Bill Belichick
On the 4th of January 2000, Bill Belichick was introduced to the press as head coach of the New York Jets. Before he took the podium, he scrawled a note on a napkin. It read, in its entirety, "I resign as HC of the NYJ." He then spent half an hour explaining himself to the assembled reporters. The job had lasted one day.
The man who quit that post would become the most decorated coach the National Football League has seen. How does a coach who walks out on one franchise end up building another into a dynasty? What did a firing in Cleveland teach him about running a team? And why, in his seventies, did the league's most successful coach struggle to find anyone willing to hire him?
Nashville, Tennessee, is where William Stephen Belichick was born on the 16th of April 1952, the son of Jeannette and Steve Belichick. His godfather, College Football Hall of Fame coach Bill Edwards, gave him his name. The family roots ran to Croatia. His paternal grandparents, Marija Barković and Ivan Biličić, left Draganić in 1897 and settled in Monessen, Pennsylvania. Immigration officers suggested new names, and the couple became Mary and John Belichick.
Annapolis, Maryland, is where he grew up, because his father was an assistant football coach at the United States Naval Academy. Belichick has called his father one of his most important football mentors. He reportedly learned to break down game film as a boy by watching his father and the Navy staff at work. At Annapolis High School, from which he graduated in 1970, he played football and lacrosse. Lacrosse was his favorite. One of his classmates, Sally Brice-O'Hara, would later become Vice Commandant of the Coast Guard.
A postgraduate year at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, was meant to improve his grades and test scores for a good college. The school inducted him into its Athletics Hall of Honor in 2011. At Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, he played center and tight end, along with lacrosse and squash. He captained the lacrosse team as a senior, belonged to the Chi Psi fraternity, and earned an economics degree in 1975.
His first coaching paycheck was $25 a week. It came in 1975 from Baltimore Colts head coach Ted Marchibroda, who hired him as an assistant. In 1976 he moved to the Detroit Lions as assistant special teams coach, and in 1977 he added tight ends and wide receivers. On the 9th of January 1978, he was dismissed along with head coach Tommy Hudspeth and the entire staff. He spent that season with the Denver Broncos as assistant special teams coach, defensive assistant and director of films.
The New York Giants brought him in during 1979, under head coach Ray Perkins, as a defensive assistant and special teams coach. He added linebackers to his duties in 1980. Bill Parcells replaced Perkins in 1983, and in 1985 Parcells made Belichick his defensive coordinator. The Giants won Super Bowl XXI after the 1986 season and Super Bowl XXV after the 1990 season. Belichick's defensive game plan from the 20-19 upset of the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl XXV now sits in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. In 1991 the Cleveland Browns offered him his first head coaching job.
A record of 36-44 is what Belichick left behind in Cleveland after five seasons. His one winning year came in 1994, when the Browns reached the playoffs. Their only playoff victory under him came against the New England Patriots, coached that year by his old boss Parcells. In his final season, 1995, the Browns started 3-1 and then finished 5-11.
Bernie Kosar was the quarterback Belichick cut midway through the 1993 season, one of his most controversial moves. The Dallas Cowboys signed Kosar two days later. He won Super Bowl XXVIII with them as a backup.
In November 1995, in the middle of the season, Browns owner Art Modell announced he would move the franchise to Baltimore. Belichick was first given assurances that he would coach the new team, the one that became the Baltimore Ravens. Instead he was fired on the 14th of February 1996, a week after the move became official.
A 2013 episode of A Football Life revisited the relocation, and many journalists who had covered the Browns offered a generous verdict. They said Belichick had laid the groundwork for the Ravens' later success. He gave recently retired tight end Ozzie Newsome his first front-office job. He also planned to draft Ray Lewis in 1996, and the Ravens did draft Lewis, who went on to a 17-year Hall of Fame career. The Ravens won Super Bowl XXXV with Cleveland holdovers Matt Stover and Rob Burnett still on the roster.
Those interviewed blamed Modell's finances more than Belichick. As one example, a young Scott Pioli was paid only $14,000 a year as a scout. Belichick himself said he learned from his mistakes in Cleveland, such as accounting for off-the-field issues that can affect performance. He then largely stuck to the Cleveland blueprint when he rebuilt the Patriots.
