The final two episodes of 'The Dynasty: New England Patriots' have been released, detailing how things ended in Foxborough. 

A Super Bowl championship in 2019 would keep most team's together, but not for Bill Belichick and Tom Brady. 

After 20 years together and six Super Bowl championships, the two decided to part ways. So here's how it all happened. 

Here are the meaningful moments from "The Dynasty: New England Patriots" Episode 9: Breaking Point

When Politics and Sports shouldn't intersect

The episode begins by showing Donald Trump speaking at a rally in New Hampshire. While this might feel out of place, Trump them proceeds to pull a letter out that was written by Belichick. 

“Yeah, my relationship with Donald Trump isn’t political, Belichick said during Episode 9. "I knew him long before he ever got involved in politics. So, Donald was a friend and I wrote a personal letter.”

Yet, while Belichick defends what he did, the players didn't quite see it that way. 

“When the letter came out, I felt kind of like, ‘Man, we got kind of bamboozled,’ Devin McCourty said. "Bill always said things like we don’t want to have to be in the media talking about these different things. I had some opinions I might have wanted to share, but out of respect to the team I didn’t.”

Matthew Slater completely agreed. 

“I personally thought it was very hypocritical. The Patriot Way, it starts with respecting the men you work alongside and trying to put the team first," he said. "I mean that’s the foundation for this place. I just don’t think he was connected enough with his players at the time to realize that that was going to have an impact on the locker room.”

Super Bowl LI

The Patriots overcame a historic deficit and came back to defeat the Atlanta Falcons. And when that happened, Tom Brady was on a whole new level. 

So much so that it created a very visible rift between him and Belichick. 

“By the end of that 2016 season, the Patriots had a Super Bowl win that was historic, but instead of solidifying and cementing what they were all about, the team’s foundation had started to be chipped at," NBC Sports' Tom Curran said. "And over the next year, we start to see a crumbling of relationships, diminishing enjoyment, and a certain level of dysfunction.” 

“After that Super Bowl win, Tom Brady solidified himself as the Patriots quarterback forevermore. And over the next few months we began to realize that Tom was going to live in a way that he felt took advantage of what he accomplished," Curran added. "Tom started spending less time thinking about what Bill thought was okay, and did his own thing.”

TB12

Everybody knows Brady's brand and this episode goes into detail about how it all started. And specifically how close Brady became with his trainer, which Belichick was not happy about. 

“The building of the TB12 business represented a new kind of independence for Tom. Tommy was starting to separate from team first all the time," Kraft explained. "As that happened, it created a certain amount of tension with Bill. Especially when it came to Tommy’s relationship with Alex Guerrero.” 

Guerrero had a different way of doing things, and it went against what the team's strength and conditioning coaches were saying. 

“Tom and I, we share a very special relationship. When you’re doing manual therapy and there’s this physical component along with the emotion of helping someone get out of pain, there’s some sort of connection," Guerrero said. "People call it having a soulmate. It became friendship, it became family, it became brotherhood.” 

And Brady had similar sentiments, specifically highlighting how impactful Guerrero was during Brady's recovery. 

“Over the years, my relationship with Alex really blossomed," Brady said. "There’s many moments where Alex helped me through tough times, physically, mentally, emotionally. I remember back in 2004, I was dealing with elbow pain and I couldn’t throw at training camp.”

“When I went to the treatment people, it wasn’t helping. But when I met Alex, for the first time, my pain went away in my elbow," Brady added. "My whole life, so I was like, ‘how the f*** did you do that?’”

As he saw success with this treatment, Brady encouraged his teammates to also try it out. And Rob Gronkowski took him up on it.  

The Patriots tight end was coming off a season where he punctured his lung and suffered from a back injury. Coming back into Training Camp in 2017, Gronkowski had a very bad offseason. And he was willing to do anything to try and fix it. 

"Coach Belichick had a meeting with me that I was not producing, that I looked slow, that I looked awful. I swear, Bill was about to cut me,” Gronkowski said. "After that, I went to TB12, and let me tell you, after about a couple sessions, I started to feel the difference. My back started loosening up, the pain was going away. When I hit the practice field, my speed was coming back. I was like, ‘Holy sh**, that’s magic.’ But there was something with my following Tom Brady’s method that some people didn’t like."

Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen

With Brady encouraging his teammates to work with Guerrero, Belichick started to feel that it was too many voices. 

“In Bill’s eyes, I believe, there was to many chefs in the kitchen," Danny Amendola said. "Just having this other non-Patriots affiliated professional in the building, I could see where, as a Patriots trainer, kind of the tensions could mount there.”

Guerrero had become a regular around the facility and it finally forced Belichick to step in. 

“Players can talk to whoever they want to outside of the building," Ernie Adams said. "But you can’t have someone in your building giving conflicting advice against what your training staff is saying, against what your strength and conditioning staff is saying. Giving off a mixed message.”

So eventually, Guerrero was stripped of team privileges. . 

