Jonathan Kraft not seeking Pats football ops responsibility

Curran: Jonathan Kraft not seeking Pats football ops responsibility originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston

Among the many insights into the end of the Bill Belichick Era that ESPN’s Seth Wickersham and Wright Thompson detailed in a lengthy article last Friday, one note about Jonathan Kraft stood out.

Amid the Patriots’ struggles last season, Kraft — New England’s team president and the son of team owner Robert Kraft — would “chat with staff off to the side” along with Kraft Group senior vice president of business affairs Robyn Glaser and “(ask) why the head coach (Belichick) had made certain decisions,” according to Wickersham and Thompson.

Some in the building took this to mean that Jonathan could be more involved in the Patriots’ football affairs post-Belichick.

“Word leaked around the office that if Belichick were gone in 2024, football operations would be split between Glaser and Jonathan Kraft,” Wickersham and Glaser wrote.

Our Tom E. Curran doesn’t see that scenario playing out, however.

In a column Monday, Curran wrote it was “indicated to (him) very strongly that ownership won’t be making football decisions nor have they been,” and that the Krafts have no desire to be like Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and his son Stephen Jones, who are very involved in the team’s day-to-day football operations.

Curran expanded on his reporting Monday night on NBC Sports Boston’s Arbella Early Edition.

“I couldn’t imagine this being any further from Jonathan Kraft’s dream job: running the organization in a football sense,” Curran said. “He does not want to have football operations responsibility, contrary to what was seen in Seth Wickersham’s piece.

“He wants to see results, but I do think — and this is to the Krafts’ advantage in a way that it wasn’t for the Joneses (Jerry and Stephen) — they found out what they don’t know, and they know what they don’t know, as opposed to guys like the Joneses, who took over and immediately big-footed the entire organization in terms…

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Publish date : 2024-01-16 14:23:17

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