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That is so awesome. Matt Light's verbose email back was so lame and I loved Belichick's email response of "Stop using multi-syllable words neither of us understand. I'm not impressed."
What a legendary time. You can't tell me these players weren't having fun and loving Belichick.
The longtime NFL coach started dating the 24-year-old former cheerleader after splitting from Linda Holliday
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Bill Belichick ; Jordon Hudson
Bill Belichick and his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, have been quietly dating for over a year.
The former New England Patriots coach, 72, began seeing Hudson, 24, in early 2023 after his split from girlfriend of 16 years, Linda Holliday. Hudson, who is 48 years younger than Belichick, is a former cheerleader at Bridgewater State University.
The two reportedly first met in February 2021 while Hudson was a college student. They’ve been spotted on numerous occasions, but their relationship wasn’t confirmed until June 2024.
So who is Bill Belichick’s girlfriend? Here’s everything to know about Jordon Hudson and her relationship with the former NFL coach.
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Jordon Hudson graduating from cosmetology school in November 2019
While she was in high school, Hudson simultaneously enrolled in cosmetology school at the New England Hair Academy and commuted daily while balancing her academics, she wrote on Instagram in November 2019.
She continued attending classes at cosmetology school while she was in college, working on her degree online and participating in cheerleading practice at nights. In November 2019, she graduated.
“After many trials, tribulations, countless sacrifices and a few last minute trips to Texas, I have found myself to the end of this incredible year of growth,” she wrote in the caption of her post commemorating her graduation.
Jordon Hudson/Instagram
Jordon Hudson at a competition with her cheerleading squad
Hudson attended Bridgewater State University, where she was a cheerleader. In 2021, she and her team were NCA Collegiate Champions.
She decided to continue her career after graduating and joined the East Celebrity Elite cheer squad, competing with the group in February 2024 to go on to the World Championships.
“I’d like to put out how grateful I am for the sport that kept me anchored through difficult seasons of adolescence and young adulthood, engrained resilience, discipline, and punctuality into my bones…and brought me lifelong friends,” Hudson wrote in an Instagram tribute on National Women in Sports Day.
"Thanks for giving me a course on logic!” he wrote, per a photo obtained by the outlet.
Maddie Meyer/Getty; Jordon Hudson/Instagram
Bill Belichick; Jordon Hudson
Though neither addressed their relationship, Belichick and Hudson were spotted together throughout 2023, with fans posting snaps of their appearances together on Instagram.
In January 2023, the couple were seen walking through the French Quarter in New Orleans and in September the same year, they were again spotted in the city on a dinner date.
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
Tom Brady and Bill Belichick speak onstage during G.R.O.A.T The Greatest Roast Of All Time: Tom Brady for the Netflix is a Joke Festival at The Kia Forum on May 05, 2024 in Inglewood, California
Belichick’s former Patriots team members didn’t spare him from their roasts during The Roast of Tom Brady in May 2024, teasing him for his and Hudson’s large age difference.
Rob Gronkowski quipped, “Coach, you used to talk about Foxborough High School when we sucked. But now I know why you were so obsessed with Foxborough High School: you were scouting your new girlfriend.”
Tom Brady also chimed in, poking fun at Belichick sneaking out of her home in the early morning.
"When somebody asked me which ring was my favorite, I used to say, ‘The next one,' ” he said. “Now that I’m retired, my favorite is that Ring camera that caught Coach Belichick slinking out of that poor girl’s house at 6 a.m. a few months ago."
AP; Jordon Hudson/Instagram
Bill Belichick ; Jordon Hudson
Bill Belichick and his girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, have been quietly dating for over a year.
The former New England Patriots coach, 72, began seeing Hudson, 24, in early 2023 after his split from girlfriend of 16 years, Linda Holliday. Hudson, who is 48 years younger than Belichick, is a former cheerleader at Bridgewater State University.
The two reportedly first met in February 2021 while Hudson was a college student. They’ve been spotted on numerous occasions, but their relationship wasn’t confirmed until June 2024.
So who is Bill Belichick’s girlfriend? Here’s everything to know about Jordon Hudson and her relationship with the former NFL coach.
