Much has been said and written from folks on the outside about The Dynasty: The New England Patriots. A couple of guys who were on the inside with the team, who are now on the inside at NBC, recently spoke about their experiences with the filming of the series and the final product.
“It just seemed so Tom-and-Bill-centric,” former Patriots safety Rodney Harrison said, in reference to quarterback Tom Brady and coach Bill Belichick. “And [owner Robert] Kraft. I didn’t enjoy it. I stopped. Because it didn’t tell the stories. . . . It was centered around some things that I wasn’t really feeling. And I just stopped watching. I mean, I interviewed for five or six hours I was in New York, and all they had me saying was, ‘Fuck ’em all. Fuck ’em all.’ Like, that’s it. That’s all I saw myself say. Like, I have a lot of input into Tom and how these guys treated me and the things that happened that led to me signing here. That was a big deal. You know, I just — I wasn’t a big fan of it.”
Defensive back Devin McCourty said he spent four or five hours with the production in New York and another two or three hours in Massachusetts. The time , “Man, this is gonna be great.” He did not agree once he saw it.
“I felt like I got kind of duped,” McCourty said. “I watched and I was just like, man, only things I said that could come across as negative to Bill was the only thing [used]. Like, I mean, I had different kind of quick sentences on things, but the longest thing I talked about was 2016 with Trump and the letter [Belichick sent in support of his candidacy for president]. And I thought that was probably the worst part. That everything that we all gave to the 20 years that it encompassed, they only hit anything that was negative.”
McCourty thought, for example, that there was a major pivot in the franchise in 2010. However, instead of focusing on that, they focused on something else.
“I thought 2010 was like a changing of the guard for so many different things with New England….
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Author : ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports
Publish date : 2024-03-19 20:55:45
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