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Michael Holley is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Patriot Reign, War Room, Never Give Up (with Tedy Bruschi), Papi (with David Ortiz), and Red Sox Rule. He was a Boston Globe sportswriter for ten years and is the cohost of the Dale Holley show on Boston sports radio station WEEI. vis mere Holley lives in Boston with his wife and children. vis mindre

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Given the title, it should not be surprising that this book is really a paean to the Patriots' long-time coach and his dutiful quarterback. Focusing mostly on the Superbowl and League champion years the two men have shared, the book also deals with the scandals surrounding the team, notably Deflategate, and the author defends his subjects with no pretense of impartiality.

The writing itself is rather choppy and lacks the sort of narrative flow I admire in good non-fiction. It's not unreadable though and the tale is interesting enough to sustain the attention of any NFL afficianado.

Thank you to Hachette Books who were kind enough to send me a free review copy which my father now seems to be enjoying more than I did.
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fionaanne | 1 anden anmeldelse | Nov 11, 2021 |
A good sports book has a few beats it needs to cover to succeed. First, the team is assembled. Second, you talk about the growing pains when the team is first brought together. Finally, you read about how the team achieves it's goals. This book is interesting because it adds another phase: what happens after the championship banners are raised?

Holley's book shows how the post 2008 title Celtics glided from a great team to a rebuilding one. By page 100, the discussion of the title season has concluded. Their core is rent apart by animosity between Rajon Rondo and Ray Allen, as well as the aging of the entire team. Doc Rivers stands by, looking on patiently while trying to keep the group playing at a high enough level to get that next championship. Danny Ainge is back in the lab, cooking up trades to try and patch holes in a roster that develops them at a breakneck pace. But it isn't meant to be.

Holley did a great job of being fair and even handed in his treatment of Allen and Rondo. We see a different side of Allen that really hasn't been portrayed in the media, that of a lonely craftsman who just wants to find his place in the league. Rondo is given the keys to the team and proves that the contract extension he received was a mistake. He's eventually shipped off to Dallas, and becomes a journeyman who finally won another title with the 2020 Lakers. But we also see the passionate side of Rondo. He's a proud man who's unable to properly express his emotion. He's not immature; he just can't bear not to win.

I recommend this book to all sports fans. It's not often you get to read about how a team dies after achieving the greatest success.
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reenum | Nov 1, 2020 |
Interesting insight on the scouting and drafting system that started in New England and stretched to KC and Atlanta. While the power of hindsight highlights some takes that didn't age well, a volatile industry such as this is bound to be littered with them. The emphasis on how the system conceived by Belichick was nurtured and carried by others was interesting as you spend as much, if not more, time reading about its implementation and use in KC and Atlanta as you do in New England
 
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jlmon11 | 1 anden anmeldelse | Mar 27, 2020 |
Awesome! Michael Holley and behind the scenes stuff, especially when it comes to football is always totally amazing. Just like Patriot Reign and War Room, this book sucked me right back in. Back to those awesome first days of the Belichick/Brady Team up.

That's where it started, but it slowly but surely proceeded year by year, season by season as Bill and Brady went through the ups and downs of the previous fifteen or so seasons.

The ups of that first amazing season with Brady in 2001, and even more ups in 2003 and 2004. Of course, he did have to write about the downs of 2007 and 2010 not to mention the 'Year Without Brady' in 2008. Though he never does this outright, through the text Holley also manages to remind his readers who are also Patriots' fans how being bummed in 07 and 10 because we didn't win the Super Bowl is sorta lame, because since Bill and Brady got together the Patriots have been one of the most winningest teams in the NFL. Finally, Michael got to 2014 as well.

It was just an all around great book. The text flowed very well, and there was even behind the scenes stuff that I hadn't seen in the news anywhere, that was new to me. It was so good a book that even Holley's acknowledgements were priceless.
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