The NFL’s teaching carousel has stopped with out Invoice Belichick touchdown a head-coaching job, stunning many, together with Tom Brady, his former star quarterback.
“I do not know the standards for hiring coaches. I’ve by no means been part of it,” Brady mentioned this week on his “Let’s Go!” podcast. “I imply, I am shocked that the best coach ever would not have a job, completely. However I am shocked [by] loads of issues within the NFL.”
Belichick, who mutually parted methods with the New England Patriots after 24 seasons and 6 Tremendous Bowl titles, had solely two interviews throughout this 12 months’s cycle — each with the Atlanta Falcons, who determined to rent Raheem Morris for the job as an alternative.
The final two of the seven head-coaching vacancies have been crammed final week when the Seattle Seahawks and Washington Commanders employed Mike Macdonald and Dan Quinn, respectively.
If Belichick would not take a job as an assistant coach, subsequent season would be the first time since 1975 that he is not going to be teaching within the NFL.
Belichick, 71, left New England with 333 profession victories (together with playoffs), second all-time behind Don Shula’s 347, and received six Tremendous Bowls with Brady as his quarterback.
Brady mentioned he can relate in a strategy to Belichick not touchdown a job based mostly on his expertise in free company when he left the Patriots after 20 seasons in 2020.
“Once I was a free agent, there [were] loads of groups that did not need me,” Brady mentioned on his podcast.
Brady finally signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and received a seventh Tremendous Bowl in his first season with the Bucs, taking part in two extra seasons in Tampa earlier than retiring final 12 months.
