Bill Belichick rumors: Patriots may have already made decision to move on from coach after 2023, per report

With Bill Belichick struggling through the worst season of his Patriots coaching career, there’s been rampant speculation over the past few weeks that his time in New England could soon be coming to an end. 

Although Robert Kraft has stayed silent on the topic of Belichick’s future over the past few months, it appears that the Patriots owner might have already made a decision about what’s going to happen with his head coach. According to Tom Curran of NBC Sports Boston, Kraft has already decided that he’s going to move on from Belichick and he apparently made that decision after watching his Patriots lose to the Colts 10-6 in a game that was played in Frankfurt, Germany, on Nov. 12. 

“When they came out of Germany, conversations I had that week made it very clear that a decision was made and they were going to play out the string, and at the end of the year, there would be a parting of the ways for a variety of reasons,” Curran explained. 

It was reported back in mid-October that Kraft was already having discussions about moving on from Belichick, so it wouldn’t be a total surprise to learn that a loss in Germany less than a month later was what eventually pushed him over the edge. The Germany game meant a lot to Kraft, who had been pushing for the Patriots to play a game in the country for more than a decade. 

Although Kraft hasn’t specifically talked about Belichick’s future since the start of the season, he did make it very clear in Germany that he was unhappy with how the season was going.

“This is our thirtieth year that I’ve had the privilege of owning this team, and I’ve never been 2-7,” Kraft said, via PFT. “So it’s really disappointing and I hoped that things would be a lot better, as I know our fan base did.”

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Author : John Breech

Publish date : 2023-12-13 13:09:31

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