Patriots owner Robert Kraft has doubled down on his efforts to rebuff the ESPN report that detailed alleged turmoil within his organization.
In an interview with Sports Illustrated published Saturday morning, the 76-year-old businessman told Peter King that he did not order coach Bill Belichick to trade New England’s former backup quarterback, Jimmy Garoppolo, as ESPN’s Seth Wickersham reported. Calling Wickersham’s retelling of the trade “a total fabrication and fiction,” Kraft rebuked the reporter’s claims with his own version of what happened.
According to Wickersham, Kraft and Belichick met for nearly half a day in mid-October to discuss the team’s quarterback situation.