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00:00are now whispering that Bill takes this job.
00:02Yeah, I saw Reese across the street this morning says he believes
00:07that Bill Belichick will be taking. The quote is when asked about will Bill
00:13Belichick go to North Carolina. Mike Reese, yeah I think so.
00:19Just my opinion. I don't have any inside information on it
00:23but Bill Belichick is a coach and this is the opportunity to be there.
00:28He thinks he's going to be the next head coach of UNC. I just texted a guy who
00:33is as plugged in as anybody and I said is Reese full of s
00:37and he said nope he's going or what the exact what did he say.
00:41So Bill I guess doesn't care about the money. He's got tons of money. He's gonna
00:46make he's gonna make more money in the NFL, right?
00:49Oh what a great day. Doesn't care about the money.
00:52Doesn't care about if he takes this job. Does not care one iota about Shula's
00:57record. Nope. Nope. Well or he's been
01:01blackballed out of football and he doesn't have an opportunity.
01:04But I don't buy that though. But do you actually believe that Curtis?
01:08Well what do you believe he's going to North Carolina and turning down an
01:11opportunity to coach in the NFL? I don't think he has an opportunity yet in the
01:14NFL. I just don't. So that's what I'm saying. I believe if he has an
01:17opportunity he would coach in the NFL. Okay but only with complete control?
01:23No I mean whatever. I'm saying if I were Bill Belichick and I'm 14
01:27wins away. Right. I would not waste my time on Chapel Hill. So you don't think
01:30Shad Khan is willing to give Bill a head coaching
01:35position in the NFL at this point? That's ludicrous. Yeah. Why? I mean they
01:40didn't offer it to him last year. Because Doug Peterson was still in charge.
01:43Oh I mean but if you have a chance to get Bill Belichick who cares? Yeah but I
01:46think that maybe some of those coaches thought like all right he's
01:50maybe the football is passed him by. I just think that
01:55Forget about what we think. What do you think the narrative nationally will be
01:59if Bill Belichick goes to North Carolina? He just cares about coaching.
02:03I think it will be Bill Belichick locked out of the NFL.
02:07I think he wants to set himself up and his family up for
02:11the rest of the country. He's made hundreds of millions of dollars.
02:14Would you do that? The dude is undoubtedly
02:18the greatest coach in the history of the sport. It cannot be argued. He won
02:22six Super Bowls and he was a defensive coordinator for two more.
02:26He is without question the greatest coach to have ever lived
02:29and so if he wants to go end his years in beautiful Chapel Hill
02:33and with coaching alongside his two sons and family friends and all that stuff go
02:37for it. Who cares? Or the challenge could be
02:40I could put myself in a category that there's not many people that have done
02:44which is winning a national championship, winning a Super Bowl.
02:47Three other guys Pete Carroll, Barry Switzer, Jimmy Johnson. That's it.
02:50And I'm the greatest coach of all time. So imagine if I could do it in
02:53the NCAA and win a national championship there.
02:56To me I just think like then it goes back to
03:01yeah he wants to set his kids his son up. But you said he could do that in the
03:04NFL. I believe he could do it in the NFL but this is just the way to guarantee it.
03:08But what but yeah I don't think you believe that he could be the full guy in
03:12charge of the Jaguars. No no I don't yeah I believe that but I
03:15don't think when I say set his son up in the NFL
03:17I mean set his son up for a head coaching job in college
03:20at some point if he's still coaching. But we were saying earlier he was on the
03:24track of doing that with Washington. Right but this is a
03:27guarantee. Is he gonna go on the road recruiting guys?
03:30Nah. I think he goes like to get the big hitters.
03:34In all sincerity I said this last week. But is like Jordan gonna drive him?
03:37Or like why not? But like I think Ninko said it on Friday
03:41this is gonna be like Dion on steroids. How much NIL money is gonna funnel into
03:45UNC's? He's not gonna have to he's barely gonna have to lift a finger to
03:48get these kids. But my thing is and I mean this sincerely as a father I
03:52respect the crap out of this. Like I think it's awesome. I said that
03:55last week the first one to say it the reason Bill's doing this and that I
03:59would support it is that he's supporting his family.
