He's just hurting his reputation the longer he coaches. He's an average coach without Brady win%-wise, both in Cleveland and in NE, and won 6 SB's only with Brady. Keep losing Belichick!

 

New England writers are saying that Kraft wants to pull the plug but doesn't know how to do it without looking bad, like Jerry Jones with Tom Landry. They want him to retire, but it looks like he won't, and will potentially try to get hired somewhere else if the Patriots fire him.

 

If he keeps losing like this he might not have a choice. Kraft doesn't want to sit around waiting on the past to become the future.

 

A record that if he gets could very well end up getting broken by Andy Reid anyway

 

Kraft is 82 years old. I wonder if he steps aside and hands the team over to his son when BB is gone.

 

Reid is 78 wins shy of Shula, is 65 years old, and is the opposite of healthy. Even if the Chiefs were to average 13 wins a season, he'd still need six seasons to pass Don. My guess is that he won't, and could possibly step down with another title, to have one of the shinyest legacies of all time and go out on top so that he can enjoy retirement and soak it in.

 

He's got a shot, but at 65 and over 50 games to go he would need to stay really motivated. Mahomes can carry him through it though if he really wants.

BB obviously wants it, badly. But if he get's let go it would be interesting to see who, if anyone, tries to go after him. Youth seems king for NFL coaching vacancies these days. You'd need a team with a really good core that has grossly underperformed. Maybe Dallas if they get wiped out in the playoffs again.

 

They'll leave him for the season and then clean house with a top 5 pick with the aim to draft the future of their franchise and pair him with some hotshot new head coach.

 

Oh, well. New England's in the sweet spot of meh, where they're not bad enough to get a game changer in the draft and they're not good enough for their average pieces to develop into a winner. Bill's learning that having an all-time great QB who was willing to play for below market value is something that might happen once in a generation league-wide. The Pats' best chance to become a competitive team lies in whether they're willing to tear it down and undergo a full rebuild. I doubt Kraft would allow it and I know Coach Grumpy McGrumpyface doesn't have the patience for it. It took us 20 years to find ourselves willing to rebuild.

I doubt they're proud franchise and overly-proud fans will reach that point in anything less than that length of time. And I love it.