Within ten years of owning the team, Forbes Magazine valued the Patriots organization at over one billion dollars, and every year the team's value goes up. This past August, Forbes Valued the Patriots at over two and half billion dollars. And now entering his 20th season as the Patriots owner, he has made the Patriots who they are now, a dominant team year after year, with a countrywide fan base that can count on Kraft to field a great team every year. .
Every team needs an owner that will make smart decisions that will help the team, and on January 27, 2000, Kraft made a decision that will always be the best he ever made. Bill Belichick was hired to become the next head coach of the New England Patriots. Belichick made in impact right from the start, winning three Super Bowls in his first five years as head coach. Other accomplishments include leading the Patriots to the NFL's first ever 16-0 season in 2007, and an NFL record of twenty-one consecutive wins. On top of the stats that show how great of a head coach that Bill Belichick has been, it's also his mentality. Belichick likes to stick with the "don't be that guy" motto, when it comes to his team. He is strict with his policy and rules that the players must follow. Most people see Belichick as a heartless, or robotic person. He hates to talk to the media and never seems to smile for anyone, but yet, most players love to play for him and almost everyone respects him. He is one of the smartest coaches to ever play the game and has become possibly the greatest coach in NFL history. As a player, if you sign with the Patriots, you don't just get the money. Having Belichick as a coach affects the team in ways that players want to play for a coach that knows what he's doing. They want a team that has a chance to win a championship every single year, and because of that smart decision that Kraft made back in 2000, the Patriots have that.
