Myers: No question Belichick asked about Jets job opening
On Tuesday’s Toucher & Hardy program, Gary Myers analyzed Bill Belichick’s decision to coach the North Carolina Tar Heels football program.
Myers: Belichick Wanted Jets Job?
Parts of conversation abbreviated for clarity.
Fred Toucher: What are you hearing about Belichick in the sincerity of his interest in the New York Jets job?
Gary Myers: Well, you know, first, I think that’s the epitome of desperation of a guy who wants to back into the NFL. He wants to break Don Shula’s record. We know he doesn’t like Don Shula because of the things he’s said.
Back in 2007, when the Patriots were 9-0, I called Don Shula as I was working at the Daily News. I asked him what he thought about the Patriots making an undefeated run in the regular season.
There was the whole Spygate thing and that’s when he said that the season deserved an asterisk. That was the first time in an interview that Shula was critical of Belichick. He went on to call him “Beli-Cheat.”
So, you know that Belichick wants to break Shula’s record in the worst way just like he wanted to go 19-0 in 2007, to do something that Shula never did.
Listen, if anybody thinks Belichick would’ve rather gone to North Carolina than any of the other 31 NFL teams, they’re just fooling themselves.
Plus, I’m convinced that he wanted to try to win a Super Bowl without Brady. The whole argument of Brady vs. Belichick got so tilted towards Brady after he won a Super Bowl in Tampa.
Now, I don’t think that really should have anything to do with judging who gets the credit for the 20 years they were together in New England. But I think the public perception is now that it was all Brady.
As far as the Jets are concerned, I don’t know whether he spoke directly to Woody Johnson or had an intermediary do it for him. But there’s no question that there was contact in which he expressed his interest in the Jets job.
I guess the clean way of saying this is, “Boy, the guy has some chutzpah after what he did to the Jets back in 2000.”
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