Parcells gave him a landing place for the 1996 season, as assistant head coach and defensive backs coach in New England. The Patriots went 11-5 and beat the Jacksonville Jaguars for the AFC title. They then lost Super Bowl XXXI to the Green Bay Packers, amid rumors that Parcells was about to leave.
February 1997 brought the first of two Jets head coaching jobs that Belichick held without ever coaching a game. He was named interim head coach while the Jets and Patriots haggled over compensation for releasing Parcells from his Patriots contract. Six days later they agreed, Parcells took the Jets job, and Belichick became assistant head coach and defensive coordinator.
When Parcells stepped down after the 1999 season, he had already arranged for Belichick to succeed him. Just before that, the Patriots asked the Jets for permission to interview Belichick for their own vacancy. The Jets insisted he was still under contract and demanded compensation. NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue agreed with them. The price the Patriots paid was a first-round draft pick in 2000, and in return Belichick became their 12th full-time head coach, succeeding the recently fired Pete Carroll.
Robert Kraft, the Patriots owner, gave his new coach near-complete control of football operations soon after the hire. That made Belichick the de facto general manager. Until 2009 he split many general manager duties with player personnel director Scott Pioli, though Belichick had the final say on football matters. Pioli left for the Kansas City Chiefs after the 2008 season.
The Patriots went 5-11 in 2000 and missed the playoffs. The 2001 team went 11-5, then beat the Oakland Raiders in the "Tuck Rule Game" and the Pittsburgh Steelers on the way to the Super Bowl. In Super Bowl XXXVI, Belichick's defense held the St. Louis Rams to 17 points. The Rams had averaged 31 points a game that season. A last-second field goal by Adam Vinatieri won it and gave the franchise its first Super Bowl championship.
Gillette Stadium opened as the Patriots' home for the 2002 season, which ended at 9-7 with no playoff berth. New England finished with the same record as the Jets and the Miami Dolphins. The Jets took the AFC East on the third tiebreaker, record among common opponents.
A 31-0 loss to the Buffalo Bills opened the 2003 season, days after the Patriots released defensive captain Lawyer Milloy. The team then dominated, finishing 14-2, a franchise record for wins. In the final week they beat the Bills by the same 31-0 score. After a divisional win over the Tennessee Titans, they faced the Indianapolis Colts and Co-MVP Peyton Manning in the AFC Championship Game. The Patriots intercepted him four times. In Super Bowl XXXVIII they beat the Carolina Panthers 32-29 on another late Vinatieri field goal, and Belichick was named NFL Coach of the Year.
The 2004 season ended with another 14-2 record. The Patriots opened 6-0, and with the 15 straight wins that closed 2003, that made 21 consecutive victories. The Dolphins' 18 straight wins across 1972 and 1973 had stood as the record. After beating the Colts and the Steelers in the playoffs, New England beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl XXXIX. They became only the second team to win three Super Bowls in four years. Belichick is the only coach to do it, because the Dallas Cowboys used two head coaches across their three wins in four years from 1992 to 1995.
The 9th of September 2007 is the date NFL security caught a Patriots video assistant taping the New York Jets' defensive signals. He was on the sidelines, which is not an approved location. League rules state that no video recording devices of any kind may be in use in the coaches' booth, on the field, or in the locker room during the game. Jets coach Eric Mangini, a former Patriots assistant, had tipped off league officials. After the game the Jets filed a formal complaint. The affair became known as "Spygate."
Four days later, the NFL fined Belichick $500,000. That was the largest fine ever imposed on a coach in the league's 87-year history. The Patriots were fined $250,000 and forfeited their first-round pick in the 2008 draft. Commissioner Roger Goodell, a former Jets employee, said he fined the club too because Belichick controls so much of its on-field operations. In Goodell's words, "his actions and decisions are properly attributed to the club." Goodell weighed a suspension but concluded that taking draft picks would hurt more in the long run. Gary Myers, a columnist for New York's Daily News, argued that Belichick should have sat out the next game against the Jets.
