Dimensions
134 x 199 x 21mm
Michael Holley takes readers to the front offices and closed-door meetings at three of the top NFL teams where he explores the victories and the disappointments, the risks and the rewards taken by three of the greatest master strategists in the game: Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots, Scott Pioli of the Kansas City Chiefs, and Thomas Dimitroff of the Atlanta Falcons.
WAR ROOM follows Belichick, Pioli, and Dimitroff through the entire 2010 season - from training camp 2010, through the Super Bowl, and into the April draft - exploring the personal connections of the three men and the increasing influence of the Patriot way. Belichick and Pioli have been friends since the 1980s, when Belichick was a young coordinator for the New York Giants. They worked together in Cleveland, New York (Jets) and New England. In 2008, Pioli left for Kansas City to build a Midwestern Patriots model. A year before Pioli left, Dimitroff was the surprising top GM choice of the Falcons, who dreamed of building Patriots South in Atlanta.
The culmination of the narrative will be all three men preparing their teams for the lifeblood of the NFL, which is the draft, as all three franchises seek to improve themselves through similar philosophies but perhaps different strategies.