04:01My thing as a observer of the NFL and someone who has watched Bill Belichick
04:06compete at the highest level this is a letdown because we all wanted
04:11Bill Belichick in the NFL to compete in the AFC's. Did Bill replace Sean
04:15McDermott with Buffalo? How great would that be?
04:17Yeah. It would be awesome. Oh I mean you heard Boomer say it this morning
04:22Giants fans are screaming for Bill Belichick.
04:25That's why I feel like he he'll have jobs out there. If he takes this job
04:30maybe he's just like in a he's saying I for me I want a new challenge and I
04:36want to see if I can you know win a national championship.
04:41Because we all believe that he would get a head coaching job. Like I believe
04:46that wholeheartedly. If but if he takes this
04:49job I think it's I want a new challenge and I can guarantee my son
04:55will be a head coach. Here is the great Al from Everett. Hello Al. Happy holidays.
05:02Happy holidays guys. How are you Greg? Good? Doing great. How are you?
05:09UNC!
05:13Oh this is so embarrassing. Hey Greg aren't you sick of being wrong?
05:17If you lay you lie with dogs you get fleas buddy.
05:20You give it up. He did nobody wants him. I told you this for years. He's a
05:26most overrated sports person in NFL history.
05:30I've been telling you this. What about you? I want to know something else.
05:34UNC. Okay talk about Chris Curtis. Talk about the cherry on top.
05:38For Tom Brady and the exposure of Bill Belichick.
05:42You know I've been meaning to call you. You get this.
05:45You're so quick. I mean oh they don't want him. He's being blackballed.
05:49It's not that nobody just wants him and that the owners haven't been paying
05:53attention. That the guy can't pick an offensive
05:55player to save his life and and that he treated Tom Brady like a
05:58dog in the street. No has nothing to do with any of that stuff. They don't pay
06:01attention to that stuff. No you know what's going on. Gerard Mayo
06:05is in a total rebuild. He can't tell you that. And
06:09listening to you guys crap all over him and defend that
06:12tweet that did what he did all these years
06:16is insufferable. And I'll tell you right now next Monday
06:19I you got my number over there. Let me on and let me let me let me give
06:24Gerard Mayo some props. Let me tell him what you but
06:27it's ridiculous. The guy is on the right track.
06:30This kid and you're right Shine. This quarterback is for real. I told you
06:34before the season. Lose every game. Lose every game.
06:40So we have to say this though. I didn't. I thought you hung up guys.
06:44Lose every game. Get the first pick. Get two of your best offensive linemen.
06:49That's how you rebuild. What are you guys talking about in there?
06:52You you want to win why? So you can get ratings? Is that why you want to why do
06:55you want to win these games right? I like I just happen to like tuning in
07:01and watching a team that is competitive. Oh so you're selfish.
07:04Yes I'm selfish. You know how to rebuild in the NFL.
07:09Are you telling me you actually believe that there is not a team in the NFL
07:14who is going to be firing or has fired a head coach
07:18that would that that would not have interest in Bill Belichick. Not at all.
07:22I've been telling you that for four years. I told you he's going to get
07:25fired and I told you it wasn't going to get hired.
07:27Can we just say now that Robert Kraft was right?
07:31No no he they know who he is Greg. I'm making subs in downtown Boston. I know
07:36who he is. I've been following his career his whole life.
07:39Forget that. Forget that. Why do you you need to get the first pick? That's how
07:44you rebuild. You got the quarterback. Shine was on it. I don't watch college.
07:48This kid is for real Shine. This kid is for real.
07:51Yes he is Al. And all you need to do is lose out.
07:55Get the first pick. Trade down for the two best linemen in the country.
07:59Get a receiver and get something. And about Elliot Wolfe.
08:02Do any of you guys in there even know who Elliot Wolfe's father was? Yes.
08:06We were just talking about the Packers. Yes. Yeah he's a hall of fame.
08:09Yes. One of the best. Ron Wolfe. One of the best. And he was close.
08:13And Wiggy. He was close to Parcells. Two of the best GMs in the history of the
08:17game. If something had of something had to rub
08:20off on this guy. So give this guy a chance too.
08:22All right Al. So far so good. Al I'm glad we got to speak to you
08:26during the holidays. I will tell you that the chicken
08:28pesto with the tomatoes is an award-winning sandwich
08:31over there. Greg. Greg. Sports is sports.