She went to cosmetology school
Jordon Hudson/Instagram
Jordon Hudson graduating from cosmetology school in November 2019
While she was in high school, Hudson simultaneously enrolled in cosmetology school at the New England Hair Academy and commuted daily while balancing her academics, she wrote on Instagram in November 2019.
She continued attending classes at cosmetology school while she was in college, working on her degree online and participating in cheerleading practice at nights. In November 2019, she graduated.
“After many trials, tribulations, countless sacrifices and a few last minute trips to Texas, I have found myself to the end of this incredible year of growth,” she wrote in the caption of her post commemorating her graduation.
She was a cheerleader in college
Jordon Hudson/Instagram
Jordon Hudson at a competition with her cheerleading squad
Hudson attended Bridgewater State University, where she was a cheerleader. In 2021, she and her team were NCA Collegiate Champions.
She decided to continue her career after graduating and joined the East Celebrity Elite cheer squad, competing with the group in February 2024 to go on to the World Championships.
“I’d like to put out how grateful I am for the sport that kept me anchored through difficult seasons of adolescence and young adulthood, engrained resilience, discipline, and punctuality into my bones…and brought me lifelong friends,” Hudson wrote in an Instagram tribute on National Women in Sports Day.
She reportedly met Belichick on a flight in February 2021
Belichick and Hudson first reportedly met in February 2021 when they were seated next to each other on a flight from the Boston area to Florida, per TMZ. The outlet reported that Belichick signed one of Hudson’s textbooks, Deductive Logic."Thanks for giving me a course on logic!” he wrote, per a photo obtained by the outlet.
They were spotted together throughout 2023
Maddie Meyer/Getty; Jordon Hudson/Instagram
Bill Belichick; Jordon Hudson
Though neither addressed their relationship, Belichick and Hudson were spotted together throughout 2023, with fans posting snaps of their appearances together on Instagram.
In January 2023, the couple were seen walking through the French Quarter in New Orleans and in September the same year, they were again spotted in the city on a dinner date.
Former Patriots roasted Belichick for dating a younger woman at The Roast of Tom Brady
Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty
Tom Brady and Bill Belichick speak onstage during G.R.O.A.T The Greatest Roast Of All Time: Tom Brady for the Netflix is a Joke Festival at The Kia Forum on May 05, 2024 in Inglewood, California
Belichick’s former Patriots team members didn’t spare him from their roasts during The Roast of Tom Brady in May 2024, teasing him for his and Hudson’s large age difference.
Rob Gronkowski quipped, “Coach, you used to talk about Foxborough High School when we sucked. But now I know why you were so obsessed with Foxborough High School: you were scouting your new girlfriend.”
Tom Brady also chimed in, poking fun at Belichick sneaking out of her home in the early morning.
"When somebody asked me which ring was my favorite, I used to say, ‘The next one,' ” he said. “Now that I’m retired, my favorite is that Ring camera that caught Coach Belichick slinking out of that poor girl’s house at 6 a.m. a few months ago."
Belichick and Hudson’s relationship was confirmed in June 2024
Though the couple had been spotted together numerous times, their relationship wasn’t confirmed until June 2024, with TMZ first reporting the news.
Belichick was back in town for Tom Brady’s Patriots Hall of Fame induction. It was his first time back at Gillette Stadium since splitting with the team back in January.
The Patriots uploaded a video of Belichick arriving backstage and visiting with some of his former players. At the beginning of the video, there’s an emotional moment capturing a long embrace between Belichick and Hall of Fame wide receiver Randy Moss.
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Belichick spent 24 years as the Patriots’ head coach, and in that time, he has helped deliver some of the greatest sports memories to fans.
It’s no surprise he’s as beloved as he is by the New England faithful. The Patriots captured lightning in a bottle with the greatest coach of all time with Belichick and the greatest quarterback with Brady.
The dynasty was only possible because those two co-existed, and Patriots fans will forever be glad they did.
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I'm noticing a pattern here.
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Jordon Hudson's 64-Year-Old Ex Defends Her Amid Bill Belichick Romance
Jordon Hudson's 64-year-old former lover is racing to her defense ... blasting haters who have accused her of being a gold digger for her romance with Bill Belichick -- while praising her as "wise beyond her years."
