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“These guys can’t cease a nosebleed in case you gave them an entire yr’s provide of Kleenex and cotton balls.”
Tedy Bruschi has not often been one to criticize the Patriots group over time, particularly because it pertains to his former head coach in Invoice Belichick.
That loyalty to the one NFL group for whom he suited up might be why the previous linebacker’s feedback concerning the state of the Patriots earlier this week created loads of headlines.
Even earlier than New England dropped to 1-5 following a street loss to the Raiders at Allegiant Stadium, Bruschi shared on ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown that he thinks Belichick ought to retire after the 2023 season — fairly than proceed to chase Don Shula’s file for essentially the most head-coaching wins in NFL historical past.
“What do I personally really feel [about] how this could go, and the way this could finish with Invoice Belichick?” Bruschi mentioned. “That is simply my private feeling on what ought to occur. I need him to educate his ass off this season and get six, seven wins, all proper?
“Have them taking part in respectable by the top of the season, and stroll away. That’s what I need my former coach to do. Don’t — Shula doesn’t matter. You’ve received a number of Tremendous Bowls over Shula. You’re a greater coach.”
Two days later, one other Patriots legend in Ty Regulation agreed with Bruschi’s ideas on Belichick’s future in New England.
“If he needs to stroll away, Tedy, there could be one thing to that,” Regulation mentioned on WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Present” on Tuesday. “After I’m taking a look at him on the sideline, he doesn’t appear to be he’s having a whole lot of enjoyable. It’s no enjoyable shedding. You see every thing concerning the physique language and stuff. He’s a defensive man. These guys can’t cease a nosebleed in case you gave them an entire yr’s provide of Kleenex and cotton balls. They’ll’t cease (expletive).
Granted, the choice will not be Belichick’s to make relating to charting his subsequent steps with the Patriots.
With New England rudderless and Belichick’s personnel selections sapping ore expertise from the roster over the previous couple of years, ESPN’s Adam Schefter acknowledged that “laborious conversations” are coming between Belichick and Robert Kraft — particularly with extra distress on the horizon towards the Payments and Dolphins in Weeks 7 and eight.
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