Belichick accepted full responsibility in a written statement. He apologized to the Kraft family and to Patriots fans. He said his reading of a rule in the league's Constitution and Bylaws had been wrong. He also said the sideline video had no effect on the outcome of the game and had never been used for an advantage while play was underway. He added that he would say nothing more on the matter. No head coach was punished more harshly until Sean Payton of the New Orleans Saints was suspended for the entire 2012 season for covering up a bounty scheme.
The team itself was not slowed. The 2007 Patriots went 16-0, the first perfect regular season since the 16-game schedule began in 1978. Only the 1934 and 1942 Chicago Bears and the 1972 Miami Dolphins had managed it before. They beat the Jaguars 31-20 and the San Diego Chargers 21-12 in the playoffs. Belichick won the Associated Press Coach of the Year award for the season.
Super Bowl XLII was where perfection ended. The New York Giants, Belichick's former team, won 17-14 after the Patriots defense allowed a famous play to David Tyree near the end of regulation. Because the Patriots lost, the 1972 Dolphins stayed the only team to go undefeated and untied through the playoffs. That Miami team went 14-0 in the regular season and won three playoff games. Only two other pro football teams have a perfect season on record, the 1948 Cleveland Browns of the All-America Football Conference at 14-0 and the 1948 Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League at 12-0.
Quarterback Tom Brady was lost for the season in the first quarter of the 2008 opener against the Chiefs. Matt Cassel took over. The team lost more than a dozen players to injured reserve, including Rodney Harrison, Adalius Thomas and Laurence Maroney. They still went 11-5 and extended their streak of winning seasons to eight, the longest in the league. Yet they missed the playoffs, losing tiebreakers to the Dolphins and the Baltimore Ravens. The only other 11-win team to miss the postseason in a 16-game season was the 1985 Denver Broncos.
"We're on to Cincinnati" is the line Belichick repeated at a midweek press conference in 2014. The Patriots had just lost 41-14 to the Kansas City Chiefs and stood at 2-2. Reporters kept asking about the team and about Brady in particular, and Belichick kept giving the same answer, naming the next opponent. The Patriots went 12-4 for the third straight year, beat the Ravens 35-31 and crushed the Colts 45-7. In Super Bowl XLIX they beat the Seattle Seahawks 28-24. That fourth title as head coach tied him with Chuck Noll for the most.
In 2016 the Patriots went 14-2 and earned the top seed in the AFC. They beat the Houston Texans 34-16 and the Steelers 36-17. Super Bowl LI against the Atlanta Falcons looked lost, because New England trailed 28-3 in the third quarter. They won 34-28 in overtime, giving Belichick his record fifth Super Bowl title as a head coach.
The 2017 team went 13-3, which made eight straight seasons of at least 12 wins, an NFL record. It was also their ninth straight AFC East title. They beat the Titans 35-14 and the Jaguars 24-20, extending their record of consecutive AFC Championship Game appearances to seven. Super Bowl LII was Belichick's eighth title game as head coach and his eleventh in any capacity. The Ringer observed that this team differed from the first dynasty squads, which relied on defense. This one ranked 29th in yards allowed, though fifth in points allowed, and had perfected situational football.
Philadelphia beat them 41-33 in that game, with Nick Foles repeating his dominant performance from the NFC title game. Eagles defensive end Brandon Graham strip-sacked Brady to give Philadelphia the ball with about two minutes left. The Patriots got the ball back but ran out of time.
The 2018 season brought an 11-5 record, the first time since 2009 that the team failed to reach 12 wins. They still took a tenth straight division title. They beat the Los Angeles Chargers 41-28, then outlasted the Chiefs 37-31 in overtime in Kansas City. In Super Bowl LIII they beat the Los Angeles Rams 13-3, holding the high-scoring Rams offense to 260 total yards. It was Belichick's sixth title as a head coach and his eighth overall, which gave him the most Super Bowl rings in NFL history. His six matched George Halas and Curly Lambeau for most championships as a head coach.
On the 13th of May 2019, Belichick announced that he would call the defensive plays himself. Brian Flores, who had held that role, had left to coach the Miami Dolphins, and the defensive coordinator job stayed unfilled all year. On the 27th of October, a win over the Browns gave Belichick his 300th victory as a head coach, regular season and playoffs combined. The Patriots finished 12-4 and won an eleventh straight division title. Then they lost the Wild Card Round 20-13 to the Titans, who were led by Mike Vrabel, a former Patriots linebacker.
