The Giants and Titans fired their head coaches earlier in the campaign, but other teams are sure to join them on the market by the end of the season. At least five more jobs could open up, Josina Anderson of The Exhibit reports.
While it’s unclear which clubs will dismiss their head coaches in the coming weeks, it appears Bill Belichick‘s status will be worth monitoring for some of those openings.
The North Carolina head coach emphatically denied interest in an NFL return earlier this month. Nevertheless, a report stating at least one NFL team was doing homework on Belichick surfaced shortly after that.
Now, according to Anderson, there are “at least” two teams that are expected to have interest in Belichick. A third could join the fray, per Anderson, who hears that may depend on the team’s ownership making “one specific personnel change.”
Belichick, who’s in his first season at the college level, won’t lead the Tar Heels to a bowl game this year. UNC is guaranteed to finish under .500 after falling to 4-7 with a loss to Duke last week. That’s surely not what Belichick or the school had in mind when they finalized a five-year, $50MM deal last January. The Tar Heels’ season (and potentially Belichick’s tenure as their coach) will end against North Carolina State on Saturday.
Although Belichick has not carried his professional success to the college ranks, there are still NFL owners who have a “deep respect” for the 73-year-old, Anderson notes. Considering Belichick ranks first among head coaches in Super Bowl victories (six) and third in regular-season wins (302), that’s not a surprise.
Belichick nearly landed the Falcons’ head coaching job in January 2024, but they instead chose Raheem Morris. The former Browns and Patriots HC went on to express interest in multiple openings last winter before committing to UNC. No reported interviews took place then, though perhaps he’ll encounter more serious interest during the upcoming hiring cycle.
Bill Belichick coaching The Giants would be the ultimate irony
With Belichick preferring to hire people he’s worked with before and McDaniels doing well in New England, the most logical person to be offensive coordinator for Belichick if he returns to the league is… Brian Daboll.
Don’t forget Joe Judge and Matt Patricia
Patricia’s stock is up given how he’s done at Ohio State. I don’t know if he’d actually want to re-team with Belichick.
Everyone’s stock goes up at Ohio State. Then they get back into another opportunity and fall back to reality lol.
Amazing BB didn’t get any offers last year
Not really. Never won without Brady and wants to much control
TB is the GOAT
but BB went 11-5 with matt cassell and went to the playoffs with rookie mac jones
the guy can coach
6 SB rings and 0 offers was a shocker
tms probly worried he’s too old
That was so long ago. Teams would be crazy to give him any control of personnel after his last two years at New England and now add his side-show girlfriend to the mix. No fan base deserves that…
In 2022, the Patriots were win-and-in going into Week 18 at Buffalo. Those playoff dreams ended when Nyheim Hines performed the “Fairytale of Orchard Park”.
New England went 4-13 the following season and that collapse marked the end for Belichick in Foxboro.
And that was with good teams, but not good enough to win without Tom Brady. BBs legacy will always be attached to Brady.
We got bingo!
BB went 11-5 and missed the playoffs with the same team that went undefeated the year before minus Brady. Fixed it
Brady never won a super bowl without a top 5 defense.
Mike Lombardi’s PR machine out in full force.
Note to reporters: stop taking his calls/texts/sexts.
The most obvious agent leak I have ever seen.
No one has seen what he’s done with his life in the past year and said “I want that to be the face of my team.”
Like his UNC team full of players charged with DUI, speeding, reckless driving, etc., etc.
No different from Belichick’s Patriots harboring a real-life gangsta in Aaron Hernandez.
Just because Hernandez was a murderer doesn’t make him a “real life gansta” 😂
Aaron Hernandez was a made member of the Bloods. Ergo, the New England Patriots had in their team a hardcore gangbanger. He wasn’t cut loose until after his indictment on murder charges. The only people who didn’t think there was a problem are those who worship the legacy of the Foxboro Cheatriots.
Remember, the NFL kept the Raiders from going back to Los Angeles because of their gangbanger following.
I could see the morons in charge of the Raiders go from one really old guy to another. Please Mark, don’t do it.
I think their minority owner might object to Belechick.
I don’t know that I see Brady wanting to hire BB considering how that breakup went. He has more pull there than anyone wants to admit.
Not going to happen. Brady clearly hates him.
Hate is a silly word. Brady is tired of Belechick and has seen his decline close-up. Belechick is 73 years old and has no business starting a new coaching position. The NC experiment was an acceptable enough idea, having Belechick as head coach should have been a powerful recruiting tool. Doesn’t seem to be working out.
Great as Belechick was in his prime, those days are long gone. Why would an NFL team bet its future on an old man? If the Pete Caroll experiment in Vegas is any indicator, it’s a very bad idea.
