Eagles

ESPN Insider Thinks Bill Belichick Would Want Nick Sirianni’s Job if it Becomes Available

By Kyle Pagan

Published: Jul 30th, 2024 · 9:41 AM EDT

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ESPN insider Jeremy Fowler thinks Bill Belichick would want the Eagles job if it opens up after the season, via the Talkin’ Ball with Pat Leonard podcast:

🚨On Talkin’ Ball with Pat Leonard: @espn senior NFL reporter @JFowlerESPN thinks Bill Belichick would want the #Eagles HC job “in the worst way” if it opens in 2025.

PLUS: Fowler’s Top 10 rankings, Dak’s doubters, the NFL’s #Jets love, Justin Simmons’ possible #Giants fit,… pic.twitter.com/RgieOnKVeV

— Pat Leonard (@PLeonardNYDN) July 18, 2024

Am I taking crazy pills or is there no way Howie Roseman and Bill Belichick are a good fit together. They’d have to build an addition on NovaCare just to fit all that ego in the building. How long until Belichick tries to put Howie in the broom closet like Chip Kelly did? Belichick doesn’t feel like a Jeffrey Lurie hire either. They’ve strayed away from the coach who wants to control everything top to bottom since Chip. Doug Pederson was a good coach, but he never had a full control of the team. The front office forced him to get rid of Mike Groh. Nick Sirianni is the same lame duck. It’s Howie’s show. He tells Nick who to play, who they’re going to sign, and what the gameplan is going to be that day. You think Belichick wants someone meddling in his defense?

Now there were rumors Belichick was linked to the Eagles this summer. Even Howie and him talked, but not about coaching the Birds via ESPN.com:

Roseman told ESPN he had a conversation with Belichick, a check-in to see how the coach was doing after he was out in New England. A source close to Belichick confirmed there was no talk during the call about working for the Eagles.

Still, there was chatter in league circles that Philadelphia and Belichick could be a match. Despite some owners and executives believing the game had passed Belichick by, the Eagles felt he still had his fastball; he had nearly beaten them in the 2023 season opener with an inferior team. There’s also a belief that Belichick will coach only until he gets 15 more wins, enough to pass Don Shula as the winningest coach in NFL history. Though not seriously considering a move, Lurie wondered to a confidant: Was it worth overhauling the building, changing personnel and philosophies on everything from training staff to salary cap structure, for someone who might coach only two years?

“You’ll have to start over again,” said a source with firsthand knowledge of the Eagles’ thinking. “Who would replace him? He hasn’t had a good record of developing coaches. They were afraid that he’ll have changed everything and every person, and [then] you’ll be starting from scratch again. He didn’t demand those changes, but they felt like, if we hire him, we have to give everything to him and trust how he does it.”

Hiring Belichick so he can set Don Shula’s record sounds exactly like something the Cowboys would do. Let them hire the defensive legend to try and get them over the hump like they did Bill Parcells and watch them fail miserably.