So here we go.
Set up for a fantastic finish.
It's a one-point game.
The Philadelphia Eagles trying to win the big game.
Huge play here.
Caught over the middle and into the end zone!
And time runs out.
For Bill Belichick, a Super Bowl loss.
For Tom Brady, just a phenomenal game.
Brady threw for 505 yards.
That's the most in any NFL post-season game ever.
Tom had the greatest single Super Bowl performance of all time.
Five hundred yards, right?
What did he do so well in that game?
You know, I mean, offensively, they...
they scored more points than we did.
So...
give their staff and players credit.
Do you feel appreciated for what you have achieved?
I plead the Fifth.
In 2018, the big focal point for us, the media, was,
"Well, what's gonna happen?" Because Tom's obviously pissed.
He's pleading the Fifth.
There's obvious rancor.
You could see that he couldn't take working with Bill anymore.
This absolutely felt like the ending.
The tension between Bill and Tom was clear.
I asked Tommy to come over to my house
and air out what was going on.
In the 2018 off-season,
you and Gisele went over to Robert's house.
Yeah, I mean...
What was that conversation like, and what were you guys talking about then?
Yeah, there... there... there are things that I'd like to keep to myself.
Look, there's no perfect relationship, you know,
and there's things that are said that... and are done that can't be said or undone.
Tommy and Gisele came to my house...
...and they were really upset.
I had Gisele say,
"That effing Belichick.
He doesn't treat my Tommy like a man."
She thought Bill was disrespectful to Tommy,
and that it was time to move on.
I realized how bad the situation was,
and I said, "Look, Tommy, if you want to go...
...I'll work it out so you can go."
Tom Brady's not going to be there
for the start of the Patriots' off-season program.
This is the first time ever
that he hasn't been at all the voluntary workouts.
I think it's fair to wonder, why is he not there?
Bill, Tom's not here today.
Have you guys spoken at length about...
I'm not gonna talk about the people that aren't here.
Not everybody's working, but all the guys that are out here working are improving,
and it's a great opportunity for them, and for our team to come together.
Come on, boy-boy.
You're gonna teach me how to drive?
Go here so I can take a picture of you in the sunset.
I look at, probably, the last six months,
it's been the first time where I've taken a little break
from what's been a cyclical monotonous.
I needed something different this year.
My family needed something different.
It wasn't a question of, like,
whether or not he wanted to continue to play.
It was just...
You know, probably started to think about
whether things could be done differently, you know?
Which I think was really hard for him, as well,
to kind of think about something else.
Because he loved New England.
His kids were born in New England.
He loved the fans and Mr. Kraft and the organization.
You know, we knew how to go in the back road to the stadium
to try to avoid a little bit of traffic.
This has been our home.
Daddy!
And so, despite these feelings of frustration...
...the thought of going somewhere else...
...just really didn't seem possible.
After missing voluntary workouts,
Tom Brady returned for mandatory mini-camp on Tuesday.
I'm here now and focused on what I need to do, as I always am,
and like I said, I'm looking forward to this year.
Tommy and I, we had a conversation.
And he said it was his intention to stay.
But we would have to make concessions...
...including getting Alex Guerrero back in the fold.
Alex Guerrero was now back on the sidelines
and also back traveling with the team.
This is a man
that had his privileges revoked by the New England Patriots.
You know, do we think everything is hunky dory?
I'm sure it's not.
All right.
Coach, what was the reason to let Alex Guerrero
back on the team plane?
Yeah, I'm not gonna get into all the responsibilities
of all the people in our organization.
We'd be here for, you know, a month going through all that, so...
Bill, you said you won't comment on Alex...
I'm not getting into that.
Bill was pissed.
All right, back it up. Put it on the 50. Two minute.
Let's go! Let's go!
We ain't got all day out here.
Allowing Alex Guerrero back,
it was the one time through 20 years
I really have stepped in and got involved.
For a head coach, all the relationships are very important,
starts at the top with ownership.
They can derail...
...you know, some positive and constructive progress
if those things don't work out well.
Bill felt this was really a questioning of his authority
and ability to govern.
But, you know, I had the greatest player
and the greatest coach.
I was gonna do whatever I got to do
to try to keep it patched together and make it happen.