“The whole situation, it caused a lot of animosity. I mean, it was so stupid because Alex is an amazing guy. He kept me healthy," Brady explained. "I mean, if I look at, there’s no way I plan even 12 years in the NFL without his commitment to me and our team. And instead of getting credit for it, he got blamed. And I kept going, ‘What the f*** is wrong with you people?’”

Gronkowski completely agreed that the whole thing was crazy. 

“There’s a lot of turmoil with Alex and the Patriots, and I just didn’t even understand it. I’d be like, ‘Tom, why are you getting hounded when you’re 40 years old and you’re putting up numbers like you’re 23 years old," Gronkowski said. "You’re still the best quarterback in the league. I just didn’t get it. And he never had an answer for me. He’d be like, ‘you know what Rob, I don’t know f****** know either.”

So for Belichick, he felt like he was losing his power as the head coach. And it didn't help when another incident seriously bothered him. 

Jimmy Garoppolo to the 49ers

During the 2017 season, Jimmy Garoppolo was traded to the San Franscico 49ers. And so Belichick lost his succession plan for Tom Brady. 

“I never asked him to do it. I just told Bill that we weren’t trading Brady ever," Kraft said. "So, that made it a little awkward.”

It was clear that Brady wasn't going anywhere, and the same was being said for Belichick. So they were going to have to try and figure things out. 

A Season of Conflict

The entire locker room could feel the tension between Brady and Belichick. 

Amendola: “As a player on the team that year, I could feel the tension building.”

Malcolm Butler: “It was just weird. You just felt it.”

Slater: “That was a trialing year, not just because of what’s happening behind the scenes in the building, but also what’s going on socially all over the country. It felt like there was tension everywhere.”

Kneeling

Throughout the season, many players were kneeling during the National Anthem to protest systemic racism. 

“When Trump started weighing in on the NFL, I was appalled. The President of the United States was attacking a group of mostly Black players who were taking a knee during the national anthem," Donté Stallworth said. "They were protesting in a peaceful way against inequality.”

Belichick had sent Trump the letter, Brady had a hat in his locker, and Kraft had a friendship with Trump. So the players in the organization began to feel that they were connected to him just because of that. But when it came time, they made an ultimate decision about the anthem. 

And that was on September 24, 2017 in a matchup between the Patriots and the Houston Texans

“You felt the impact right away. You heard the boos and this is what we think most of our Patriots fans feel, then they don’t know us as players," McCourty said. "Those men that they come and cheer for, jerseys they buy, they don’t know us. Everybody went to work worn down. You were like, ‘Man, this is hard.’” 

Joyless 

Do Your Job became the Patriots' motto. But during the 2017 season, it became all about that. And the idea of having fun while playing the game went out the door. 

“They are just winning. And they are doing it without a smile, they are doing it without a great deal of personality," ESPN's Howard Bryant said. "Very business-like, very cold, joyless.

“At the end of the day, this team was tied together by the idea that all of this is worth it if we win.”

Super Bowl LII (Patriots vs Eagles)

Slater couldn't have said it any better. 

“I remember going into that game feeling like, ‘alright, this was a long year.’ I think that was a year where guys would tell you maybe I didn’t love ball the way I should have," he admitted on the documentary. "But our quest to win a title is not going to change. Our end goal is the same as it’s always been – to win the championship, to win the Super Bowl.”

But there was one moment that dictated the entire game and made people question Belichick. 

Malcolm Butler is Benched

Butler was a Super Bowl hero. So how did he fall so far down? 

No one really knows. But things are at least a little more clear now. 

“I was very emotional man. I didn’t feel like I was being treated right," Butler said. "Because I didn’t find out until the game that I wasn’t going to play.”

“People still ask me about it to this day. Why you ain’t play in the Super Bowl? ‘I don’t know, coaches decision.’ But the thing about it is I really don’t know. I really don’t,” he added. “Just to like leave me watching my team suffer when I know I can help them, like not one rep. Not one rep.” 

And his teammates felt the same way

“As players, I know we all felt strongly that Malcolm should have been out there. But that’s not our call. And at the end of the day, we trust our coach," Slater said. “Seeing how the game was transpiring, we were kind of like, ‘we need him in there right now. Can we get him in there to stop the bleed?’”

There were even members of the coaching staff that have no clue why Belichick made this decision. 

“I don’t have one bit of information on that to this day,” former Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels said.  

While Belichick refused to talk about that any more during the episode, Kraft shined some necessary light on how he understood the situation. 

And it's not the best look for Belichick. 

“What has been told to me is that there was something personal going on between Bill and Malcolm that was not football related," Kraft said. "I always felt that every decision Bill had made had been to put what’s in the best interest of the team first and put emotion aside. But with Malcolm, he did just the opposite.”

A Horrible Loss

Despite throwing for over 500 yards against the Eagles, the Patriots did not prevail. And so each and every player was ready to put this tough season in the rearview mirror. 

But something was eating at Tom Brady. 

“At that point, I don’t think Tommy was himself. Over the years, he made a lot of sacrifices to be with us. And I don’t think he felt appreciated," Kraft said. "I realize we were coming near the end and I was just trying to hold it together the best I could.”