I really didn’t know my own power: For a year now, I’ve been writing about how Bill Belichick is overrated, and it seems NFL owners have been listening. Although the former Patriots coach wants to keep coaching, it seems he can’t get a job. Only one of the seven other teams with a vacancy at head coach — the Atlanta Falcons — even interviewed him, and they ultimately hired Raheem Morris instead.
There are still two teams with openings, but Belichick is reportedly unlikely to get either job. Instead, he’s expected to spend 2024 in media, before possibly returning to a sideline in 2025, when he’ll be 73 years old.
And I have to confess that even I find this baffling. I’d love to claim vindication, and point to this as proof that people have been persuaded by my “Belichick’s success was all labor appropriation” Take… but I don’t think that’s what is going on. Belichick’s reputation as a coach is undiminished — the real reason teams aren’t hiring him is that the front office executives in charge of hiring coaches are reluctant to hire someone who will immediately become more powerful than them within the organization. Really, this is an internal conflict within the professional class, and case study in why “merit-based hiring” is a bullshit idea.
But you’re not going to trick me into feeling bad for Belichick…
Eventually I’ll stop writing about this guy, I promise.
Already like 80% of the Super Bowl coverage I’ve seen has been about the betting lines… Enough!
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