership and leeway, BB and Brady could have made it work.
5 - BB wasn't able to adapt (back to point 2) I get why he didn't around Alex since he's a concussion water fraud and has no actual credentials, but could BB have handled it better? I'm guessing he could have but we don't have all the details.
6- Gilselle's influence over TB is very apparent and always has been. I'm not saying this is a bad thing but from the "My Husband can't throw and catch the ball" to her being in the meetings with Kraft is weird. I'm not a multimillionaire but I can't see a situation where I'd bring my wife into a meeting with me, even if it's personal.
Finally and I'll get roasted over this I'm sure, but there were a ton of SoSH posters who said the Wickersham articles were all made up, every negative article was the media against the Pats, glad Mort is Dead! type comments.
If you go through my posting history I'm sure you can find me being wrong 100 times in terms of this, but in general it seems most of the things were mostly true from Jimmy G to the end of the Dynasty.
I know it hit a nerve earlier, but BB came off awful. It was partially because of the series but he didn't help himself. I know he was still coach of the NEP at the time, but there were 20 times where he could have given a human answer but chose to be difficult. Take off the tie and jacket, put on a hoodie and be yourself. You don't have to expose any team secrets or tell us what happened with Butler, but just be normal. He can be, everyone says he's a personable, funny guy. We've seen it as recently as the Pats HOF stuff a few months ago. He chooses to be a giant prick for whatever reason, it's not "for the best interest of the team" in this case, even when he was coach. If he spoke highly of Brady in the 2016 Super Bowl instead of just acknowledging Brady and then giving credit to the rest of the org it'd be fine. A simple "Damn, we were down 28-3, Brady even helped us get there with his pick 6, but we knew with the team we had we'd get back. Tom and the offense led critical drive after critical drive. Hightower put us back in the game with a. huge strip sack and the offense capitalized on it. James White also played a big role, it was a team effort but Tom came through for us"
Instead he acts like an ass.
Kraft was 100% self serving but I don't think BB or Brady did themselves any favors either.
SoSH was so hard pressed against Deflategate and the Wickersham article, the Trump stuff people seem dug in to prove they were right on their posts from 8 years ago. I was dug in on certain points, I was wrong about a number of them, but the media was more right than wrong from everything I can tell.