Perhaps the greatest NFL coach of all time, Bill Belichick, will not be coaching in the league for the 2024 season. While he has already been very vocal about wanting to make his return to the league next year, this year he will have a rather unusual job for himself.
Belichick has always been known to have one of the worst relationships with the NFL legacy media over his career, especially when he was the coach of the New England Patriots. Bill is now joining the very media that he has always butted heads with for decades. Because of his job decision, there is one media member that thinks Bill is being a hypocrite for taking this role.
NFL Media Member Thinks Bill Belichick Should Stay Out Of The Media
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Andrew Perloff of Athlon Sports, came out recently with an article that tried to make the case that Belichick will use this new media platform of his in order to secure a coaching job for 2025. According to Perloff, Bill still is not a fan of the media at all and will only use this opportunity to get back to the league.
There really is not a problem with that at all, as many former coaches and players have done the same in order to get back in the league. However, for Perloff, Belichick is the worst hypocrite, and he went on to blast Belichick in his article for becoming the very thing that Bill criticized so much in the past:
“When Belichick famously responded to each question in a 2014 press conferences with “We’re on to Cincinnati,” his answer became a rallying cry for Pats fans. It was also obnoxious and unnecessary. He didn’t need to make reporters look silly to motivate his guys. That team was full of pros, including Brady, who knew the mission. They didn’t need Belichick stonewalling the press to get the point. Every person in that room was trying to do their job. Belichick of all people should have understood that,” Perloff wrote.
“No one doubts Belichick’s acumen. He is the greatest living football coach. The teams that passed on him in the latest hiring cycle made a terrible choice. Belichick is also the most calculating coach of all time — in any sport. He controlled every detail in New England and will do the same as a broadcaster.
“Everything Belichick says on camera will have an angle. He’ll use the platform to secure future employment on the sidelines. If he rips a coach, how do we know he’s not angling for that coach’s job? If he praises a quarterback, is that because he wants to join him next season? Belichick was critical of college players during the draft on ESPN, but that’s because there were no stakes. He’ll be more careful when it comes to the NFL.”
My latest for @AthlonSports: Bill Belichick is a hypocrite and I don’t want to see him on television…https://t.co/V0xqpFGjoq
— Andrew Perloff (@andrewperloff) July 16, 2024
Perloff has some good points here, however, people and things change. Bill has been around the league for decades and the media has always encouraged him to change his ways. Since he left the Patriots, he has been doing just that.
To have the best coach of all time in the media is something that fans will love and enjoy. While Perloff is not completely wrong, Bill is entitled to do whatever he wants, and it’s not hypocritical for him to take a media role in hopes to make it back to coaching.
What do you guys think of Belichick’s decision?
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