Cowboys: “The Unidentified Team” We would not have Belichick on staff.
Bill Belichick was “a hot candidate,” the subject of a “bidding war,” and unavoidably headed to be employed by a “mystery team,” according to his national media water-carriers! … The Dallas Cowboys are the team that remains unseen. Of course, it was all nonsense; tweets, articles, and broadcasts touting Belichick’s amazing abilities had no bearing on the conceited and garish Cowboys’ final decision.
And despite making no difference to the Atlanta Falcons, one of the NFL’s relative underdogs. The highly respected defensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams, Raheem Morris, was hired by the Falcons as their head coach on Thursday. They took this action despite a deluge of rumors spanning three months, all claiming that Bill would be so highly sought after (by the Cowboys and other teams) that poor Atlanta would never stand a chance to sign him.
He was interviewed twice by lowly Atlanta. then spoke with roughly fourteen more men. Subsequently, it became apparent that Belichick wasn’t just “hot” (no one else had interviewed the legendary Patriots player) but also that the Falcons weren’t willing to give him authority in the building. stated his intention was to appoint friends who haven’t demonstrated their competence in their roles in recent years. That he would settle for that position because he wanted a “small-market” and “underachieving” team, and that he was even prepared to stage a mockery of Atlanta.
How are the “mystery teams” doing? It is not a mystery. They never were.
Belichick is seventy-one. He has had a terrible Patriots program for about five years. Last season, he had a 4-13 record at the end. There’s no proof that the “culture” was good there.
Furthermore, the Falcons are aware that Tom Brady will not be entering Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
We presume something to be untrue since it seems absurd. Belichick guided the Patriots to six Super Bowl triumphs, nine AFC titles, seventeen AFC East crowns, and 296 total regular season and postseason victories. And now, all of a sudden, he’s afraid that too many reporters will attend a press conference?
Insider Says Raheem Morris ‘Killed’ the Falcons interview
Is Bill Belichick a “better” coach than Raheem Morris?Though that seems a long way off right now, history will tell us.
Is Raheem Morris “better” than Bill Belichick as a coach for this club, this time, this location, and this town?
misplaced his fastball? Or have the Falcons of Atlanta gone insane?
The highly respected defensive coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams, Raheem Morris, was hired by the Falcons as their head coach on Thursday. Furthermore, there is nothing “wrong” with that.
However, how is Raheem Morris “better” than the storied head coach of the New England Patriots?
We will undoubtedly find out more in the next few hours about the inner workings of the Morris hire as well; the Falcons will be thrilled to provide those wonderful secrets. However, there’s also a horrible underbelly somewhere in here. Owner Arthur Blank listened to team executives, including CEO Rich McKay, who were bending Belichick’s ear about their want to safeguard their desks or, if you’re a cynic, perform their jobs. Could this be because Belichick wanted too much power, all the power?
The world is going to find out for sure. Belichick undoubtedly believed he could have influence in this situation.
Did Belichick’s supporters in the media fabricate a fictitious “hot market” for him? He has only conducted two interviews with the Falcons thus far. All the other “bidders,” where are they? The teams that the national media said were “enamored of him”โwhere are they? The Dallas Cowboys, one of the “mystery teams” who was going to recruit him but never even gave him a call, are nowhere to be found.
The world is about to learn that it is true that the Falcons reevaluated the landscape, found a “not-hot” prospect in old Bill, and the next thing you know, they interviewed a whopping 14 individuals.
What if Blank and his team finally brought up the fact that Belichick, 71, has spent the last five years as the uncompromising decision-maker in charge of a subpar Patriots program? He was arguably exposed without Tom Brady, missing the playoffs three of the previous four years and ending the last season with a 4-13 record.
Furthermore, while the notion of Belichick “automatically changing the culture” in Atlanta sounded fantastic, it left the Falcons questioning what the “culture” had been like during the previous four years since Foxboro was lost.
Since Jerry Jones chose to keep Mike McCarthy on staff, we have been writing for weeks that Dallas did not justify our belief that the Cowboys were the “mystery team” that the media had been hyping. Bill Belichick is not even wanted by the Falcons, as we now know.
And why not, for what reasons? There isn’t really any “mystery” to that.