It’s been pretty much the exact opposite of sunshine and rainbows ever since Bill Belichick and the Patriots parted ways two January’s ago.<\/p>\n
New England endured yet another 4-12 season, is onto their second head coach in two years<\/a>, and enters 2025\u2014even after a free agency spending spree\u2014with a bottom-tier roster in the NFL.<\/p>\n Belichick, meanwhile, failed to land a job in the pros in ’24, has since resorted to becoming the head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels<\/a>\u2014a middling ACC program\u2014and is now taking shots at his former boss Robert Kraft and his son, Jonathan.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a much more cohesive, and I\u2019d say unified, view of what we\u2019re trying to do and how we\u2019re trying to do it,\u201d Belichick told The Boston Globe’s Ben Volin<\/a> this week, speaking about the differences between coaching in the NFL vs. college. \u201cIt\u2019s a lot of football, and there\u2019s not much in your way.”<\/p>\n “There\u2019s no owner, there\u2019s no owner\u2019s son,” he continued. “There\u2019s no cap, everything that goes with the marketing and everything else, which I\u2019m all for that. But it\u2019s way less of what it was at that level.”<\/p>\n This isn’t the first time the two sides have traded blows since their breakup. After Kraft told the Dudes on Dudes podcast with Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski last month that he took a “big risk” hiring Belichick back in 2000, the head coach clapped back, telling ESPN that is was him who actually took the risk:<\/p>\n “As I told Robert multiple times through the years, I took a big risk by taking the New England Patriots head coaching job,” Belichick told Don Van Natta Jr. in July<\/a>. “I already had an opportunity to be the head coach of the New York Jets, but the ownership situation was unstable.”<\/p>\n