Kraft did the only thing he could do after the Jerod Mayo firing. He took blame for the "situation" and set out to fix his fallen franchise.

We are also watching bad fallout from the patriarchy —the classic rule of father, which in this case involves the rule of Robert Kraft over the family business. As a deluge of sports stories ...

He fired Mayo, his hand-picked successor to Bill Belichick, and leapt back into the unknown; a leap that left the rest of the Patriots hanging, with the future of every coach and front-office member ...

I realized how bad the situation was. And I said, 'Look, Tommy, if you wanna go, I'll work it out so you can go.'" While Kraft was more than willing to spill details about the meeting, Brady wasn ...