NFL Insider Questions Head Coach Bill Belichick Future With Patriots

The New England Patriots lost six games in the regular season and hit the rock bottom of the AFC East. Their 6-6 record shocked analysts who praised Bill Belichick and his offseason efforts and some even say that his future with the Patriots may be hanging in the air.

Belichick is the best head coach in league history. He makes the right moves at the right time and the Patriots won six titles in the last two decades. Yes, they had a few bad seasons and things were a bit rough after Tom Brady’s departure, but Belichick has a nice team to work with this season. Where did things go wrong? Is it because of the new coaching staff? The new offensive system?

NFL insider Peter King has a bold theory about Belichick and his career. King has a reason to believe that the longtime Patriots head coach could finish his NFL career with another team. Does this make sense? Belichick is also the Patriots de facto general manager.

“I think I’ve started to wonder — and I emphasize started — whether Bill Belichick, who needs 21 wins to break Don Shula’s all-time record for coaching victories, will get them in New England,” King wrote in his Football Morning in America column.

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King and other analysts watched the Patriots lose the game to the Buffalo Bills. He pinpointed to the fact that the Bills played without two star players and managed to beat the Patriots. What happened on the field?

“I think that game Thursday night said this to me: The Bills have become to New England what the Patriots were to Buffalo for two decades,” King wrote. “Not to put Josh Allen on a Tom Brady trajectory, but just in terms of football, the gap between Allen and Jones is worrisome for New England, and the talent gap between the depth of the Brandon Beane Bills and the Bill Belichick Patriots is big. That gap has led to the Bills winning the last three games in the series by an average of 19 points. Amazing to consider that the Patriots really aren’t close to Buffalo now. To triple-down on the differences between the two teams, consider how non-competitive that game felt.

“Buffalo was playing without two of its five most important defensive players, Von Miller and Micah Hyde, and still controlled the ball for 38 minutes. Midway through the fourth quarter, with the Bills up 24-7, New England, needing three scores, had the most painful, clunky drive imaginable—17 plays, taking almost six minutes, and getting just a field goal out of it. Six incompletions on the drive. When it was over, and Buffalo got the ensuing onside kick, Belichick didn’t even bother to use his three timeouts to try to get the ball back. He white-flagged the last two minutes. That’s how hopeless this felt.”