Adam Schefter: ‘Onerous conversations’ between Invoice Belichick and Robert Kraft are coming

The Patriots are 1-5 for the primary time since 1995, and it has put the franchise in a predicament.

How does a corporation take care of a coach who has had as a lot success as Invoice Belichick, when the group’s efficiency is so poor?

“To start with I believe he’s handled otherwise as he must be than every other coach.” ESPN’s Adam Schefter mentioned throughout an look on the Pat McAfee Present. “On a Monday or a Sunday evening after a season ends we’ll get three, 4, 5, six firings of head coaches.”

“I simply don’t suppose you’re going to get certainly one of these statements on the final regular-season sport, that Sunday evening the place it says the Patriots have fired Invoice Belichick,” Schefter continued. “I don’t suppose it really works like that when there’s the historical past, and the accomplishments, and the resumes and the connection that there’s been between he and Robert Kraft.”

However, Schefter acknowledged that the Patriots are having the kind of yr that’s main folks to query whether or not Belichick ought to proceed on as New England’s head coach.

“No person thinks that they’ll proceed identical to this,” Schefter mentioned. “With the group reeling in a method we’re not used to seeing, the offense struggling in a method that we’re not used to seeing, and the group performing in a method that we’re not used to seeing. That is so irregular for a group that has arguably been the most effective group in all of sports activities during the last couple of a long time.”

Schefter mentioned that he’s unsure precisely how the state of affairs will play out from right here.

“Invoice is 71 years previous. All people desires to see change and he’s been the man on the high,” Schefter mentioned. “I simply suppose there’s going to be some exhausting conversations that happen naturally between he and Robert Kraft. The place these go? I don’t know. Is Invoice going to need out? Are they going to need him out? Are they going to comply with mutually finish it collectively? There are an entire bunch of questions on the way it will go on.”

Schefter mentioned that he can’t see Belichick retiring this yr, even when the Patriots resolve to half methods with him.

“His life is all about soccer,” Schefter mentioned. “I can’t see him not being concerned in somehow. He simply lives it, loves it, and it’s a part of his soul. So, what does he do? If he’s not teaching the Patriots, I don’t see Invoice Belichick retiring to go play golf in Florida.”