Tom Brady just wanted to say goodbye -- in person -- to his longtime coach. But
according to a new book to be published next month, Bill Belichick said
he wasn't available and insisted the two New England Patriots legends talk on the phone.

Kraft once called Belichick the "biggest f----ng a--hole in my life."

Bill O'Brien told a colleague he tried to get fired as coach of the Houston Texans because he thought he might be able to succeed Belichick

Belichick and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell had a much closer relationship than previously known and once met secretly in a New England airplane hangar to discuss rule changes

Kraft said. 'You leave here and you leave some of the most brilliant
people you've ever met. You pick up so much knowledge from all these
brilliant minds. And I have to go to Detroit to be with the biggest
f-----ng a--hole in my life -- my head coach.' "

"Bill was an idiot savant," Kraft told a confidant

"Brady, though, seemed ready for it. ... 'I don't want to play for Bill anymore,' he told people close to him in 2017."

At the 2008 league meetings, Belichick and then-New York Jets head coach Eric Mangini nearly had a fistfight.

Even though Goodell has heavily punished the Patriots three times for rules violations, he has become close with Belichick. Besides the secret meeting at a private airport to discuss rule changes, on the morning after the Patriots' Super Bowl win over the Falcons, Belichick hugged Goodell and lifted the commissioner's feet off the ground.

At the team party after New England's loss, [Malcolm] Butler responded to teammates asking why he was benched by saying, "These dudes," referring to the coaches, according to the book, "these mother f---ers."

Now I want an expose of the Colts Grigson years.