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When coach Bill Belichick took the podium at Tom Brady’s Roast, he used the opportunity to take a dig at the 10-part docuseries “The Dynasty” about the great New England Patriots teams he coached.
“I’m so honored to be here for the roast of Tom Brady on Netflix,” said Belichick. “It’s not to be confused with the roast of Bill Belichick on the 10-part Apple TV series.”
This sentiment that “The Dynasty” has an anti-Belichick slant, has been stoked publicly by former players (some of whom participated in the documentary) and had gasoline thrown on it by the Boston sports media. In an interview with IndieWire, director Matt Hamachek brushed aside the criticism.
“I certainly had no dog in this fight,” said Hamachek. “I think that a lot of the reaction probably stems from Bill no longer being on the team.”
What Hamachek is pointing to is how the docuseries’ biggest twist, and the culmination of backstage drama it captured, happened off-screen one month prior to the docuseries’ debut: In January 2024, Belichick was pushed out of the organization by Patriots owner Robert Kraft, after coaching the team for 24 seasons and to six Super Bowl Championships.
“I’m still shocked,” said Hamachek, after spending three years reporting on the inner-workings of the Patriots. “I thought that Bill Belichick would basically be there until he retires, leaving on his own terms, and after he broke [Don] Shula’s record [for most coaching wins].”
Hamachek was picture locked when the Belichick news hit ESPN, but acknowledged it is impossible to not see his docuseries through the postscript lens of Kraft exiting the coach, who many have called (including Kraft) the greatest of all-time.
“I have no idea what went into the decision making,” said Hamachek. “But if you watch the doc in the context of what happened, and you listen to some of the things that Robert Kraft says, I think you have an understanding, the breadcrumbs are certainly there.”
Kraft, 83, more than anyone, opened up to Hamachek’s camera, talking about things he once publicly denied, including the mounting tension between Belichick and Brady in the final years, his struggle to keep the team together, and the fact he laid the Patriots’ Super Bowl 52 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles at the feet of Belichick for not playing cornerback Malcolm Butler.
“You get through the 2017 season, there were moments where the Krafts [Robert’s son Jonathan is team president] had denied publicly that there was any tension, or that it was dysfunctional,” said Hamachek. “And it turns out that there was other stuff going on there.”
It’s against this back drop that many have argued the series was a Kraft orchestrated hit job of Belichick. Critics point to the fact the series stemmed from author Jeff Benedict’s book of the same name, for which Kraft gave full access, and the Apple TV+ series originated with Kraft’s close personal friend executive producer Brian Glazer.
Kraft himself has distanced himself from the series, saying he wished it was more focused on the team’s success, and making clear that granting access and the “Copyright Kraft Dynasty 2024″ that appears at the end of each episode in no way means the owner had any say in the creative direction of the series, something Hamachek verified in his interview with IndieWire. The Krafts’ spokeperson has gone so far, according to the Boston Globe, as to explain that the Krafts were doing the documentary as a favor for their friends (Glazer and executive producer Ron Howard), not the other way around.
“I obviously can’t speak to the conversations between two very powerful and rich men because I wasn’t on those calls,” said Hamachek of the Glazer and Kraft speculation. “I understand the questions, I guess, it just didn’t really involve me.”
This isn’t an evasive answer, it’s how Hamachek talks — careful to not put anything on the record that he can’t verify, he’s not someone cut out for sports talk radio speculation. For example, when asked if he knows why Belichick benched Butler in Super Bowl 52, the filmmaker paused for multiple seconds before answering, “Not with enough confidence to put anything on the record,” adding he had multiple people who claimed on camera they knew why, but he treated it like speculation he couldn’t put in the series unless corroborated by Belichick or Butler.
It’s along these lines, that Hamachek sees the Kraft-Glazer background as irrelevant to how he made the series. When it came to the interview, he said his pitch to Kraft was the same as what he told every potential subject: “The great thing about documentaries is that you have the opportunity to shape the narrative in a lot of ways. So the stories that you tell will inform me, a person who doesn’t understand anything about the Patriots [beyond having] read the articles and books. But I want to hear what it was actually like inside those rooms.”