Complete BS. More of ahole bellichiks media kiss ups trying to keep anyone interested in this has been loser.
Oh let’s bring the bill and Jordan circus to town.
Good luck going 5-12 and him leaving your team not talent with his horrible drafting when he is gone! Any owner to hire him is a moron.
6-3 Super Bowls, how many has your team won?
Think the game has advanced more than he has adapted. He has not won anything significant without Tom. He had lackey he always brings and they too are not evolving.
FAKE NEWS!!!
That video of The Hood at Jordon’s adult cheerleading competition might be the most miserable we’ve ever him. Can’t really blame him for desperately trying to get back into the league after that.
Belichick would have had a legit chance getting hired this cycle had he skipped North Carolina, stayed active in covering the NFL through the media, and quit his Sugar Daddy role. But he didn’t do those things and instead boarded the SS Dumpster Fire and saw his reputation go down with the ship. From legendary coach to punch line in one year.
Yeah, that stuff torpedo’d his stock faster than his erratic front office decisions after losing his brain trust circa 2017. Brady wasn’t the only major loss that the Patriots experienced, even if people want to make it all about him (I mean, it’s the quarterback, that’s what people do)
Bill has always been, and still is, an incredible coach. The thing that’s been missed, however, is how many people he had in that front office who were incredibly good at identifying cheap talent to give him for use in his schemes. Of course, the cheating scandals surrounding the Patriots can’t be ignored, but the fact of the matter is that they were still the best in the league at identifying players to fit specific needs and using them in those specific roles to augment the handful of stars.
Brady was the piece that allowed Bill to not have to worry about the most important position, which cannot be understated. But Bill’s front office covered up a lot of his managerial shortcomings that were exposed when there was no one left to offer perspective on his decisions (like the infamous Patricia switcheroo). Now, at N.C., does he have any of those other lieutenants or executives to do the same? Belichick’s aged, so it seems, which is a bad place to be for a long term, system oriented rebuilder like him. Even if Belichick could pull it off, it would take him at least three years to get his ship right in one of these teams…at which time he would be 77, and everyone would be forty seven years older from dealing with Jordon Hudson.
I think the majority of successful coaches are rather inflexible about changing. They just assume that what is working well now will still work well 10 years down the road. Belichick isn’t the only coach that was constantly trying to find a DeLorean and go back to the future. Al Davis was also guilty of that in his later years. Trying to recreate the past just doesn’t work though.
Irony would be when McDummy in Buffalo gets canned, he ends up the Bills and he gets his opportunity to stick it to Kraft.
Never happen in a million years. Fans across WNY would riot.
Fans in Western New York want a Super Bowl Ring. Might be time to try the Dark Side of the Force with Darth Hoodie.
Or at least a coach that likes nose tackles and/or base defenses that are effective against the run…
Big, if true. Hope it’s big and true.
My good friend arty! is going to go ballistic if Belichick returns to the NFL…lol
Free material to write about through the offseason and 2026 season!
Sounds made up. If they weren’t going to do it when he was a year younger and all the crazy s*** hadn’t already come out about his caretaker/girlfriend/babysitter, what changed since then other than him having worse teams than he had at the end in New England? Sounds like somebody is fishing for a job that’s not going to happen.
I hate that the third possible team is likely the Falcons, if they fire Rich McKay from whatever role he has. Morris would need to go too obviously but I’m pretty sure he will be. McKay was what kept the Falcons from hiring Belichick last time.
Probably a reasonable decision, but McKay has been coasting on his Tampa achievements for so long that Atlanta’s hlued him to the dry dock.
Maybe if he dumps Jordon and Lombardi, otherwise, I just can’t see it.
“Who wants yesterday’s papers? Who wants yesterday’s girl?
“Nobody in the world.”
The Rolling Stones recorded those lyrics nearly 50 years ago and Belichick is the present-day equivalent.
Ironically enough the Atlanta job should be open again
If Bill is somehow lucky enough to be offered a HC job in the NFL he better take it. He can still get top wins all time if he’s lucky.
Why?
Coaches are only as good as the players they have. Coach makes zero difference here. Raiders are terrible and will continue the 20 year rebuild. They will continue to be terrible.
Is he bringing Tom Brady with him or just the 84-104 record without him.?
Ah a Josina Anderson article. None of it is true
If u think bill is a bad coach,Brady wouldn’t have won that many Super Bowls without each other. They both needed each other,Brady did his thing with the offense and bill did his thing with the defense.WINNING GAMES.BOTH PARTYS NEEDED EACH OTHER. Fans don’t remember when bellicheck stopped the greatest show on earth the ST LOUIS RAMS in the super bowl. I gotta call it like I see it, drop the hate and give the credit to the party’s that deserve it.