Football is back! Welcome to week one of the 2018 season.
Patriots opened up training camp more than six weeks ago
with whispers of discontent, friction, and several questions.
Let's see how many they answer.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's meet your New England Patriots.
Let's go, boys.
Big half!
Come on, boys!
At that point in time, my dad understood
that this was really tenuous.
And keeping Bill and Tom together
had a chance to totally implode everything.
Hut!
Brady from the gun. Fires it!
And Gronkowski has it. Was he across the pylon?
Yes, he was. Touchdown, New England.
Go get another one. You guys doing good job out there, all right? Keep it up.
But both Bill and Tom seek motivation anywhere they can get it.
What a night in Foxborough.
The Kansas City Chiefs and the New England Patriots.
Brady floats one, caught. Touchdown, Edelman!
I guess that's why they call him the GOAT.
And I think the tension in the relationship
pushed each of them to sort of perform
in spite of the other.
The Patriots against the Bills.
Hey, the pass rush is what we want.
He's tried to throw us two interceptions now.
We're going to get one.
Intercepted!
Devin McCourty. How about an 85-yard pick six?
Bill Belichick. This guy's a genius.
- Let's go! - All right, good job, men.
Dev, that's the way to smoke it, man.
That's the way to smoke it.
Brady takes the snap. Drops back under pressure.
Slides up. Throws down the middle.
Catch by Gordon at the five. Turns to the end zone!
Touchdown, Patriots!
A lot of good things are beginning to come together
for the New England Patriots right now.
And another Super Bowl appearance would not surprise anybody.
Good game, man, good game.
- Good game. - Yeah.
We did it.
Today was a special day for Robert.
His 300th win. Quickest to 300 for any owner.
Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech!
Thank you. This is a great thrill.
You're the reason it happened.
And I hope we're all together for 400.
Yeah!
Sometimes I'm a little naïve.
And I hoped and believed winning was a special elixir
that would help Bill and Tommy's relationship.
But it was still unnatural and uncomfortable.
In that season, Tom and Bill weren't best of buds.
Let's go through the game plan today.
During our campus meetings, we go around and we talk about the game plan.
And every time Coach goes to Tom, you know, there's awkward silence
and... and tension there which you could feel.
And I'm thinking to myself...
..."Damn! Let me slide back, I don't wanna get in the crossfire."
But it's dime...
- It's Hill as the dime guy... - Yes.
Not... not McQui... not...
I mean, look, every relationship ebbs and flows.
He's got to make decisions that he thinks is best,
and I have my own decisions which I think are best.
You know, we just didn't talk a lot.
I remember times like, if Tom wanted something done,
he would tell me to go tell Bill.
And I'm looking at Tom, like,
"Tom, like, I'm not telling Bill, you tell Bill."
Basically, it was a silent relationship.
Before, there had been tension,
but now, it was just totally dysfunctional.
The AFC Championship game. The Patriots against the Chiefs.
You have the greatest quarterback, maybe of all time,
going against a young phenom, this year's MVP.
This is the game you want to watch.
Even though we made the playoffs,
I realized we couldn't keep Bill and Tom together forever.
Eventually, there could be only one,
either Bill or Tom.
Overtime in an AFC title game.
Now, right here, you got 3rd and 10, your season's on the line.
Everybody thought New England, going into the playoffs,
wasn't quite good enough.
If the Patriots are going to Atlanta,
number 12's gonna have to do something really special
in a really, really difficult environment.
Hut!
Tom Brady, with the season in his hands.
Brady's pass.
Complete. Edelman holds on.
Oh, my gosh, Tom Brady's got the ball to go to the Super Bowl.
Did you say, "Here we go?"
Brady. Down the middle. Edelman again.
Brady moves the chains with another big one.
Brady goes down the field to Gronk.
Wow, what a throw.
What a drive.
Hey! What more can you want than this, man?
Let's go win the thing!
A touchdown would win the game.
Burkhead into the end zone!
Touchdown, Patriots!
And they're bound for Super Bowl 53!
Yeah!
How about that Tom Brady?
Did you see that?
I've never seen anything like this.
Great fucking day!
They needed Tom Brady to be great.
No, they needed him to be more than great.
