During Sunday night’s two-hour-plus Tom Brady roast, host Kevin Hart brokered a seemingly impromptu meeting between Patriots owner Robert Kraft and former Patriots coach Bill Belichick. Kraft praised Belichick and Brady and then the two men drank shots.
Before the roast, the atmosphere was apparently different.
Drew Bledoe (not Brady) appeared on Julian Edelman’s podcast and set the stage when Kraft arrived in the green room. Here’s what they said.
“Pre-show, we’re in the green room,” Edelman said. “Randy, Drew, me, Gronk, we were just chilling there. Bill was opening up, he’s having fun, he’s telling war stories, talking about newbies. Doing shit, we know what Bill is doing, but it was like it was amplified, because he’s excited to see guys because he doesn’t have a job anymore.”
“Then Kraft comes in,” Bledsoe said.
“The tension in that room…could cut through fucking glass,” Edelman said. “That was so weird.”
Bledsoe added that players in the green room went to greet Kraft while Belichick was telling a story.
“I just walked away,” Edelman said. “I didn’t want to be there.”
They found a way to play well when Belichick’s departure was announced. Then, last month, ESPN.com reported that Kraft told Falcons owner Arthur Blank that he couldn’t trust Belichick. And Belichick has no offers for 2023.
Reality TV is never real. The truth only comes out when the cameras and microphones are not nearby. And it certainly seems like something closer to the real situation between Belichick and Kraft came to light in the green room before Brady’s roast.
