num_pages: 352
description: Sports commentator and bestselling author Michael Holley will follow three NFL teams from training camp 2010 through the Super Bowl and into the April draft providing a new look at Belichicks influence which has now spread from the Patriots to other teams particularly the KC Chiefs and the Atlanta Falcons.This is a football book with three central characters: Patriots head coach Bill Belichick Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli and Falcons general manager Thomas Dimitroff.Michael Holley will follow Belichick Pioli and Dimitroff through the entire 2010 seasonfrom training camp 2010 through the Super Bowl and into the April draftexploring 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.
language: None
title: War Room
publisher: Harper Collins