And whatever that is, he was.
Let's go!
His leadership, his willingness to embrace challenges
and to overcome them time and time again, this dude is something special.
Eternally and on the field at any given time,
number 12 has gone so far and above his competition.
Fellas! What do you think about that, boys?
Still here, baby! Still here!
- Pretty sweet. - Well, Tom,
I mean, you win the toss at overtime. Was there anything said,
"Let's go just right down the field and win this with a touchdown?"
- Anything like that said? - No. I looked at Josh, and I said,
"You got any touchdown plays on that call sheet still?"
He said, "Yes, I do."
And we just made some huge third down plays.
Guys just played their... played their butts off.
The line played incredible.
And the backs...
Tommy is the greatest in the 100-year history of the game.
And I think he represented a threat to Bill's full power.
He didn't want Tommy there.
Boys, pass it around.
JC, go get you some of that.
And so, when you come to the decision, you know,
Brady or Belichick,
I thought back to the Eagles Super Bowl.
Tommy threw over 500 yards,
but Bill made a tremendous error.
You got a guy in Malcolm Butler
who's arguably been your best defensive player for the last three years,
and he's not going to play at all?
You're damn right Bill Belichick got out-coached.
I credited Bill with that loss.
To be honest, my head coach is a pain in the tush.
But I was willing to put up with it
as long as we won.
So, for the next Super Bowl, I wanted to keep an eye on him.
Hello again, everyone. A very pleasant good evening,
and welcome to Super Bowl 53.
Let's go!
Brady and Belichick, it's the ninth time together.
Just absolutely preposterous to imagine.
Seventeen-year anniversary of the first one,
and it will be against the same franchise, the Rams.
The Rams, prior to Super Bowl 53,
their strengths were all.
Deep ball!
Oh, what a catch!
They were explosive, had a great offense,
and they were very well coached.
Yes!
Sean McVay is the best coaching hire in the last decade.
McVay was this boy genius.
Sean McVay, 33.
He'll be the youngest head coach in the history of the Super Bowl.
He was the next big thing.
The Rams are unbeaten through eight weeks.
- Give me a, "Whoo!" - Whoo!
They pretty much hammered everybody.
We knew it was gonna be hard to stop them.
Let's go, boys! You got this!
Belichick, the first to win five,
trying to make it six, trying to become the oldest to ever win a Super Bowl.
Going against Sean McVay, 33 years old,
trying to become the youngest to ever to hoist the Lombardi trophy.
Hey, Coach, just trying to look for you.
- Like, man, so much respect for you. - Yeah. Likewise.
Kinda interesting to be able to study these couple of weeks.
You guys are really good. You've done a lot of good stuff.
Appreciate you saying that. Feelings are mutual. I mean, just...
The way you guys are able to shift your identity
and still be able to figure it out, week in and week out,
it's unbelievable, man.
It's really a credit to you guys, so, so much respect.
- Thank you. - Appreciate you, Coach.
All right, let's get ready to go now. Let's get ready to go.
Let's ride!
Here we go.
All right, here we go.
Let's see if Sean McVay can go out there and out-duel Bill Belichick.
The Rams, they're the best team on offense.
They're the best team in the NFL.
Going into the game, they said, "Rams, offense too good.
Sean McVay is unstoppable."
But what they didn't realize,
Bill was always finding the edge that most people wouldn't think about.
Leading up to the game, he watched film and was able to figure out
the Rams had a hard time playing against zone defense.
For 18 regular season games
you couldn't find us playing this style of defense.
But Bill was like, "All right, let's switch to zone."
Over the course of two weeks,
Bill asked those players to morph into a different style.
There are defensive coordinators in football
who do not make that type of change over the course of their careers.
It is a gutsy move that late in the season.
But his ability to, kind of like a chameleon,
change to attack a weakness
is really, I think, unmatched.
We did a lot of preparation and made some adjustments on defense.
But Eisenhower said, "Preparation is great,
but once the battle begins, you fight the battle."
The Rams have an opportunity to go down and take the lead.
Gilmore bats it down, denying Cooks.
I mean, this coverage is phenomenal.
Incomplete!
Good sudden change.
That's it. I can see McVay, it's definitely fucking him up.
