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Nobody knows where future NFL Hall of Famer Bill Belichick will land next season. After chatter that Belichick was on Arthur Blank’s yacht in the Caribbean for an interview, the Atlanta Falcons did confirm they had interviewed Bill which is a funny way of saying ‘Bill actually interviewed us.’
But there are multiple head coaching vacancies in the NFL and every single team would jump at the chance to hire Bill Belichick. There is also the possibility the Dallas Cowboys will fire Mike McCarthy and seek to hire Belichick who has reportedly developed a relationship with Jerry Jones in recent years.
Shannon Sharpe calls Bill Belichick and the Dallas Cowboys a ‘match made in hell.’ He went off in a well-constructed rant about how Bill Belichick and Jerry Jones are cut from the same cloth: control freaks. And pairing them together is a disaster waiting to happen.
.@ShannonSharpe says “you couldn’t pick a worse match than Jerry Jones and coach Bill Belichick.” 👀 pic.twitter.com/C5Bvp8tdgD
— First Take (@FirstTake) January 15, 2024
Shannon Sharpe did not mince words when talking about how disastrous it would be if Belichick worked with Jerry Jones. He said… “man, do you not understand that Coach Belichick wants authority? Can you imagine Jerry Jones trying to hold a press conference and tell what’s going on with the team, and you think coach Belichick is going to sit idly by and let Jerry do that? Absolutely not.”
Sharpe went on to say “It’s a match made in hell. You can’t pick a worse match than Jerry Jones and coach Bill Belichick.”
Shannon Sharpe is making very valid points. Unless Bill Belichick and Jerry Jones are willing to change everything about how they run their organizations, Belichick coaching the Dallas Cowboys would be a complete and utter disaster.
Of course, should Jerry Jones be willing to cede control to Belichick for a few seasons it might actually be exactly what the Dallas Cowboys need to return to a Super Bowl. But that’s not who Jerry Jones is. He’s arguably more involved in the day-to-day running of his team than any other NFL owner.