Belichick's Few Offers Raise Doubts About his Coaching Future

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00:00 But the fact that Bill Belichick did not come away with a job here does seem to be a surprise

00:08 to everyone, whether that be Atlanta specifically or just the fact that he didn't get work anywhere.

00:15 And for me, the reason why this stands out so much is it is not that Bill Belichick is

00:20 going to struggle to make money.

00:21 He can pick any network he wants and go become one of their lead commentators in studio.

00:27 It's not that Bill Belichick couldn't pick 1,000 coordinator jobs potentially.

00:31 Honestly, if he wanted, he could probably go get a power five job in college right now

00:35 if he decided he would.

00:37 The thing that I am struggling a bit with, Joe, is the notion that Bill Belichick at

00:41 his age is going to take a year off and come back as a head coach again next season.

00:48 And that's basically where we are because there's no job coming for Bill Belichick this

00:52 offseason head coaching wise in this league.

00:54 No, there's not, but I'm not really shocked the more I think about it, Kevin.

00:58 Part of the reason is look at where we are in regards to the NFL and look at where we

01:03 are in regards to Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots.

01:06 After Tom Brady moves on and wins the Super Bowl with Tampa Bay, he drafts Bailey Zappi,

01:11 he drafts Mac Jones, can't elevate the quarterback position, can't put playmakers from an offensive

01:16 perspective around that talent, and they struggle from an offensive identity.

01:22 More importantly, look at what he did in terms of Joe Judge and Matt Patricia, co-offensive

01:27 coordinators, defensive players, a special teams coach, Donnie, and he has them coaching

01:32 the offense.

01:33 He can't even get a grip in regards to coaching this team, and I think he's sort of regressed.

01:38 Now statistically from a defensive perspective, they were good, but not elite.

01:42 And when you have young playmakers like Drake London, Kyle Pitts, B. John Robinson, and

01:47 Tyler Algier, and you look at Smith, Arthur Smith, and he couldn't coach that offense

01:52 up.

01:53 Do you really want to give the reins to Bill Belichick in terms of that type of situation?

01:56 I wouldn't, Donnie.

01:58 Which makes it perplexing, because I think you're right with the way we angle Bill Belichick,

02:02 because for me it was like he's a fantastic coach.

02:05 He just can't be the entire guy in the organization, make every single call, draft picks, free

02:10 agents and the like.

02:11 And we had to find out if he actually wanted to do that or didn't want to do it.

02:14 But if you're going from a defensive perspective and you say, "Okay, look, defense is the way

02:17 to go here."

02:18 Bill Belichick's probably the best defensive coordinator in the history of the sport itself.

02:22 And then you hired Raheem Morris, who also is a defensive coordinator.

02:26 You go Dave Canales, you go even with Callahan as the coach in Atlanta.

02:29 Like, you know what?

02:30 They went offensive.

02:31 That's not what Bill Belichick's cut from that same cloth.

02:34 Belichick being left out for Raheem Morris does make it interesting, but also keep in

02:37 mind sometimes in the NFL world, as Kevin and I talked about this on the radio, organizations

02:42 want to have functioning people all across the board.

02:45 The owner obviously is going to own, not going to push him around.

02:48 But there's football ops, there's, you know, half of the building here with 25 to 30 scouts.

02:53 Those guys want to have a job that has some input.

02:55 If Bill walks into your building, he's the end all be all.

02:57 It's almost like, what are we doing here in the front office anymore?

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