Kraft certainly took advantage of this, opening up in surprisingly personal and emotional ways on virtually every controversial subject, even bringing viewers behind closed door to a meeting at his home with Brady and then-wife Gisele Bündchen after the 2016 season, where the heated super-model, according to Kraft, told him Belichick “doesn’t treat my Tommy like a man.”
But it wasn’t just Kraft that opened up for “The Dynasty” cameras. Many of Belichick’s players, who for years followed coach’s edict of not talking to the media, for the first time told stories out of school, something many now regret.
“A lot of the players were really excited to talk,” said Hamachek. “I don’t want to put words in their mouths, but as we started to get them in the chair it felt a little bit like an organization that had kept everybody sort of bottled up for a very long time, this was sort of a release of all of that. Finally, people were going to talk.”
Coming off having just finished “Tiger” — an HBO docuseries about Tiger Woods, in which the famous golfer refused to participate — Hamachek was fully braced to tell the Patriots story without the participation of the franchise’s biggest names, but with “The Dynasty” this collective unburdening had a ripple effect every journalist dreams of happening.
“As I started to talk to one person, they tell you a few stories, and then when you get to the next person you tell them, ‘somebody that I spoke to mentioned this,’ and then they start to talk as well, and you accumulate all this knowledge,” said Hamachek. “And by the time you get to the tenth person, [people] understand that everybody’s talking. And that’s part the job, to make everybody understand that this is a place where we can tell the stories that haven’t been told before.”
The most pleasant surprise for Hamachek was how the mega-superstar Brady approached the documentary.
“At the start of the project, I assumed that [Brady] was going to come in with minders, and hair and makeup, and all of these different people, and he would have a team around him,” said Hamacheck. “[Instead] he drives himself in his car, nobody else is with him, and he just sits down in the chair and says, ‘What do you want to know?’ He came in ready to talk, and he was very open and vulnerable in a way that I don’t think people have really seen him before.”
It took Hamachek over a year to get Belichick in the same chair. The director had multiple phone calls with the Patriots coach, as they talked for several hours before Belichick agreed to participate.
“[Belichick] asked the same questions that everybody asks, ‘What’s your angle? How am I going to be portrayed?’” Hamachek recalled. “I told him the exact thing that I [told] everybody else, which is, ‘You’re going to be portrayed somewhere between the puff piece and the hit piece, and that’s sort of where the truth lies with all of us.’”
While Belichick did talk on camera more than anyone who grew up watching his infamous press conferences could ever imagine, it was not surprising there were topics he refused to touch. This presented Hamachek and his team some difficult choices in the editing room: To what degree do you make clear to the viewer they’ve heard everything Belichick had to say on a topic.
“I had done so many other interviews that I wanted to give [Belichick] the opportunity to comment on all these things, and there were times where we would hang on him, just hang on the silence of it,” Hamachek explained, “Because as we were putting this thing together, someone said, ‘Well, is there anything else? Does he say anything else after this? Because you cut right off of him when he says, ‘I don’t want to talk about that.’ And I wanted to make sure that the audience understood that there was nothing else there. I didn’t chop out some answer that was great.”
These moments of the tight-jawed Belichick sitting in silence, juxtaposed to the openness of others, is awkward to watch, and feeds the narrative that Belichick’s unwillingness to bend, which is ultimately why Brady left New England. The irony of the Belichick-hit-job narrative, is it is clear Hamachek has a great deal of respect for Belichick, and his interpretation of the end of the dynasty, and the last three episodes of his docuseries is different than most in New England.
“The thing that I got out of it also was that these two were perfect for each other,” said Hamachek of Belichick and Brady. “Tom, not only was the freak of nature who lasted for 20 years, he was the subject-your-ego guy… especially after the third Super Bowl and then the 2007 season [in which Brady broke virtually every offensive record], and the fact that even after all the personal success, I’m shocked that he didn’t change earlier.”