Tom Brady's move to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers left the Patriots without a settled quarterback for the first time in nearly two decades. For 2020 they signed Cam Newton, formerly the Carolina Panthers' starter. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the offseason routines and the normal flow of the regular season. The Patriots stayed in the playoff hunt late, then finished 7-9. It was Belichick's first losing season since his first year in New England.
Mac Jones, chosen 15th overall in the 2021 draft, won the starting job over Newton in the preseason, and Belichick released Newton. In Week 4, Brady's Buccaneers visited Gillette Stadium for his first trip back. A missed 56-yard field goal by Patriots kicker Nick Folk let Tampa Bay escape 19-17. Brady and Belichick shared a quick embrace on the field. Fans criticized Belichick for a lack of warmth, but the two reportedly spoke at length in the Buccaneers locker room afterward. The Patriots finished 10-7 and lost the Wild Card Round to the Buffalo Bills 47-17.
Josh McDaniels left to coach the Las Vegas Raiders before the 2022 season, and Belichick named no offensive coordinator to replace him. With no defensive coordinator either, both posts stayed vacant all year. Jones was hurt in Week 3 and missed three more games. The Patriots stayed in the playoff chase until the last week and finished 8-9. Many pundits blamed the return of Joe Judge and Matt Patricia for Jones's decline, citing their lack of coaching acumen.
During Week 4 of 2023, the Patriots lost 38-3 to the Dallas Cowboys. The 35-point margin was the worst loss of Belichick's career. A week later the New Orleans Saints won 34-0, his worst home loss. A 29-25 upset of the Bills then gave him his 300th regular season win. After a 10-6 loss to the Colts in Germany and a bye week, he named Bailey Zappe the starter. His last game with New England was a 17-3 loss to the Jets, which ended a 15-game winning streak against them. The Patriots finished 4-13, their worst record in his 24 seasons. On the 11th of January 2024, he and the team mutually agreed to part ways.
Over those 24 seasons the Patriots went 266-121 in the regular season and 30-12 in the playoffs, including 6-3 in Super Bowls. His 266 wins are more than four times the total of runner-up Mike Holovak. He won 17 divisional titles, including eleven in a row from 2009 to 2019.
He immediately went looking for another NFL head coaching job and felt confident because of his resume. Teams were not comfortable giving him the power he had in New England, since the league had moved away from the combined coach and general manager role. Many also doubted the 71-year-old would stay long, expecting him to leave once he won the 15 more games needed to pass Don Shula as the winningest coach in league history. Of seven other teams with openings, only the Atlanta Falcons considered him. They interviewed him twice, then hired Raheem Morris. San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan offered him the defensive coordinator job, and Belichick declined.
The 2024 season began with Belichick outside the NFL for the first time in 49 years. He agreed to appear every Monday afternoon on ESPN's The Pat McAfee Show. He also met weekly with former assistants such as McDaniels and Patricia to talk about league trends. By the end of the season, teams with openings still showed little interest.
Then, on the 11th of December 2024, the North Carolina Tar Heels named him their 35th head football coach. It was his first college job. His staff included his sons Brian and Stephen as assistants, along with others with deep NFL experience. New general manager Mike Lombardi called the program the "33rd NFL team." Belichick was reported to earn $10 million a year, with the first three years guaranteed and $3.5 million in annual incentives. He also refused to let Patriots scouts onto campus, citing the bitter end of his time in New England.
Texas Christian University beat North Carolina 48-14 in his 2025 debut. That was the most points any opponent had scored against a Belichick team, and the most North Carolina had ever allowed in a season opener. Wins followed over Charlotte, 20-3, and Richmond, 41-6, and then four straight losses. The first Atlantic Coast Conference win came against Syracuse, 27-10, followed by a 20-15 win over Stanford. Losses to Wake Forest, Duke and NC State ended the year at 4-8. North Carolina missed a bowl game for the first time since 2018.
