Table of Contents
Prologue xiii
Part I Nine Points (2001-2006)
1 One of a Kind 3
2 You Want to Leave? Go 'Head! 18
3 Drew's Out, You're In 35
4 I Won't Screw up Again 48
5 Hang Tight 54
6 How Do You Like That? 67
7 Turkey Zero 73
8 No Bridges High Enough to Jump Off 84
9 Can You Imagine? 93
10 Thank You, Peyton 101
11 The Trophy is Coming Back Home 112
12 Every Day But Game Day 122
13 20/20s 140
14 The Sleeper 149
15 Something Very Special 154
16 All You have is Your Name and Reputation 161
Part II The Highest Plateau (2006-2015)
17 Protect the Shield 173
18 Who Does That? 179
19 Remain Inconspicuous 185
20 18-0* 199
21 Girlie Man Limps Home 211
22 Burn That Game 216
23 Cover-Up 223
24 One Thing I'm Not is Scared 233
25 I'm Not Bill Belichick 246
26 That's a Lot of F-K Yous! 259
27 Alejandro! 267
28 Love in the Time of Belichick 281
29 Fight Song 291
30 The Makeup Call 300
31 Malcolm, Go! 307
Part III Feared Again (2015-2020)
32 I Had to do it for the Fans 319
33 How Did You Get Blood on There? 326
34 Definitely Human 334
35 For Your Mom, Bro 344
36 The Pliability Movement 353
37 You Think Bob Kraft Came after You Hard 362
38 I Don't Want to Play for Bill Anymore 369
39 It's Not Brain Surgery 379
40 Lights Out 385
41 Pleading the Fifth 392
42 Once You Stop, You're Done 398
43 Right, T? 409
44 We're Champs, Man! 414
45 Talk to Mr. Kraft 420
46 Please Stay, Tommy 431
47 The College Kid 435
48 Tompa Bay 440
49 Wartime Profiteer 446
50 I Hope I Play in It 452
Epilogue to the Paperback Edition 467
Acknowledgments 481
Notes on Sources 485
Index 513