In my somewhat useless opinion…based on an article that may or may not be true.
Kraft deserves credit for buying the team and putting a great captain in charge.
Bill made Brady and those two were the reason for all of the teams successes.
Brady is aging, Bill makes a very reasonable decision to get the heir apparent ready. Brady took it personally and defied all odds and all logic and continued to succeed.
Kraft has turned into a billionaire playboy getting handjobs at parlors. Brady leaves and wins another Super Bowl.
Bill is pressured to draft Mac, and wants to trade Mac while he still has value. Isn’t allowed to - Kraft inserts himself into the process and everything erodes quite quickly.
I REALLY hope Bill finds a good home and wins another Super Bowl. He handled this entire thing with insane grace.
To me, the worst aspect of the article is that it did raise the possibility that Mac blew smoke up Robert's ass and then tried to play up his relationship with the owner as a way to undermine Bill when things got difficult. I still recall how Bill talked glowingly about Mac at the start of the 2022 training camp, and then quickly backed off his comments. It was easy to dismiss as "Bill being Bill" at the time, but clearly the Bill-Mac relationship grew strained real fast.
I remain skeptical that Kraft (either one) would have actually squashed a trade. Again, we are only hearing second hand info from anonymous sources, who may or may not have an accurate recollection of what went down, and may be leaving out a lot of context. Maybe Bill went to Kraft and said "here are some things we could do to improve in 2023", with trading Mac being one of them, and Kraft said he didn't favor it, but would not stop one if Bill found a trading partner. Or maybe Kraft went ballistic; we don't really know.
Wickersham has to generate clicks for his employer and for his own brand, and he's reporting what he's hearing from his sources. He is also going to slant things to make it appear there's epic turmoil and dysfunction in the organization because that's what people want to read. Reporters did the same to Dallas when Jerry Jones fired Jimmy Johnson, so it's nothing new.