why Bill Belichick can’t join the famous Texan team, but it isn’t because they can’t coordinate on football.
It’s because they wouldn’t make media conferences work according to a New York Times bestselling author.
Belichick was released from the New England Patriots at the end of the 2023 season after winning six Super Bowls with Boston-based team in a formidable partnership with their legendary quarterback, Tom Brady.
Whilst he will serve as an analyst in what appears to be a sabbatical for the 72-year-old, he’s still keen on the NFL after hosting a series of talks with vacancies regarding the head coach role and one team that could start shopping in the market for a winning coach could be the Cowboys after a series of postseason failures.
But the pair would not be a good fit according to Ian O’Connor, writer of Belichick: The Making of the Greatest Football Coach of All Time, as he argues the Cowboys’ owners approach to the media would prove to be too problematic.
“Belichick could work with Jerry Jones [owner of the team]. I know they have a good relationship,” O’Connor told The Volume Sports podcast. “But Parcells told me that it was a problem when he was there. He liked Jerry Jones, didn’t have a major problem with him overall, but after games, Jerry Jones holds a press conference right outside the locker room”I’ve been in five, six or seven of them and the coaches down the hall in the interview room, and those messages could conflict, and Parcells said that was tough to deal with.
“Can you imagine Belichick down the hall saying nothing and Jerry saying everything outside the locker room? Now maybe Bill can convince him not to do that anymore. But Jerry has been doing that for a long time. And he puts on a show he’ll talk about anything after a game.”
Another source of conflict could be their different attitudes towards the General Manager role, with Belichick effectively fulfilling the position at the Gillette Stadium in New England whilst Jones prefers to keep a firmer control of his players in Dallas.
