Listen to Bob Kraft's interview on the Mike Lupica show in New York.
“You love the rivalry, you love the enmity that goes both ways,” he said. “They are always great games. The Jets always play us tough, they have a great coach down there. I understand how the fans relate to him. He sort of personifies the paradigm of the team. … There’s something about the Patriots-Jets game that puts it on the map as something special.”
On Belichick leaving Gronkowski in:
“He does make a good point,” Kraft said of Belichick in a Tuesday interview with Mike Lupica on ESPN New York Radio (listen to it here, around the 9-minute mark). “I’ve had this discussion (with Belichick) previous years, taking (Tom) Brady out or whatever, and he says, and I think it’s a valid point, when you start taking players out -- and you’re saying this guy stays in, he’s not as important as the other guy -- remember going back to that ’01 Super Bowl, we’ve always put team first and trying to treat everybody -- no matter where they stand on the pecking order -- the same, you can’t do it differently. I now accept that even though it hurts to see what happened to Gronk.”
Transcript via ESPNBoston
