LATEST NEWS: He is not the ‘right coach’ to rebuild the Patriots.
“I don’t think he’s a good coach for a bad team, and right now they’re not a good team.”
Nora Princiotti of The Ringer joins Tom Giles on ‘The Gameplan’ to discuss Bill Belichick’s future in Foxboro and to offer a dark horse candidate to hire Belichick as their next head coach if the Patriots decide to part ways after the season.
With four weeks remaining in the 2023 regular season, Bill Belichick’s future with the New England Patriots is uncertain.
It’s been a disastrous year for Belichick’s team, which enters Week 15 with a 3-10 record and is already out of playoff contention. The longtime Patriots coach has struggled since the departure of legendary quarterback Tom Brady, compiling a 28-35 record in the post-Brady era and failing to secure a playoff berth in three of the last four seasons.
Those struggles have set the stage for a difficult conversation between Belichick and Pats owner Robert Kraft at season’s end. Our Patriots insider Tom E. Curran reports a “decision has been made” on Belichick’s future with the team, though nothing is official.
Is it time for Belichick to move on after 24 years in New England? The Ringer’s Nora Princiotti shared her take on Wednesday’s episode of The Gameplan.
“The moment that stood out to me the most from this Patriots season was after that loss to the Saints. Belichick, I think, hadn’t gone for it on either one or two fourth downs. He answered some question about the lack of aggressiveness by saying, ‘We’re not good enough, we’re not good enough on third down. We’re not good enough on fourth down. So we can’t make those decisions.’ And I just remember feeling in that moment, ‘Oh, he’s not the right coach for this team anymore.’
“I still believe that Bill Belichick has so much to offer an organization as a head coach. There’s just no way that you lose that much knowledge, that much ability. But I don’t think he’s a good coach for a bad team, and right now they’re not a good team. It’s not a good roster, and so figuring out who’s gonna sort of shepherd them out of that darkness, I think is really fascinating. I do think it requires a little bit of maybe acceptance from the Krafts that that’s where they are and that’s the type of leader that they have to search for. So, that’s what I’ve been really fascinated to watch this season just from a 30,000-foot perspective.”
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