While Patriots fans bemoan the Super Bowl that Brady won in Tampa Bay after leaving New England, Hamachek finds it remarkable New England got another 13 seasons out of him after 2007. Once universally accepted as the greatest ever, with movie star good looks and aw shucks personality, Hamachek marvels that Brady continued to buy into Belichick’s “The Patriots Way,” forgoing the privileges of his superstar status, and be, as one teammate put it in the doc, “Belichick’s punching-bag.” That Brady only shifted once he was approaching 40 years old, and after mounting the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history in 2017 (down 28-3 against the Atlanta Falcons), was, in Hamachek’s mind, a long time coming.
“The guy who was always team first, never did anything else, started to do more,” said Hamachek. “I understand everything that Tom did and why he did it. I think it’s very normal and human, but I also think that you can watch this and see Bill as a person who stuck to the principles that he had, and never really wavered, whereas a lot of the things around him start to change.”
“I’m so honored to be here for the roast of Tom Brady on Netflix,” said Belichick. “It’s not to be confused with the roast of Bill Belichick on the 10-part Apple TV series.”
This sentiment that “The Dynasty” has an anti-Belichick slant, has been stoked publicly by former players (some of whom participated in the documentary) and had gasoline thrown on it by the Boston sports media. In an interview with IndieWire, director Matt Hamachek brushed aside the criticism.
“I certainly had no dog in this fight,” said Hamachek. “I think that a lot of the reaction probably stems from Bill no longer being on the team.”
What Hamachek is pointing to is how the docuseries’ biggest twist, and the culmination of backstage drama it captured, happened off-screen one month prior to the docuseries’ debut: In January 2024, Belichick was pushed out of the organization by Patriots owner Robert Kraft, after coaching the team for 24 seasons and to six Super Bowl Championships.
“I’m still shocked,” said Hamachek, after spending three years reporting on the inner-workings of the Patriots. “I thought that Bill Belichick would basically be there until he retires, leaving on his own terms, and after he broke [Don] Shula’s record [for most coaching wins].”
Hamachek was picture locked when the Belichick news hit ESPN, but acknowledged it is impossible to not see his docuseries through the postscript lens of Kraft exiting the coach, who many have called (including Kraft) the greatest of all-time.
“I have no idea what went into the decision making,” said Hamachek. “But if you watch the doc in the context of what happened, and you listen to some of the things that Robert Kraft says, I think you have an understanding, the breadcrumbs are certainly there.”
Kraft, 83, more than anyone, opened up to Hamachek’s camera, talking about things he once publicly denied, including the mounting tension between Belichick and Brady in the final years, his struggle to keep the team together, and the fact he laid the Patriots’ Super Bowl 52 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles at the feet of Belichick for not playing cornerback Malcolm Butler.
“You get through the 2017 season, there were moments where the Krafts [Robert’s son Jonathan is team president] had denied publicly that there was any tension, or that it was dysfunctional,” said Hamachek. “And it turns out that there was other stuff going on there.”
It’s against this back drop that many have argued the series was a Kraft orchestrated hit job of Belichick. Critics point to the fact the series stemmed from author Jeff Benedict’s book of the same name, for which Kraft gave full access, and the Apple TV+ series originated with Kraft’s close personal friend executive producer Brian Glazer.
Kraft himself has distanced himself from the series, saying he wished it was more focused on the team’s success, and making clear that granting access and the “Copyright Kraft Dynasty 2024″ that appears at the end of each episode in no way means the owner had any say in the creative direction of the series, something Hamachek verified in his interview with IndieWire. The Krafts’ spokeperson has gone so far, according to the Boston Globe, as to explain that the Krafts were doing the documentary as a favor for their friends (Glazer and executive producer Ron Howard), not the other way around.
“I obviously can’t speak to the conversations between two very powerful and rich men because I wasn’t on those calls,” said Hamachek of the Glazer and Kraft speculation. “I understand the questions, I guess, it just didn’t really involve me.”
This isn’t an evasive answer, it’s how Hamachek talks — careful to not put anything on the record that he can’t verify, he’s not someone cut out for sports talk radio speculation. For example, when asked if he knows why Belichick benched Butler in Super Bowl 52, the filmmaker paused for multiple seconds before answering, “Not with enough confidence to put anything on the record,” adding he had multiple people who claimed on camera they knew why, but he treated it like speculation he couldn’t put in the series unless corroborated by Belichick or Butler.
