Bill Belichick looks like he’s about to get a year off, as the only job he interviewed for this month was filled when the Falcons hired Raheem Morris as their head coach on Thursday.
But could that simply mean that in 2025, he comes ‘home’ to New York to coach the Giants? Gregg Giannotti and Boomer Esiason discussed it on WFAN Friday morning.
“Bill Belichick and Mike Vrabel are most likely not going to be coaching in 2024, so anybody who gets off to a bad start or maybe is in year three and is struggling and all of that, including the New York Giants, is gonna be looking over their shoulder,” Gio said. “You don't normally get guys like that with that type of experience just waiting around taking years off.
This is a bizarre situation in the NFL that Bill Belichick is a coaching free agent for the first time in 24 years.”
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“What’s wrong with a little break? They get paid a lot of money, they get their guaranteed contracts, and I'm sure that coach Belichick has made somewhere north of $100 million, if not more than that,” Boomer said. “I would just say it's okay if you don't take a job, and I can understand why Atlanta didn't hire him, but that doesn't mean somebody else won't next year.”
Could that be Big Blue?
“I know Bill Belichick will go down in the annals of the NFL, legacy-wise, as a Patriot, but if he comes back to the Giants, he can go where it all started for him,” Boomer said.
“You know that if Brian Daboll and the Giants have a bad year, that's what everybody's gonna be talking about,” Gio replied. “I like Brian Daboll and I want him to have a great year, but going into the 2025 season, things will be looking up for the Giants because either Brian Daboll is still the coach because they had a great year, or Bill Belichick is the coach. One thing that's not gonna happen is the Giants have a crap year and Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen are still here.”