LAS VEGAS – By God, they are going to continue to report that “Bill Belichick is about to get hired as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys” forever, are they not?
“Belichick’s strong relationship with Jerry Jones could loom large,” writes ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler in what amounts to a Saturday gossip column from here in Las Vegas at the Super Bowl.
As we have written often before and during this NFL Coaching Carousel process, Belichick labored to plant seeds with the media that created the impression that he is a “hot candidate.”
But there were eight openings. And “the greatest coach in NFL history” did not get one of the jobs.
The Dallas job was never open, as incumbent Mike McCarthy is being retained – albeit without a contract extension … a completely understandable non-move by Cowboys owner Jerry Jones given the Cowboys’ playoff failure, which came in the form of a blowout home loss to the underdog Packers.
That makes McCarthy a contractual lame duck for 2024 … which fair or not means it’s open season on speculation about a “what-if” replacement in 2025.