All right, stay with that.
All kinds of time for Goff. He's now flushed out.
Belichick has just swallowed up everywhere.
Not today!
We on that ass! We on that ass!
When you show them something that they've never seen,
it's like, "Whoa! Like, where did this come from?"
It totally threw them off.
Goff steps up. Going for the big ball to the end zone.
Wide open receiver, Cooks, and the ball is knocked incomplete.
And if you like offensive football, well, too bad.
If you like defensive football...
You're having a grand old time.
It's the first Super Bowl ever without a touchdown in three quarters.
Let's see what the Patriots offense can do.
Down the field they go.
Gronkowski has it!
Hut!
Running it for the touchdown!
And the Patriots are up 7.
Hey, let's get the offense down here.
We're not allowing ourselves to get in any sort of rhythm.
But if we do that, we know how quickly we can flip the switch on people, all right?
So everybody take a deep breath.
Starting over. Let's go, okay? This is our drive.
This is the drive we get our ass going right here.
Here we go. You know how important this is.
Down seven, with the game on the line.
Hey, look, fellas, listen. We don't have much left here now.
We gotta get it right. All right?
We have no problems with anything. We just can't screw it up now.
If we're on it, they really can't beat us.
Make sure we got it right. Okay?
Make sure we got it right.
Bill Belichick, he wants this one as bad as he's wanted any one.
With all of this doubt that was hovering over this team.
The sort of infighting that was going on behind the scenes.
It's been a really eventful season.
Now the Patriots are on the verge of a sixth title.
Stay alert, stay alert.
At that point in the game, there was not much time left.
If they do hit a few plays and go down and score,
this game could really swing either way.
But, like, if we can go and shut them down here, we're going to win the game.
Here we go, this is gonna be a great drive right here.
This is what we've fucking talked about all year now.
Goff in the gun.
Takes the shotgun snap. Drops back.
Harmon on a blitz. Goff throws it to the right.
Intercepted at the four!
Gilmore comes up with it!
What a play by Gilmore! Let's go!
Yes!
And the Patriots have won their sixth Super Bowl title.
Yes, it's still a dynasty.
Special. Unique.
We're never gonna see this happen again. It's truly generational.
We got Coach behind you, Tom. Coach behind you.
Hey, congrats, man.
- Yeah, love you. - Way to go, I love you too man.
Thank you.
- Come on, let him go. - I'm coming out.
I tell you, this is Bill Belichick's greatest moment by far.
He takes 11 defensive football players and he painted his Mona Lisa.
I... I can't think of anything else to describe it.
God bless you. Oh my baby! You're the man!
I think to win the Super Bowl the way the Patriots did, 13 to three...
- Three points. Three points. - Three fucking points.
...Belichick had probably re-established in his mind that,
"Hey, defense can still win games.
We don't need to be spending all this money on quarterbacks.
We don't need to be trotting somebody out who's almost 44.
I can get it done."
- Coach Belichick, come here. - Yes, sir.
How did you come up with a game plan like that to stop the Rams?
Well, it's tough. They're a great football team.
They're very well coached. It's really about the players.
They competed today like... like champions.
- They played like champions. - How sweet is this one?
It's sweet. It's sweet, Jim.
- Congratulations. - Thank you.
Bill Belichick and the Patriots have taken yet another Lombardi Trophy.
After winning that Super Bowl, I thought,
what an amazing defensive job
our staff did under the leadership of Bill.
So, if I ever thought that Bill was losing it
as a head coach and couldn't perform,
he had re-established himself.
At that point, Tommy understood
that Bill would be the head coach for a number of years going forward.
Me and coach Belichick, you know,
we did what we loved and we competed for 20 years together.
But I wasn't going to re-sign another contract
even if I wanted to play until 50.
I knew that, based on how things had gone, I wasn't going to sign up for more of it.
Most of us know when we are not valued or appreciated.
And if you still think you have something in the tank,
and Tommy did, he just...
he just felt it was time to... to make a move.
He just wanted to see if it could be done a different way.
You know, not without loving Mr. Kraft,
not without appreciating
everything that this region and fan base and team had given to him.
But I think he wanted to see if he could...
play the sport...
...and continue to excel with a little bit more joy.