It’s along these lines, that Hamachek sees the Kraft-Glazer background as irrelevant to how he made the series. When it came to the interview, he said his pitch to Kraft was the same as what he told every potential subject: “The great thing about documentaries is that you have the opportunity to shape the narrative in a lot of ways. So the stories that you tell will inform me, a person who doesn’t understand anything about the Patriots [beyond having] read the articles and books. But I want to hear what it was actually like inside those rooms.”
Kraft certainly took advantage of this, opening up in surprisingly personal and emotional ways on virtually every controversial subject, even bringing viewers behind closed door to a meeting at his home with Brady and then-wife Gisele Bündchen after the 2016 season, where the heated super-model, according to Kraft, told him Belichick “doesn’t treat my Tommy like a man.”
But it wasn’t just Kraft that opened up for “The Dynasty” cameras. Many of Belichick’s players, who for years followed coach’s edict of not talking to the media, for the first time told stories out of school, something many now regret.
“A lot of the players were really excited to talk,” said Hamachek. “I don’t want to put words in their mouths, but as we started to get them in the chair it felt a little bit like an organization that had kept everybody sort of bottled up for a very long time, this was sort of a release of all of that. Finally, people were going to talk.”
Coming off having just finished “Tiger” — an HBO docuseries about Tiger Woods, in which the famous golfer refused to participate — Hamachek was fully braced to tell the Patriots story without the participation of the franchise’s biggest names, but with “The Dynasty” this collective unburdening had a ripple effect every journalist dreams of happening.
“As I started to talk to one person, they tell you a few stories, and then when you get to the next person you tell them, ‘somebody that I spoke to mentioned this,’ and then they start to talk as well, and you accumulate all this knowledge,” said Hamachek. “And by the time you get to the tenth person, [people] understand that everybody’s talking. And that’s part the job, to make everybody understand that this is a place where we can tell the stories that haven’t been told before.”
The most pleasant surprise for Hamachek was how the mega-superstar Brady approached the documentary.
“At the start of the project, I assumed that [Brady] was going to come in with minders, and hair and makeup, and all of these different people, and he would have a team around him,” said Hamacheck. “[Instead] he drives himself in his car, nobody else is with him, and he just sits down in the chair and says, ‘What do you want to know?’ He came in ready to talk, and he was very open and vulnerable in a way that I don’t think people have really seen him before.”
It took Hamachek over a year to get Belichick in the same chair. The director had multiple phone calls with the Patriots coach, as they talked for several hours before Belichick agreed to participate.
“[Belichick] asked the same questions that everybody asks, ‘What’s your angle? How am I going to be portrayed?’” Hamachek recalled. “I told him the exact thing that I [told] everybody else, which is, ‘You’re going to be portrayed somewhere between the puff piece and the hit piece, and that’s sort of where the truth lies with all of us.’”
While Belichick did talk on camera more than anyone who grew up watching his infamous press conferences could ever imagine, it was not surprising there were topics he refused to touch. This presented Hamachek and his team some difficult choices in the editing room: To what degree do you make clear to the viewer they’ve heard everything Belichick had to say on a topic.
“I had done so many other interviews that I wanted to give [Belichick] the opportunity to comment on all these things, and there were times where we would hang on him, just hang on the silence of it,” Hamachek explained, “Because as we were putting this thing together, someone said, ‘Well, is there anything else? Does he say anything else after this? Because you cut right off of him when he says, ‘I don’t want to talk about that.’ And I wanted to make sure that the audience understood that there was nothing else there. I didn’t chop out some answer that was great.”
These moments of the tight-jawed Belichick sitting in silence, juxtaposed to the openness of others, is awkward to watch, and feeds the narrative that Belichick’s unwillingness to bend, which is ultimately why Brady left New England. The irony of the Belichick-hit-job narrative, is it is clear Hamachek has a great deal of respect for Belichick, and his interpretation of the end of the dynasty, and the last three episodes of his docuseries is different than most in New England.
