Barring something unforeseen, Bill Belichick will not be a head coach in the NFL next season despite several interviews to try and get a job. For ESPN’s Marcus Spears there was one unfortunate comparison that he found most apt.
Appearing on NFL Live, Spears compared the situation with Belichick interviewing for head coaching jobs to older people going to a nightclub. Spears explained that it’s just not the same for Belichick now as it once was when he might have been a top candidate for any job.
“You know what it is? It’s when it’s time to stop going to the club… You get to the club and you’re 40 and you’re looking around and you’re like ‘What the hell are these young kids doing? I can’t believe I acted like that one day.’ And that’s what it is… It is the fact that he has not come to focus with an offense and if you look over the past few years it has been bad…” Spears said.
Glossing over the somewhat wild notion of Bill Belichick going out to a club at any age, there certainly is a sense out there that Belichick simply isn’t in tune with what the NFL expects and demands of coaches anymore.
.@mspears96 compared Bill Belichick interviewing with NFL teams to old people in the club 😅 pic.twitter.com/1e7OZpqQGg
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) January 26, 2024
Bill Belichick made a number of gambles on himself in recent years, from believing that Tom Brady couldn’t win titles for him anymore to drafting Mac Jones as Brady’s heir-apparent to continuing to spend high draft capital on offensive linemen and special teams stars.
Nearly all of those gambles failed and the end result is a seemingly diminished reputation for Belichick as both a personnel executive and as a coach on gameday.
Do you think Marcus Spears got the comparison right here?