Tommy called to say he'd like to come over.
And when we walked into the room, he said,
"I've decided to move on."
And as soon as he said it...
...he started crying.
And... his crying...
...told me everything I needed to know.
He said, "I think we should call Bill."
And then when Bill answered, it was emotional.
It's 'cause, again, it was a chapter coming to an end.
And I expressed that to Bill too.
I would say that's kind of what I expected.
But you know, there's, you know, always kind of the...
You know, saying goodbye is always hard,
and you know I love... I loved coaching Tom,
loved having him in our football team, but at that point in time,
I think he made the right and the best decision.
Life is very imperfect.
And relationships are imperfect.
But...
I'm very proud of our journey.
It was hard.
But...
But it was great.
And the Pats will look to 24-year-old Tom Brady.
From day one, I've just approached it the same way.
That I'm gonna come here, work as hard as I can,
and hopefully it's the start of a successful, long career.
For a young man who'd been with us for 20 years,
I still remember him coming down the steps with a pizza under his arm,
a skinny beanpole,
telling me that he is the best decision
the organization has ever made in drafting him, 199, in the sixth round.
It's all on the right arm of Tom Brady.
Brady throws, got an open. Touchdown!
And Tom Brady has had a great game, as has the entire team.
And then watching him evolve and develop.
"Win" on three.
- One, two, three... - Win!
The goal was always to kind of win.
To do it two times in three years... It's crazy!
Celebrating those six Super Bowl wins...
...and just seeing it all end...
...to me, I thought, "Wow.
The greatest cycle in the history of the NFL is ending."
It was sad. It was very sad.
Breaking news today.
Legendary New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady
leaving the team with which he won six Super Bowls.
After 20 unimaginable seasons with the Patriots,
Tom Brady is saying goodbye and moving on.
He is ending his 20-year run with the only team he has ever known.
I found out Tom was leaving the same way most every man did,
and that was through the news.
I found out on Twitter. And I'm like, "What the hell?"
I found out Tom was leaving on the bottom ticker of NFL Network.
Tom Brady tweeting out he is leaving the Patriots.
The Patriots quarterback posting this.
"I don't know what my football future holds
but it is time for me to open a new stage for my life and career."
Yeah.
That was a tough one.
Patriots fans are slowly digesting the news
that Tom Brady will no longer be their quarterback.
I'm crushed, and I'm probably gonna shed some tears later on today.
Tom Brady, for whatever reason, chose St. Patrick's Day
to announce he's leaving the Patriots.
And for people from Boston,
this is like if Santa died on Christmas.
It was an emotional moment.
I had envisioned Tom finishing his career here.
But...
...you know, storybook fairy-tale endings
don't always happen in life.
We are being told that Tom Brady
is expected to be a Tampa Bay Buccaneer.
Okay! Okay!
He's joined by Rob Gronkowski.
I think some exciting things are gonna happen in Tampa.
It wasn't what I personally wanted.
I know it wasn't what my dad wanted, but it really had run its course.
It was just the right decision for him.
There's Brady's pass.
It's Gronkowski!
Back again!
Tom Brady, Super Bowl champion
for the seventh time!
He had already separated himself from everybody else.
What makes seven important is it is the one without Belichick.
Tommy, he just had a unique opportunity to crystallize his reputation.
And without Tommy,
we went through difficult times.
Oh, it's intercepted.
And the Patriots have missed the post-season
for the first time since 2008.
I could have got the kid from Foxborough High School to tell you that,
you know, you shouldn't have let Tom Brady go.
Three seconds left. Flips it back.
- It's picked off. - Uh-oh! Uh-oh! Oh, no!
- Unbelievable! - Oh, wow.
This might be one of the dumbest teams I've ever seen.
Is the dynasty over for New England?
Absolutely. The dynasty is over.
Do you have any regrets about how it ended?
Sure.
I would have liked to have seen the seventh Super Bowl as a Patriot.
Would Tom have remained a Patriot
if Bill had departed as head coach?
Yes.
I feel pretty strongly about that.
Yes.
To be honest, I didn't want to move on from either one.
But the point is,
keeping them together for 20 years
is the hardest thing I've done in my business career.
