Bill Belichick Slams Robert Kraft When Asked What He Likes Best About College Football

Robert Kraft whitethorn beryllium retired of sight, but he was connected Bill Belichick’s mind erstwhile again this week.

Belichick, 73, took different thinly cloaked changeable astatine his erstwhile New England Patriots employer during an interview pinch nan Boston Globe connected Thursday, Aug. 21 erstwhile he was asked what he’s recovered satisfying astir assemblage shot versus nan NFL, since leaving nan pros to go nan caput coach astatine the University of North Carolina precocious past year.

"There's nary owner, there's nary owner's son, there's nary cap, everything that goes pinch nan trading and everything else, which I'm each for that," nan six-time Super Bowl champion coach said. "But it's measurement little of what it was astatine that level. Generic NFL teams, you person nan owner, president, wide manager, unit director, assemblage director, pro director, headdress guy, immoderate different consultant, past caput coach. I'd opportunity erstwhile we had our champion years successful New England, we had less group and much of a nonstop vision. And arsenic that expanded, it became harder to beryllium successful."

Belichick and Kraft, nan Patriots’ owner, person sparred successful nan media successful caller years since nan longtime Patriots coach left nan team successful January 2024. Belichick ended up sitting retired nan 2024-25 NFL season, and past taking his first-ever assemblage coaching occupation past December.

Most recently, Belichick took umbrage pinch Kraft’s comments connected a podcast pinch erstwhile players Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski, telling them that he was “taking a immense risk” by hiring Belichick arsenic nan Patriots’ adjacent caput coach successful 1999.

“I deliberation getting Bill Belichick to travel to nan Patriots successful 1999 was a large consequence and I sewage hammered successful nan Boston media, but he was pinch america for 24 years and we did okay,” Kraft said during his June quality connected nan Dudes connected Dudes podcast.

Belichick instantly changeable backmost successful a remark to ESPN, clarifying that it was him taking nan “risk” by leaving a caput coaching opportunity pinch nan New York Jets to alternatively coach nan Patriots, wherever he, Kraft, and backmost Tom Brady became nan nucleus of nan NFL’s astir successful dynasty passim nan 2000s and 2010s.

"As I told Robert aggregate times done nan years, I took a large consequence by taking nan New England Patriots caput coaching job," Belichick said. "I already had an opportunity to beryllium nan caput coach of nan New York Jets, but nan ownership business was unstable."

Belichick near New England aft losing records successful 3 of his last 4 seasons pinch nan squad pursuing Brady’s departure. The Patriots were 4-13 without Belichick past season.

The dressed up erstwhile NFL coach will make his debut pinch nan North Carolina Tar Heels connected Monday, Sept. 1 erstwhile nan squad opens its assemblage shot play against nan TCU Horned Frogs.