08:35I love you. You're one of the best. You're a great philanthropist.
08:38All that stuff. But when it comes to this stuff.
08:42UNC Greggo. UNC. The cherry on top. Can I just say Robert Kraft was right.
08:50About what? Bill. About what do you mean? Moving on from
08:54Bill. The rest of the league has shown you that he wasn't an NFL coach.
08:57I mean are you gonna wait until he takes the job or? Right if he takes the job
09:01Robert Kraft is right. Greg. Greg. Bill will be the head coach
09:04of UNC by Friday. Wow. Really? I'll plant my flag on that.
09:08Ken is gonna cry. This is such a great week. I can't wait.
09:11It's gonna be so great. I'm so excited. What a great job by Kraft. Way to read the
09:16landscape perfectly. The crazy part about it is that's
09:19gonna be the narrative. That is gonna be the narrative that
09:22people try to spin on it. Is that. It's not a spin. It's a fact.
09:27Every other team has had the opportunity to sign him. He's going to college.
09:31He went to. No no because if he goes to college it's
09:33gonna be it's gonna happen before NFL teams have the ability to hire him.
09:37So last year he was passed over. He had the opportunity to interview
09:42in Atlanta and Atlanta was the team that decided to go with Rodney Morris. And they said
09:46that that he wasn't even a finalist for the job.
09:48Right. So they were they were right about it last year. If he decides to go to
09:52college that don't mean that the NFL was right because
09:56he's choosing not to wait till the NFL season is over. Right. If Tom Brady was
10:00cut and he never got another NFL job it would have been clearly the right
10:03decision by Belichick to release him. But he left and won a Super Bowl. In this
10:08case Robert Kraft fired Bill Belichick and he didn't get another job so he
10:12looks to be right for firing. Right. He didn't get another job that following
10:15year. Right. So this year if he goes to North Carolina.
10:18It's not because he didn't get another job. It's because he chose to go to
10:21college rather than. That may be how you feel. It's not the way the history will view it.
10:25That's my point. The narrative will be written. It's not a narrative.
10:28Well the narrative will be written that he he just he was fired from his job.
10:33And never got another NFL game. And didn't get a head coaching job and
10:36then decided to go to college. And that one year that he was trying to get back
10:40into the NFL no one hired him. This is unbelievable.
10:44Hello. This is Bill from New London Connecticut. Hello Bill.
10:48Hey how you doing. What's up. Hey just thought on Bill.
10:54Do you think maybe it's twofold that possibly he's trying to set his son up.
11:00But then maybe at the same token he's trying to learn how to
11:04work with the younger players. Maybe he'll work with them for a year or two.
11:10And then go to the NFL when he's 70. Yeah. Or years. I don't. Yeah. I don't know.
11:17No. I mean I love the conspiracy theories. No I don't. Set your kid up.
11:22I mean I guess maybe he's looking at it like a challenge.
11:25Like it's something he hasn't done. Yeah. His best buddy did it forever.
11:30It is interesting when a bunch of his friends are in college football right now too.
11:33I mean Bill O'Brien's at B.C. Jed Fish is at Washington.
11:37What's the first thing someone who's been laid off says.
11:39Oh I get to spend more time with the family.
11:41Mm hmm. That's they would. Yeah they generally do that.
11:44Right. Till those checks start drying up.
11:46Exactly. Do you ever wake up in the night and scream I hate Bill Belichick.
11:51Yes. Well if you can't argue the facts you can say it's personal.
11:54But what if I said that's wrong. I hate Bill. I hate Bill. I hate Bill.
11:57Could you imagine after Bill was fired here you guys thinking that he would
12:01never get another NFL job. It would have been laughed at. It would have been blasphemy.
12:06I believe the teams that are there because they're going to be a ton of teams I think
12:10that are going to be looking for head coaches. Great job by Robert Kraft man.
12:14And the fact that one of these teams wouldn't hire him.
12:18That would that's that would be stunning to me.
12:21I don't believe it. I don't believe it either.
12:25I think if you look and you go because we all said it and like everybody said everybody says
12:30it now even with Bill on Cowboys fans. Can you imagine what the Cowboys record be with Bill.
