Legendary NFL coach Bill Belichick, known for his six Super Bowl wins with the New England Patriots, reportedly turned down an offer to coach the Atlanta Falcons.
Former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason shared this information, suggesting that Belichick may have had reservations about the role.
“I was told yesterday, and I do believe it from the source that I got it from … that supposedly Arthur Blank was bought into Bill Belichick and could have offered him the job,” Esiason said.
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“I don’t know why guys say no … but legitimately, an NFL executive basically told me that they believe that Arthur Blank offered Bill the job,” he said.
“Now there may have been some caveats to that offer, you never know. It’s never, like, ‘OK, Bill, I want you, here’s a five-year contract, you do whatever you want,’” he added. “I don’t think it was one of those.”
“The way it was made to sound to me was like ‘OK, I understand your concerns, but you’re gonna have to deal with some of this and we want you to come in, we want you to be the coach,’ and then maybe he just thought better of it,” he said.
“And just maybe he said, ‘You know what? I don’t want to go right back in. I want a year away,” Esiason said. “‘I want to see what happens,’ because as we know there will be about five or six job openings next year, and there may be a better situation where an owner says, ‘You know what? I wanna go down this path with you and I want you to take my building over and I want you to run it the way that you ran it with the New England Patriots.’”
The Falcons eventually hired Raheem Morris as their new coach.
Belichick and the Patriots parted ways after a disappointing season, and the team struggled to find success after quarterback Tom Brady’s departure.
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