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  • It's Better to Be Feared

  • The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness
  • Written by: Seth Wickersham
  • Narrated by: Richard Poe
  • Length: 19 hrs and 21 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (14 ratings)

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It's Better to Be Feared

Written by: Seth Wickersham
Narrated by: Richard Poe
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Publisher's Summary

Over two unbelievable decades, the New England Patriots were not only the NFL's most dominant team, but also - and by far - the most secretive. How did they achieve and sustain greatness - and what were the costs?

In It's Better to Be Feared, Seth Wickersham, one of the country's finest long form and investigative sportswriters, tells the full, behind-the-scenes story of the Patriots, capturing the brilliance, ambition, and vanity that powered and ultimately unraveled them. Based on hundreds of interviews conducted since 2001, Wickersham's chronicle is packed with revelations, taking us deep into Bill Belichick's tactical ingenuity and Tom Brady's unique mentality while also reporting on their divergent paths in 2020, including Brady's run to the Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Raucous, unvarnished, and definitive, It's Better to Be Feared is an instant classic of American sportswriting in the tradition of Michael Lewis, David Maraniss, and David Halberstam.
©2021 Seth Wickersham (P)2021 Recorded Books
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Narrator is pretty bad

There are some interesting nuggets in this book. I follow the team very closely, but there were some things in this book I had never heard before.

The narrator is horrible. His impersonation’s of people (especially Belichick) are brutal. That’s forgivable, but what’s not is how he incorrectly pronounced the last name of many big name NFL people is not. Hard to believe it was allowed to be published to Audible like this.

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