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Ex-Pats exec details meetings with Krafts in Belichick’s first season as HC originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
Jerod Mayo’s first season as New England Patriots head coach hasn’t gone swimmingly, nor did the debut campaign of arguably the greatest coach in NFL history.
Bill Belichick went 5-11 as Patriots head coach after replacing Pete Carroll in 2000. The new regime in Foxboro faced a myriad of challenges, including an aging roster and the lack of an identity as they adjusted to their third head coach in five years.
Belichick’s first season as the Pats head coach also marked Scott Pioli’s first season in the front office. Pioli served as assistant director of personnel in 2000, director of player personnel in 2001, and vice president of player personnel from 2002-08.
Just as 2024 has been a rocky season under Mayo, there were plenty of trials and tribulations behind the scenes in Foxboro before the Patriots’ six-Super Bowl dynasty. Pioli joined Tom E. Curran’s Patriots Talk Podcast to shed light on how he and Belichick collaborated with owners Robert and Jonathan Kraft, as well as other front-office leaders, as they aimed to turn the franchise around.
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“At least once a week, Bill and I met with Robert, Jonathan, and Andy Wasynczuk. Andy was the president at the time,” Pioli said. “We would sit in these meetings and talk about everything. It was a really interesting point in the relationship. Bill had worked with Robert previously as a defensive coordinator. They had a good friendship, they had a good relationship, and at the time, it was a rough season. That 5-11, there was a lot going on. The other thing was we were changing the culture. It had been this culture under Parcells, it changed under Pete, and then it was changing back. So we had some players that knew what the drill was going to be. We had some players that were in, some…
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Publish date : 2024-12-18 00:04:00
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