Ex-Patriot feels team was portrayed deceitfully in docuseries

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Ex-Patriots captain feels team was portrayed deceitfully in 'The Dynasty' docuseries

By Michael Gallagher | Last updated 3/19/24

Many believed when Apple TV released “The Dynasty: New England Patriots” docuseries, it would be a collective victory lap of the team’s two-decade long reign over the NFL, in which they won 17 division titles and six Super Bowl championships.

However, in the days since the series concluded, it was abundantly clear that was not the case. Among those who took issue with the 10-part feature’s anti-Bill Belichick narrative was former Patriots captain Jason McCourty.

As he reflected on “The Dynasty” with former Patriots safety Rodney Harrison, via Pro Football Talk, McCourty admitted that he felt Apple TV was a bit disingenuous in how they painted the franchise.

“I felt like I got kind of duped,” McCourty said. “I was like, ‘Man, this is going to be great. Like the storytelling, we're talking about this and we're talking about that.’ Everything that we all gave to the 20 years that it encompassed, they only hit anything that was negative.”

"You can definitely say that The Dynasty doesn't paint Bill Belichick in the greatest of light..

We can't be shitting on the guy that was the architect behind this whole dynasty and it doesn't sit right with me I can tell you that" @damienwoody #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/ueqd8FmBxj
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) March 14, 2024

Harrison shared McCourty’s frustration, disclosing that much of the five-plus hours of interviews he gave never made it off the cutting room floor for the sake of taking pot shots at Belichick.

Team owner Robert Kraft also criticized Belichick in the series for the team losing Super Bowl LII to the Philadelphia Eagles — a game in which many believe Belichick was out-coached by Doug Pederson and the Eagles won with a backup quarterback (Nick Foles) despite Tom Brady throwing for a Super Bowl-record 505 yards with three touchdowns.

“They act like the last three or four years cause the Patriots have struggled that Bill can't coach,” Harrison said. “Bill made some mistakes and he wasn't always the nicest or the purest guy, but at the end of the day he always did whatever he had to do to make the team better.”

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