12:35We do it here. Can you imagine what the record be with Bill.
12:38So there's no way if you're an owner that's sitting there watching this you're a Giants fan
12:42going. Why the hell wouldn't we hire Bill Belichick. John Mara has had Joe Judge and
12:46Brian Dayball. Right. Both Belichick coaches who didn't have the quarterback and they failed
12:50miserably. Why not get the guy. Because the guy without the quarterback is just like the other
12:54guy. Oh we don't know that. That's the problem. There's 10 years of evidence. Where. Of Bill
12:59Belichick coaching without a great quarterback. Where was this. Pre Tom Brady. All right so pre
13:05Tom Brady and after Tom Brady he coached what. Five or six losing seasons. Four years with the
13:10Browns. Five. Was it five years with the Browns. He coached. And they made the playoffs. Right.
13:15Five or six losing seasons. They made the playoffs. Right. Then. So five of six losing
13:19seasons. Then he won three Super Bowls. Correct. He won three Super Bowls with Tom Brady but Tom
13:26Brady wasn't the guy at the time. Is he going to be okay with his quarterback in college making
13:32more money than he is as the head coach. Well that ain't going to happen. It doesn't need to
13:37happen because in college football as Jim Harbaugh just showed you last year you can still win
13:41playing defensive running the football which is exactly what Bill wants to do. Like that's I think
13:46this makes all the sense in the world. He doesn't have to worry about having some egomaniac at
13:50quarterback. Right. He wants to run the football play defense and and coach with his kids. Like
13:55he it's a win win win across the board for the guy. He'll have to give up some money though.
13:59Like the NIL he'll have to give up some money. He might not be in on like the Bryce Underwood who's
14:05going to cost you 12 million but he'll be in on you know a good transfer portal kid that will be
14:10you know will give you some money. But I think ultimately when you start to the way the landscape
14:16is and I talked about this with my lead the way the landscape looks now in college football
14:21you can easily get a program and turn a program around. Look at Indiana. Indiana went from
14:28Cignetti who I believe he was. Why do I want to say he was JMU last year but he turned that
14:34program around there in the playoffs. SMU in the playoffs and they were on the you know the
14:40death sentence whatever it was. Yeah. Boise State in the playoffs. So all these teams have a legitimate
14:47chance. He needs to get the Michigan Sign Stealer on his staff. Connor Stallions. He'll have that
14:53guy. He'll be Ernie Adams. Oh is everybody coming back? Oh yeah. You don't think so? I just hope
15:00Ernie will be sidelines at like at Virginia Tech like. What about Bearish? Is he going to leave
15:05Bill O'Reilly? Good question. That's an interesting one. I just hope they have somebody else to pick
15:11out the right wide receivers at UNC. Everything else should be okay. I don't think he has leaves.
15:15This is Greg from Marshfield. What's up Greg? Hey good morning everybody and happy holidays. Hey
15:21refresh my memory and I think a lot of you guys went along with it. Wasn't one of the biggest
15:26complaints about Bill was he was having a hard time relating to the new NFL players the younger
15:33guys? Yes. And now he's going to be dealing with literally high school kids. Right. That is what
15:39he's going to be doing. What a shock. Honestly in a million years I would never have said he's
15:44going to go to the ACC and coach North Carolina. No. I would say Alabama. Texas. Michigan. Ohio
15:55State. Ohio State. There could be an opening at Ohio State. Greg we have to get the play I cook
16:00up for Bill O'Brien to be used against Bill Belichick. I can't wait to see. They don't play
16:04in 2025. Let me see if they play in 2026. By the way your boys are going to be at alumni next year
16:11weeks. Yeah BC. Yep. UMass plays BC. It is and it listen and there's not a former player
16:20out there because Brady and Edelman and Gronk myself. Those guys all said they don't believe
16:25he'll go to college. I don't either. Yesterday. I I would be absolutely shocked. Like I would be
16:32shocked if he went to college. Like I would be like stunned. I'd be like I'd have to I'd have
16:37to really be thinking like why? You know because I I believe he if he waits he'll get a head
16:45coaching job back in the NFL and then you know no problem. If he goes to college okay why? Wild.
