How will it end between Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft?

How will it end between Bill Belichick and Robert Kraft?

To the best of my knowledge and as reported on NFL Network this weekend he has yet to sit down with ownership if he won’t survive I think this is a massive misstep by rkk and jkk that be Robert and Jonathan Craft uh they could turn the final week against the Jets into a

Celebration of all Bill’s accomplishments here in guarantee a full house for a meaningless game instead by dragging it out they risk turning and burning Bell Che on Black Monday that does not feel right to me all right here we go it’s our Bella Early Edition with

Tom Giles in the host SE tonight we got Phil Perry in is Mike jardi the author of those words you heard right there um and you kind of went into it a little further in the article but why would it be a misstep and and why do you

Think they haven’t sat down and had the conversation with Bill at this point I I don’t know why they haven’t to me you know whether it’s from Tom Curran’s report that they made their decision long ago and they’re just going to do it when the season’s over and say Bill

Thanks for but you’re gone or if they’re waiting because they’re thinking maybe just maybe Phil that for some reason in the next three or four weeks or now we’re down to the last two weeks can actually impact whether or not he stays or goes which to me is insanity like

You’re 70 some odd games into being a sub 500 football team with Bill bellich at the helm I think you should know by now right and I think in any other case in any other Market any other coach that’s 31 and 41 in his last 72 would be

Fired and we wouldn’t even be thinking twice about it but because it’s bill because of the past history it’s like this hesitation this reluctance to just say y it’s over and we’re going to move on yeah it is interesting if they have haven’t met yet it’s interesting to me

Because the discussions that I would think would have to occur in order to figure out a situation in which they do find a solution or a method a path to keeping bill bich would be relatively complicated it might take some time to hammer that out okay Bill we want you to

Stay we want you to coach but we want you to have some help on the Personnel side here’s how that’s going to work here’s who we’re considering in that kind of role what do you think there’s a back and forth there on the other side if it’s Bill bich who’s laying out a

Plan for the crafts as to why he should be kept that might be complicated as well that feels like the kind of discussion that that would take more time than a couple of hours on Black Monday right if if you’re going to to do it and do it right and still feel like

You’re giving yourselves an opportunity to attack your offseason on time so it is it’s surprising to me that they haven’t met just yet well but the problem there too is like so we say on time but if you’re going to try to draw this out and get something for bellich

And we’ve tossed around the ideas of I’m I’m not one who really believes that’s going to happen now um but just think about that for a second okay you do the trade well that’s going to take a little time to come up with some sort of compensation package unless they’re

Already back channeling that stuff and they can agree to it quickly then you they have to turn around whoever that team is they have to still go through the Rooney roll process like no matter whether you agree for a trade they can’t announce it because you still have to go

Interview people just like the Patriots would have to do here even if they say they wanted to turn to Gerard Mayo they can’t just do it they have to interview people via the Rooney Rule which again that takes time they don’t have a lot of time like in terms of like if you’re

Going to move on you got to get this thing going and going quickly all right and how do you think things are going to end between Robert Craft Bill Bel the Patriots all that uh you can vote in our poll and let us know it’s you think it’s

Going to be ugly do you think it’s still TBD An Elegant solution is that still on the table right now people think it’s probably going to get ugly you can go to NBC Sports boston.com uh Early Edition scan the QR code you see right there on

The screen you can vote in the poll I just I think that the reason that they would not have met yet would be that I I just don’t think that meeting would go well I I just I don’t I don’t see how that meeting could possibly go well

Unless unless the meeting would be to say Bill we need to make changes you can come back but we need to make changes and that would be I think the only meeting that would make sense to me at this point because I don’t think they

Can say to him yeah we’re just going to run it back because you’ve shown some fight here towards the end of the season don’t you think it’d be funny like Bill belich obviously we’ve been asking him questions now for a month right about his future you know questions about do

You want to be back and of course he’s punted on all those and just said I’m getting ready for insert team that they’re playing next but like when the dude leaves Gillette Stadium whatever time it is let’s just say it’s 11 o’clock at night and he drives home and

He’s listening to what Jethro Tull and his mind goes blank and he’s not thinking about all the talk about his future and where he could be next year and what’s going to happen like if he wants to stay there’s no question that he has a plan in his mind that he’s

Going to pitch right I mean that I would think that this is a guy who’s always prepared he would have something like that he’s not just like blissfully going along like oh oh what what I could lose my job like no this this guy’s going to

Be prepared and on the other side like they have to have some idea whether they’re doing it or not and what it’s going to look like I would think so I mean you’ve got enough information at your disposal to to make a decision here because it’s not just about this season

It’s about the past several and so the last month of the Season while sure it can I guess factor in some way into your decision-making process it shouldn’t be the be all end all and to Mike’s Point Point bill bich has to understand what the chatter is I mean David Andrews is

Coming up to him after the game the other night in Denver saying we tried to do that one for we tried to get that one for you and you know is that just because he likes the guy no it’s because everyone understands the situation that

The team is in and that bill bich is in right now so the public nature of the discussion around Bill bich around the crafts also makes it relatively surprising to me that they haven’t hashed this thing out because if you wanted to keep Bill bich wouldn’t you go

To by now and say I know what everyone’s saying out there it’s not true you’re our guy Bill we want you here finish this thing out go get the record let’s rebuild this thing they haven’t done that yet I think that speaks volumes well that too and because also if you’re

Bill bich and you get to the end of the season they do want to bring it back and they say yeah but of course we’re going to bring you back you’re still under contract when he just when he stand there and say well what the hell have

You been doing the last couple of months you guys have kind of let me Bend I’ve been Twisted in the wind basically I’ve been standing up here being asked questions about what’s going on with the the New York Jets and how Woody Johnson is backing his head coach and his GM and

So that’s why just it just it doesn’t feel like a that uh they’re going to be back next year and B that there’s going to be an elegant solution yeah I think I heard Tom Curran say this on the radio today like the fact that they haven’t

Met kind of tells you what they’re thinking right because wouldn’t you have to your point like if you’re going to move on from quarterback X and Y and you’re going to do this with the roster and you want to resign on wenu like Bill would have a say in that

If Bill’s not a part of the conversations you’re getting closer and closer to the end of the year it feels like well kind of have made our decision and you’re not going to be part of the equation going forward but again like I mean we’re basing this on Tom’s report

Right that’s where it all starts from and then sort of connecting the dots since then and kind of leads you to believe that yeah they are going to make that move but it’s also that the the crafts have been people been wanting to talk to them right and that you know the

Owner meetings and they’re not they’re not meeting and they’re you know it’s it’s rare that we hear from Robert unless it’s with you know in before the Germany game you know it’s just there have been a lot of opportunities for them to indicate which way they’re going

To go if it was going to be a positive outcome for bill belich here in New England and and they haven’t chosen those paths all right let’s talk more about uh the the win that happened on Sunday

Mike Giardi, and Phil Perry join Tom Giles on Arbella Early Edition to discuss Giardi’s report that Patriots ownership has not yet had a conversation with Bill Belichick about his future with the team

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