Nothing is perfect in this world,
as much as we would like it to be.
This is life. And it's what happens.
And how you deal with it and how you moved on.
Number 12, baby. Welcome home!
Three years after Tom Brady left New England,
the Patriots are planning to pay tribute to him.
The Pats announced today that they will honor Brady
at their home opener for the 2023 season.
That was a great Super Bowl.
How are you? Nice to see you.
- Nice to see you too. - How we doing?
- Thank you. - You bet.
- Appreciate it. - So sweet.
A lot of good memories in this office.
And you know what...
I've been at that desk, at that chair right there. God!
- We had a lot to say. - This here...
Where did that come from? Holy cow!
Someone sent it to me.
- Is that you, Dad? - I think so.
- Hey, guys. - Brady!
Good to see you.
The greatest of all time...
Tom Brady!
When you think about it, this dynasty was built in New England
and there's two constants. And we want to know,
who is more responsible for the Patriots' success?
Is it Brady or is it Belichick?
For me, I have to say it's about Brady.
Without Tom Brady, Bill Belichick has had generally no success at all.
The answer's clearly Bill Belichick is more responsible.
You could swap Brady out with an average quarterback,
Belichick would have still won a couple of Super Bowls.
Let's fucking go!
You know, I look back and think about all of the success...
...and when I hear, "Was it Bill, was it Tom?"
It's just...
It's disrespectful.
I think it's disrespectful to every player
that helped win a championship for the Patriots.
It's one of my core beliefs,
there's nothing significant in life
that can be accomplished as an individual.
It's always about the team.
You've got to have the right guys
with the right mentality.
Intercepted at the goal line by Malcolm Butler!
Everybody's got to buy in.
Everybody's got to be unselfish.
Intercept and touchdown, Tedy Bruschi!
You got to have the core group of men
who are gonna go down the same road together and battle the same way together.
Touchdown, Randy Moss!
That will sacrifice their personal lives for what they're doing.
Like, it's... it's uncanny. Like, it doesn't happen.
It's good! It's good!
Adam Vinatieri pulls a 48-yard field goal.
Everybody wants to go to the Super Bowl.
Not that many people really want to do what it takes to get there.
Move your hands and ride him out. Ride the fucker out!
All the lifting weights in February, the training camp,
those late nights, you're sitting there,
you're dog tired, but you gotta watch that extra reel of film.
I mean, that's the stuff nobody sees.
People say, "Well, there's no fun." Well, you know what?
Our fun, frankly, is being on that field
after the Super Bowl with the confetti pouring down.
Put your fingerprints on the Lombardi trophy.
That's the fun. That's the pay-off.
My objective in doing this
is to help bring the Championship to New England.
We didn't do this to be a doormat for any other teams.
When you think about the reinvention of the Patriots,
it is unfathomable to see what they have done.
Looks good!
Nobody would have ever thought that this was possible for that franchise.
And the New England Patriots
will be the first dynasty of the 21st century.
And now, after 20 years of dominance,
you have two people who can say,
"There's not a single person in the history of mankind
who was better than me at what I did."
And then there's a third one, Robert Kraft, who can say,
"I am responsible for keeping them together."
They rewrote history.
And so, no matter how you feel about how they got there,
it's a pretty good place to be.
All our lives take us on different journeys.
But one thing I'm sure of...
...and that will never change...
...is that I am a Patriot for life.
I love you guys so much.
Thank you! Thank you.
In the end, you look back and seeing that whole journey, you know...
it's perfect.
It doesn't need to be more than that.
- What's up, TY? - What's going on?
- I want to say I love you, man. - Thanks, baby.
My teammates, Robert, Jonathan, their whole family,
everyone I know so closely,
Bill... his family...
...I have unbreakable bonds with those people.
I've been through it all with them.
How we feel about playing for Bill Belichick?
Oh... yeah!
I have great love, respect, and appreciation
for all the people that have given so much to help the team.
I tried to help it in my way, but we all play a part in it
and we all need each other.
This team will be discussed,
scrutinized, celebrated.
What they've done, everything else pales in comparison.
It's, you know, an end of an era
that I don't think will ever be repeated,
at least in my lifetime.
Enjoy it, folks. You're never ever gonna see it again.