Mike Reiss explains how he thinks things will play out with Belichick, Patriots
On Tuesday’s edition of Zolak & Bertrand, Mike Reiss of ESPN.com, joins the show and gives his opinion on how the end of the season will play out between the Patriots and Bill Belichick.
That meeting will ultimately be the decider…
Mike Reiss: I look at it. I’ll just speak for myself Beetle. You know, I think on this story, when I think about Bill’s future, I’ve always thought it was going to be at the end of the year, three people are going to sit down, Robert Kraft, Jonathan Kraft and Bill Belichick. And that meeting will ultimately be the decider as to what happens. Because I think at points along the way Beetle, like if you had asked me what would Robert Kraft and Jonathan Kraft be feeling after that Germany game? I think they would probably be like, it’s time. There are points in the season where it can get so emotional, but you know like there are also people who measure out their decisions, like they don’t make emotional decisions. So, like you said Beetle, they might know and they might have already measured it out. For me, I’ll speak for myself. I’m just going to wait to find out what happens in that meeting. And ultimately, we might find out. Yeah, they did. They were ready to move on.
Bertrand: I think they might be having that meeting going into it, thinking to themselves he’s staying. So I don’t think it’s one way or the other. I think they’ve got a decision made, but I think it could be that they want him to stay. I don’t think it’s automatic that they want him fired.
Mike Reiss: So that’s interesting.
Bertrand: I think that meeting is happening either way, given how this is played out on the field and that they have these meetings at the end of the year, every year.
Mike Reiss: That’s right.
Bertrand: But that meeting this year is about him, not just about the team. And they might be going into that meeting saying this guy is not going anywhere.
Mike Reiss: I think that’s interesting, Beetle, because I think to me, the context of the discussion comes back to March, when Robert Kraft said it’s very important to me that we’re in the playoffs. And I also think from the big picture, the four year snapshot, like, Tom leaving that to me is where I start on this whole discussion because we know with Robert Kraft, that really hurt him. He really wanted that to happen, you know for Tom to stay here and it didn’t. And so I think he’s as he measures this out as we talk about it, it’s the four years what’s happened since that point. And then it’s this season and how it went downhill. So I don’t know Beetle based on that. I don’t know. That’s an interesting point of view that you think he would want him to stay.