Ping!..................
He has a contract, I suspect he will get a handsome parting gift.
Even Tom Landry was fired.
He had a good run. He will be in the football hall of fame someday.
So he’s fired. But nothing can take away from one of the greatest runs in NFL history. He eclipsed his mentor Bill Parcells. He was not an innovator like Bill Walsh, but his record speaks for itself.
People who operate in the rarified air Belichick has breathed for years do not often ride off into the sunset because the very drive that made them great keeps them from quitting when they lose a step. He may or may not find another team and return to glory but even at 75% of peak Belichick he will still be a good coach in the NFL if he wants it.
One wonders what would have become of Tom Brady if he was drafted by the Detroit Lions or Cleveland Browns.
I suggest he take up painting for $500K a canvass.
No fan of the Pats or Belichick. But after 23 years and all those Super Bowl wins, he deserves better than being fired.
A strong suggestion for a retirement would have been appropriate.
I can say this objectively because I remember Belichick from his early days as an NFL assistant in the 1980s. I think the guy has always been a very overrated coach who owes his success largely to the mediocrity of his peers among NFL head coaches. There were just too many times -- and that Super Bowl fiasco with Seattle was a classic case of it -- where opposing coaches were just flat-out intimidated by the overblown mystique of coaching against the mythical genius named Bill Belichick, and they felt like they had to develop special game plans and run unpredictable plays to beat him when they could have won just on talent alone.
To me, the most noteworthy statistic from Belichick's career as a head coach is his 0-2 Super Bowl record against inferior New York Giants teams coached by the decent (but hardly spectacular) head coach, Tom Coughlin. The only difference between Coughlin and the other head coaches in the NFL is that Coughlin was never intimidated by Belichick. He probably wasn't even overly impressed by him. Coughlin is six years older than Belichick, and they both worked as assistant coaches for the Giants under Bill Parcells before they were head coaches.
Vince Lombardi is the greatest sports coach of the last century in North American sports, and it probably isn't even close. Lombardi was a superior coach on the field as well as a legendary builder of character among his players. This was the man who lost his first NFL championship game with the Packers, then promised his players that it would never happen again ... and it never did.
If he was fired, this article holds the world record for not getting to the point.
Certainly a HOF coach, but I give more credit for all those Super Bowl titles to Brady than Belichick.
What is Bill Belichik’s record without Tom Brady, both in Cleveland and in New England? Does he even have a winning record in games without Brady? Of course, any head coach needs good players to win, but calling Belichik the greatest NFL coach of all time is ridiculous - Tom Brady could have made any number of halfway decent head coaches into perennial winners.
Whatever else is said of the Patriot Belichick years, that is true. In an age of parity across all sports no one else comes close (maybe Alabama and Nick Saban).
I watched Welcome to Wrexham. Shelf life of a soccer coach seems to be very short lived. Soccer fans are really something else. (yes I know Philly fans can be quite rude and will throw snowballs at Santa)
In a recent match the away team fans were forbidden to take public transport so team owners who have big bucks arranged transportation for 1000s of fans. Also gave them a team scarf and some kind of cereal bar.
and as a weird side note..the way you brits pronounce FEATHERSTONEHAUGH is so incredibly weird with little connection to the actual letters..LOL
bfl
During a road game against the Jets, NFL security stopped a Patriots staffer who was recording the Jets signals—a clear violation of league rules.
Bum Phillips
Which brings to mind another Bum Phillips quote, about Dolphin's Head Coach Don Shula:
He can take his an' beat yours, or he can take yours, an' beat his.