“The thing that I got out of it also was that these two were perfect for each other,” said Hamachek of Belichick and Brady. “Tom, not only was the freak of nature who lasted for 20 years, he was the subject-your-ego guy… especially after the third Super Bowl and then the 2007 season [in which Brady broke virtually every offensive record], and the fact that even after all the personal success, I’m shocked that he didn’t change earlier.”
While Patriots fans bemoan the Super Bowl that Brady won in Tampa Bay after leaving New England, Hamachek finds it remarkable New England got another 13 seasons out of him after 2007. Once universally accepted as the greatest ever, with movie star good looks and aw shucks personality, Hamachek marvels that Brady continued to buy into Belichick’s “The Patriots Way,” forgoing the privileges of his superstar status, and be, as one teammate put it in the doc, “Belichick’s punching-bag.” That Brady only shifted once he was approaching 40 years old, and after mounting the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history in 2017 (down 28-3 against the Atlanta Falcons), was, in Hamachek’s mind, a long time coming.
“The guy who was always team first, never did anything else, started to do more,” said Hamachek. “I understand everything that Tom did and why he did it. I think it’s very normal and human, but I also think that you can watch this and see Bill as a person who stuck to the principles that he had, and never really wavered, whereas a lot of the things around him start to change.”
What the director calls "the great thing" is, in my opinion, the biggest problem with documentaries.
Former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick may not have been able to find another coaching job during the 2024 cycle, but that doesn't mean he won't be busy during the season.
On Thursday, the NFL announced that Belichick will join the cast of "Insider the NFL" alongside former NFL stars Ryan Clark, Chris Long and Chad Johnson.
View: https://x.com/NFL/status/1811430292458017026
Belichick has already announced that he's appearing on ESPN's "ManningCast" broadcast of Monday Night Football, and he's been great in his spots with Pat McAfee, including during the NFL draft.
Having one of the brightest minds to ever coach the sport be on the analyst desk seems like a great idea, and his mix with the group of former players should be amazing.
On Thursday, the NFL announced that Belichick will join the cast of "Insider the NFL" alongside former NFL stars Ryan Clark, Chris Long and Chad Johnson.
View: https://x.com/NFL/status/1811430292458017026
Belichick has already announced that he's appearing on ESPN's "ManningCast" broadcast of Monday Night Football, and he's been great in his spots with Pat McAfee, including during the NFL draft.
Having one of the brightest minds to ever coach the sport be on the analyst desk seems like a great idea, and his mix with the group of former players should be amazing.
New England Patriots cornerback Marcus Jones has been a do-it-all player for the Patriots since he arrived in the league.
He has made an impact on offense, defense and special teams. His versatility is one of the reasons why Bill Belichick selected him in the third round of the 2022 NFL draft.
The 25-year-old defensive back recently spoke with Dj Pup Dawg about what it was like being drafted by the Patriots.
“My phone started ringing, and I was like, ‘Who’s calling me?’ …I looked and I seen Boston, Massachusetts,” said Jones. “I was just like, ‘I’m gonna need about 4 or 5 coats. I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness, it’s gonna be so cold.'”
Even though Jones only played under Belichick for two seasons, he took enough away from their time together to call him the greatest coach of all time.
“Next thing you know, I ended up getting on the phone and ended up talking to Bill and just being able to play for him, he’s the greatest coach of all time in my opinion,” said Jones. “The hard work and dedication, how he treats players—he treats everyone equal, no matter who it is.
“That’s why that accountability in that organization is so high, and that’s why that standard was there and that’s why that legacy was there. Much respect for Bill and everything like that. Like I said, man, he’s forever the greatest coach of all time to me.”
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Jones’ 2023 season was cut short due to injury after suffering a torn labrum against the Miami Dolphins in Week 2. Now, he is looking to bounce back and become a key part of a Patriots’ secondary that is one of the better units in the NFL.
There is little doubt that Belichick’s name still holds a ton of weight in New England. He will forever be connected to one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports.
It goes without saying that Belichick was one of the tougher coaches in the NFL, but his players got a lot out of it.
He has made an impact on offense, defense and special teams. His versatility is one of the reasons why Bill Belichick selected him in the third round of the 2022 NFL draft.