16:53Is it really? So wild. Is it really like to guarantee your son because you could say all
16:59right I'm going to coach four more years but I can guarantee my son that he'll be a head coach
17:06for the next you know 10 15 you know whatever like you know you can guarantee his future at
17:12being a head coach in college. But I just don't get it because you guys are right. I was wrong
17:17a lot about Steve Belichick. Like he clearly did a better job than I gave him credit for last year
17:22given despite all the injuries which obviously have impacted the play. Yeah. Covington has not
17:26been what I thought he would be. Right. I didn't think they'd miss Steve Belichick. It turns out
17:30they may have missed him. Yeah. He according to Wiggy he's done a pretty good job at Washington.
17:34He seems to be on a decent trajectory. But it's no guarantee though. But would you want to be
17:39Steve where your dad's the coach and then everybody knows you're only getting the gig
17:42because it's in waiting? Yeah but I wouldn't care. Unless you don't have aspirations of being some
17:46great football coach and you just you're content you know kind of just doing your thing and coaching
17:51football and coaching with your dad. But it could be that they really enjoy working together. Yeah
17:55exactly. You know and he doesn't mind that he could be like if my dad doesn't help me get a
18:01head coaching job it might be a harder challenge for me because people will be just like oh um
18:07he's just Bill's son it was all Bill Bill Bill. But at least if my dad puts me in position now
18:12when I become the head coach it's clearly on me to make it. Do you know what we said myself
18:17included when Bill was let go? Why didn't they trade him for something? In hindsight how silly
18:23is that? There's not a job for the guy. You believe that? I don't believe that. I mean the
18:31notion that he would choose to go to college over coaching the NFL is absurd. There's no NFL team
18:37that can even talk to him. Oh you don't think Tom and Bill would talk? Tom runs the Raiders. Their
18:42coach is going to get fired. So you don't think Tom would want Bill at Vegas? No shot in hell.
18:48You don't think the Bears would want him? As just the head coach? The Bears are interviewing
18:54Vrabel? Is that accurate? I haven't seen that. I wouldn't be shocked. That's a smart person.
19:00My guess is given Bill's experience with young quarterbacks and given the fact that you want
19:04to build something that won't be taken down in three years that the Bears would prefer Vrabel
19:08or Brian Flores or someone like that. Cincinnati I believe they're going to be firing their coach.
19:13You think they're going to fire Zack Taylor? Yes they are. They let Marvin Lewis be there for like
19:1615 years and he didn't win anything. Cleveland's going to fire their coach. Dallas is going to
19:21fire their coach. Jacksonville we already know what direction they're going in. Did they already
19:28fire Doug Peterson? No. Okay but they will fire him. And Cleveland's not firing Stephane. New
19:33Orleans is going to be looking for a new coach. Vegas we already know. I think there's a lot of
19:37us that believe they'll be looking for a new coach. The Giants will be looking for a new coach
19:42and the Jets will be looking and I believe if the Bucks don't do anything they'll be looking
19:48for a new coach. So there are going to be plenty of teams. So you think Bill's agent because Bill
19:53can't speak has heard from these teams that are going to be firing their coach and they're
19:56interested in Bill and Bill said don't want to hear it I'm going to UNC. No I think what happens
20:01is these teams are going hey does Bill really want a coach? Like how serious is he and how serious is
20:09he about working maybe potentially with a GM that's already in place and Bill says. But when
20:14has Bill ever not been serious about coaching? No no because that was kind of like the conversation
20:18he's doing a great job he's got a million different things he might not want to come back
20:22and coach and Bill goes hey if these NFL teams kind of think I'm wavering a little bit here's
20:27how I'm going to prove that I still want to coach. I'm going to do an interview at UNC.
20:32Well he must be serious if he's willing to interview at UNC. If I'm Jacksonville and I'm
20:38Shaad Khan I'm like well damn let's get Bill in here. Can we make a prediction potentially? Yes.
20:44Pat McAfee at one o'clock today Bill makes an announcement. I don't think he's going to do
20:49that. I don't know that's where they had the Aaron Rodgers Devontae Adams right there. Yeah maybe.
20:53It's wide open now for college coaches. And if you're looking to get young kids Pat McAfee
20:57right in that demo. Great spot to be.