Bill Belichick will forever be a New England Patriots legend, and team owner Robert Kraft reportedly chose a mutual parting of ways instead of trading the head coach.
ESPN's Adam Schefter and Mike Reiss reported the Patriots and Belichick will end their time together Thursday following multiple meetings and conversations between the head coach and Kraft.
"Both Belichick and Kraft, as one outside party noted, 'took the high road,' which was fitting for an owner-coach tandem that will go down as one of the greatest and most decorated in NFL history," Schefter and Reiss wrote.