Twenty-four years ago, Bill Belichick was the head coach of the New York Jets for one day.
Moments before stepping on stage for his introductory press conference, he scribbled that he resigned as “HC of the NYJ” on a cocktail napkin.
Belichick then beat his would-be team 38 times during his dynastic run with the New England Patriots, while Jets fans looked up from football hell, cursing his name.
The Jets today have one of the most talented teams in their franchise’s history but their current head coach, Robert Saleh, seems unable to steer them towards a winning formula.
Saleh seems to lack the backbone, or resume, necessary to criticize his star player Aaron Rodgers, as Greg Hill pointed out Tuesday on WEEI.
“There are organizations in which a leader, a high profile employee, criticizes the boss one day, and I'm referring to Aaron Rodgers,” Hill said, “and immediately the next day, the boss goes out there and basically lies down in the prone position and says he was wrong, in the case of Robert Saleh.”
Saleh criticized, among other things, Rodgers’ cadence before walking it all back in a press conference Monday.
“Sorry, Mr. Rodgers, I'm sorry to bring up cadence, you're spot on with your cadence, Mr. Rodgers,” Hill said.
The crew then picked on Saleh for “emasculating” himself on live television in order to save face with his QB.
“I majored in emasculating in college,” Chris Curtis joked.
“I know it very well, I've been emasculated in the public airwaves for a long time. That is next level, right there.”
With Bill Belichick now unemployed following his ouster from the Patriots, could the Jets’ one-time antichrist become their new savior?
“I mean, that relationship is not going to last, right?” Hill said.
“That's why I think Wiggy might be right when he says that is a potential landing spot for Bill Belichick,” he continued.
Belichick has a longstanding friendship with Rodgers, even as an opposing coach. Rodgers revealed the details of their relationship in an interview with Pat McAfee earlier this year.
"We played him in 2018 and 2022 and both times he waited to make sure that he saw me after the game and I just thought that was one of the classiest things ever. I have so much respect for him doing that,” Rodgers told McAfee.
If Bill Belichick is going to make a return to coaching, does it make sense for him to do so with the Jets?
“I think Bill has a ton of respect for Aaron Rodgers,” Courtney Cox said.
“If he were to come back – I'm still on the page of that he is not going back to coaching anytime soon or ever – but he loves Aaron Rodgers.”
The move would make for amazing media fodder in the New England market during a down Patriots season.
“That would be awesome for our purposes,” Chris Curtis said.
“God, go to the Jets. Aaron Rodgers and Bill Belichick, they could do like their own Rogan podcast.”