'Tis the Season for 'Belichick is Going to the Giants' Rumors
NJ.com – No one knows the details of Bill Belichick’s contract with the New England Patriots. But it’s safe to say that after six Super Bowl titles, Belichick can remain head coach in Foxborough for as long as he wants.
However, time waits for no one, and after two decades in New England, the clock is ticking on Belichick, who could lose quarterback Tom Brady to free agency or retirement following Super Bowl LIV.
The Boston Globe’s Ben Volin reports on when Belichick is likely to leave New England. “I think he would probably stay for one more year after [Tom] Brady,” one insider said. “I could easily see him, if he did leave, becoming a president of some other team or an executive VP or something like that.” Like the Giants? “Of course.”
Belichick coming back to the Giants makes a lot of sense, since he won two Super Bowls as defensive coordinator under Bill Parcells. And don’t forget Belichick has a soft spot in his heart for New York (yes, Belichick has a heart). Before the Patriots beat the Giants in Week 6, Belichick was asked about his connection to New York. Per ESPN:
“Of course, the Mara family — single ownership. They’ve certainly been through all the phases of the league, and not only have done things very professionally and for the good of the game on the field, but present everything well off the field as well — their family and their organization and just the way they do things,” he said. …
Belichick could be one of the only people these days who is a fan of John Mara. He and co-owner Steve Tisch need to decide if they are ready to pull the plug on head coach Pat Shurmur and general manager Dave Gettleman.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year. And it’s not because of kids jingle belling and everyone telling you be of good cheer. Because honestly, who the fuck wants either of those things? It’s because this is the annual season of people who care about the Giants convincing themselves Bill Belichick is on his way to come to save them.
And I love how it plays the same way, year after year after glorious year.
It starts out with “We don’t know the status of his contract” and within two sentences they’re puking up this word soup filled with ludicrous scenarios about this warm, tender spot in the gooey, caramel filled center of his heart that exists only for the Giants. Why? Because he used to coach there. And because he’s said nice things about the ownership. So therefore the organization is the crush he never got over and he sees her face when he’s in bed with his wife and dreams of making sweet, sweet love to her.
And with that rolling paper thin premise, they manage to pull this preposterous scenario out of their sphincter that Mr. Kraft is somehow going to lose him to a rival team. With the usual assortment of Ben Volin quotes and anonymous sources to pretend it’s somehow remotely plausible.
By the logic of the “he used to coach there” theory, that should mean he’d want to go back to his first love, the Colts, where he used to fetch coffee for Ted Marchibroda. Or his first real coaching job, as a Special Teams Assistant for the Lions, and then graduating to Receivers Coach. Red Miller hired him as a Defensive Assistant for one year. Isn’t his heart pining to get back to the Rockies?
Yeah, he won titles with the Giants. That was during the Bush Administration. The George H.W. Bush Administration. If you were born in his last season working for the Maras, happy 30th birthday. More to the point, his undying love and admiration for the Mara family wasn’t requited when Bill Parcells retired and they didn’t try to hire him away from Cleveland.
But even if he doesn’t have any hard feelings, there is nothing he has said about the Maras that he didn’t just say about Mike Brown’s father Paul:
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“Coach Brown’s really the professional coach that I’ve probably looked up to more than any other, just in terms of the contributions he made to the game, and the professional way that he did things and the way he was able to adapt, and be innovative and creative to find ways to win.
“I’ve always admired Coach Brown and had the opportunity to meet him when I was younger and be around him a little bit. And then the rest of the Brown family, Mike [Brown] and Pete [Brown], who recently passed away. It’s a football family, it’s a football environment”
And Mike Brown is objectively terrible at his job. But that never stops Belichick from saying nice things about the people who run the league. He always has. That’s simply who he is as a historian who respects the game.
But then that doesn’t stop the people in New York/New Jersey from writing this erotic fanfic at this time every year. Like he’s going to leave the best owner he could ever hope for, with all the autonomy he gets to draft, sign and hire anyone he wants. With the roster he builds every year according to his own wishes. And where he’s universally respected from the top of the organizational flow chart to the bottom.
Keep dreaming. Or better yet, go out and find your own Bill Belichick and keep your greasy hands off of the one we’ve got.