The 27th of January 2026 brought news that Belichick had not been elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame on his first ballot. He needed 40 of 50 votes from a panel of media members and Hall of Famers. Reaction from media, players and Hall members was shock, disbelief and anger. Brady and Kraft both voiced disappointment, and President Donald Trump called the omission "ridiculous."
Reports said Hall of Fame member Bill Polian, a longtime Colts executive and one of the voters, felt Belichick should "wait a year" because of his alleged role in the Spygate and Deflategate controversies. Polian denied lobbying voters. He first said he voted for Belichick, then said he could not recall that "with 100% certainty." On the 29th of January, the Hall stated that Polian had voted for him and had not spoken during the discussion of his candidacy. Some media members called for reform of the voting process.
Twenty of Belichick's assistants have become head coaches in the NFL or in college, among them Nick Saban at Alabama from 2007 to 2023 and Kirk Ferentz at Iowa since 1999. Three of his players did too: Kliff Kingsbury, Jerod Mayo and Mike Vrabel. The record of the tree, though, has been called poor. Former assistants had a combined 208-296-1 mark as head coaches through the 28th of November 2020, and several were fired midseason. As of the end of 2020, only Al Groh and Bill O'Brien among its NFL head coaches finished above .500 in a career.
Offseason visits to other programs are one of his habits. He studied the Navy run offense. He sought out Bill Walsh to understand the San Francisco 49ers as an organization and the West Coast offense as a system. He spent time with Jimmy Johnson to learn about drafting. Bill Cowher taught him about defensive backs, and Belichick wanted to hire Cowher as an assistant, but Cowher stayed loyal to Marty Schottenheimer.
Saban is also a close friend. In 2007, when the two coached in the same division, Belichick joked: "Two successful Croats in the same division of NFL. You must admit, you don't see that every day." On the 3rd of June 2024, Belichick received Croatian citizenship in Banski dvori in Zagreb from Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. He was also a special guest at the friendly between Croatia and North Macedonia at Stadion Rujevica.
Belichick married Debby Clarke in 1977, and they divorced in 2006. Their daughter Amanda has been head women's lacrosse coach at the College of the Holy Cross since July 2015. Their son Stephen is North Carolina's defensive coordinator, and son Brian is also on that staff. From 2007 to 2023 he was in a relationship with Linda Holliday, executive director of the Bill Belichick Foundation. Since 2023 he has reportedly been dating Jordon Hudson. In August 2025 the couple submitted 17 trademark applications through their company, TCE Rights Management. They included "The Belichick Way" and "No Days Off."
Politics has followed him too. At the Patriots' 2015 White House visit, he wore an Armenian flag pin alongside longtime assistant Berj Najarian to draw attention to the Armenian genocide. In January 2021, Politico reported that Trump planned to give him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Belichick declined the next day, citing the January 6 attack on the Capitol and his reverence for the nation's values, freedom and democracy.
Popular culture has noticed him. A Football Life aired a two-hour documentary on his 2009 season in September 2011 and became the most-watched documentary in NFL Network history. The Madden video games leave out his name because he is the only head coach who never joined the NFL Coaches Association. Bon Jovi dedicated its 2002 song "Bounce" to him. His Alaskan Klee Kai dog, Nike, caused a surge of interest in the breed after appearing on camera during the 2020 draft. In March 2024, the Apple TV+ series The Dynasty: New England Patriots followed the 20-year journey of Belichick, Brady and Kraft. Its stated aim was to reveal the cost of greatness.
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Who is Bill Belichick?
Bill Belichick is an American football coach, born on the 16th of April 1952 in Nashville, Tennessee. He won six Super Bowls as head coach of the New England Patriots and two more as defensive coordinator of the New York Giants, and he now coaches the University of North Carolina Tar Heels.
How many Super Bowls did Bill Belichick win?
Bill Belichick won eight Super Bowls, the most of any individual in NFL history. Six came as head coach of the New England Patriots and two as defensive coordinator of the New York Giants, in Super Bowl XXI and Super Bowl XXV.
Why did Bill Belichick resign from the New York Jets after one day?
Bill Belichick resigned as Jets head coach on the 4th of January 2000, writing a napkin note that read "I resign as HC of the NYJ." He then took the New England Patriots job, and the Patriots gave the Jets a first-round draft pick in 2000 as compensation.
