The Patriots organization went astray from how it usually acts with the media over the past week following the ESPN story reporting on a power struggle between Robert Kraft, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick.
All three have disputed many contents of the story in various forms, including Kraft speaking to SI's Peter King over the weekend and explaining how the Jimmy Garoppolo trade went down through his eyes, noting he did not force him to be traded.
Appearing on Dale & Holley with Keefe Tuesday, King explained why the Patriots felt the need to respond, and he said it's likely because of how upset they were.
"I know that Robert Kraft in the past, when he feels he has been wronged, or when he wants to get his message across, he will get his message across somehow, someway," he said. "Maybe he will have a press conference. Maybe he'll talk to somebody in the media. Maybe he'll talk to me. I don't know, I have not talked to Tom Brady, I certainly haven't talked to Bill Belichick. I can't explain why they reacted the way they did, but early on in this story, and Robert Kraft with me Friday night — he was extremely upset by this. Just extremely upset because he feels that, especially the part of the story about [Jimmy] Garoppolo and the inference he ordered the code red is absolutely unequivocally false.
"I can't explain the other reactions to it, but I think there was a perception from the three main characters in this story that there were some errors in this story and I am sure they wanted to get that across."
Below is the complete interview.