The 25-year-old defensive back recently spoke with Dj Pup Dawg about what it was like being drafted by the Patriots.
“My phone started ringing, and I was like, ‘Who’s calling me?’ …I looked and I seen Boston, Massachusetts,” said Jones. “I was just like, ‘I’m gonna need about 4 or 5 coats. I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness, it’s gonna be so cold.'”
Even though Jones only played under Belichick for two seasons, he took enough away from their time together to call him the greatest coach of all time.
“Next thing you know, I ended up getting on the phone and ended up talking to Bill and just being able to play for him, he’s the greatest coach of all time in my opinion,” said Jones. “The hard work and dedication, how he treats players—he treats everyone equal, no matter who it is.
“That’s why that accountability in that organization is so high, and that’s why that standard was there and that’s why that legacy was there. Much respect for Bill and everything like that. Like I said, man, he’s forever the greatest coach of all time to me.”
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Jones’ 2023 season was cut short due to injury after suffering a torn labrum against the Miami Dolphins in Week 2. Now, he is looking to bounce back and become a key part of a Patriots’ secondary that is one of the better units in the NFL.
There is little doubt that Belichick’s name still holds a ton of weight in New England. He will forever be connected to one of the greatest dynasties in all of sports.
It goes without saying that Belichick was one of the tougher coaches in the NFL, but his players got a lot out of it.
Cowboys really make the most sense.
- Guaranteed to win 10+ games, which means BB only needs to coach 2 seasons
- Jerruh gets more desperate by the minute
Also, I forgot to mention that the Cowboys draft well, so BB wouldn't need to rebuild the scouting department. It's really plug and play for him.
The New England Patriots and head coach Bill Belichick parted ways this offseason after 24 years working together, and after Belichick failed to get another head coaching opportunity, he's joined the media for this season.
However, those weren't the only available opportunities for Belichick in the football world.
On a recent episode of "The TK Show," San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan told The Athletic's Tim Kawakami that he offered Belichick the team's open defensive coordinator job.
"I did, I threw it out to him," Shanahan said (transcribed by NBC Sports). "He loves football so much that you never know what he ... I can't believe he's not a head coach of a team right now. I know what I would do if I was an owner so that shocks me and the last thing you want to do is insult someone like Bill Belichick. But I know he just loves ball in its simplest form, so I threw it all out to him, whatever he wanted to do, [including defensive coordinator]. I was like 'Would you be interested?' And he was very nice and appreciative and he politely turned me down.
"I'm sure he's going to be back in the league next year and I could be going against him. He could be in the NFC West. It would have sucked if he came here and then he was going against us, so that's the stuff you have to be careful about. But he's the best and I just like talking to him."
Belichick and Shanahan's father, Mike, who was a two-time Super Bowl champion head coach with the Denver Broncos, are long-time friends, so there's obviously a connection there already. But with Belichick's brilliance running San Francisco's defense, and the younger Shanahan's creativity on offense, they would've been favorites for this year's Super Bowl.
However, those weren't the only available opportunities for Belichick in the football world.
On a recent episode of "The TK Show," San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan told The Athletic's Tim Kawakami that he offered Belichick the team's open defensive coordinator job.
"I did, I threw it out to him," Shanahan said (transcribed by NBC Sports). "He loves football so much that you never know what he ... I can't believe he's not a head coach of a team right now. I know what I would do if I was an owner so that shocks me and the last thing you want to do is insult someone like Bill Belichick. But I know he just loves ball in its simplest form, so I threw it all out to him, whatever he wanted to do, [including defensive coordinator]. I was like 'Would you be interested?' And he was very nice and appreciative and he politely turned me down.
"I'm sure he's going to be back in the league next year and I could be going against him. He could be in the NFC West. It would have sucked if he came here and then he was going against us, so that's the stuff you have to be careful about. But he's the best and I just like talking to him."
Belichick and Shanahan's father, Mike, who was a two-time Super Bowl champion head coach with the Denver Broncos, are long-time friends, so there's obviously a connection there already. But with Belichick's brilliance running San Francisco's defense, and the younger Shanahan's creativity on offense, they would've been favorites for this year's Super Bowl.