What was Spygate and how was Bill Belichick punished?
Spygate began on the 9th of September 2007, when NFL security caught a Patriots video assistant taping the New York Jets' defensive signals from the sidelines. The NFL fined Belichick $500,000, fined the Patriots $250,000, and took away the team's first-round pick in the 2008 draft.
Why did Bill Belichick leave the New England Patriots?
Bill Belichick and the Patriots mutually agreed to part ways on the 11th of January 2024, after a 4-13 season that was the worst of his 24 years as head coach. He had coached the team since 2000.
Where does Bill Belichick coach now?
Bill Belichick was named the 35th head football coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels on the 11th of December 2024, his first college coaching job. His first season in 2025 ended 4-8, with no bowl game.
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- 168Football Icon Bill Belichick Named Tar Heel Head CoachDecember 11, 2024
- 169MagazineThe Bill Belichick College Football Coaching Experiment BeginsPat Forde — March 5, 2025
- 170MagazineUNC Football GM Drops Bold NFL's '33rd Team' Moniker for Bill Belichick-Led ProgramBlake Silverman — February 12, 2025
- 171Full Bill Belichick contract details emergeMike Florio — December 13, 2024
- 172By the numbers: Why Bill Belichick's UNC debut was a disaster for the ages at North CarolinaShehan Jeyarajah — September 2, 2025
- 173Bill Belichick gets his first college winMike Florio — September 6, 2025
- 174Bill Belichick gets first home win as UNC head coachJackson Thompson — September 13, 2025
- 175Bill Belichick wins first ACC game as North Carolina rallies to defeat Syracuse 27-10Mark Frank — October 31, 2025
- 176Lopez throws 2 TD passes, North Carolina beats Stanford 20-15Doug Bonjour — November 8, 2025
- 177Bill Belichick’s 1st season at North Carolina ends in a rivalry loss at NC State — and just 4 winsAaron Beard — November 30, 2025
- 178North Carolina DC Steve Belichick resigns as investigation endsDavid Hale — ESPN Inc. — September 17, 2026
- 179North Carolina opens Bill Belichick's second season with 15-10 win over TCU in IrelandESPN Inc. — August 29, 2026
- 181"A Football Life: Bill Belichick" Most-Watched Documentary Ever On NFL Network – RatingsBill Gorman — September 16, 2011
- 182'The Two Bills': A compelling tale of the dysfunctional greatness of Parcells, BelichickMichael McCarthy — February 6, 2018
- 183FMIA Week 12: Why Dominant, Deep 49ers Might Be NFL's Scariest TeamPeter King — November 25, 2019
- 184Bill Belichick Gets His Sports Emmy For Work On NFL Network's 'NFL 100 All-Time Team' SeriesCBS Boston — August 18, 2021
- 185Bill Belichick teases 'ManningCast' partnership at Tom Brady's roastMike Reiss — 2024-05-06
- 187Bill Belichick, NFL Draft analyst, shows his media potential on 'The Pat McAfee Show'Andrew Marchand — April 26, 2024
- 188In its unflinching exploration of male ego, The Dynasty illustrates the true cost of greatnessJesse Pantuosco — 2024-02-26
- 189Sources: Bill Belichick will not be a first-ballot Hall of FamerDon Van Natta Jr. et al. — 2026-01-27
- 190Wetzel: If Belichick isn't first ballot, just shut the Hall downDan Wetzel — 2026-01-28
- 191NFL world in disbelief over Bill Belichick Hall of Fame reportNick Brinkerhoff — January 27, 2026
- 192NewsBill Belichick’s Hall of Fame snub has a whiff of piety, score-settlingSteve Buckley — 2026-01-28
- 194Schefter Rips Media Voters, Bill Polian for Belichick Snub Because HC Wasn't 'Warm and Fuzzy'Adam Wells — January 29, 2026
- 196Trump: Belichick falling short in Hall of Fame vote ‘ridiculous’Dominick Mastrangelo — January 28, 2026
- 197Report: Ex-Colts GM told Hall of Fame voters Bill Belichick should ‘wait a year’ as punishment for SpygateChris Mason — 2026-01-27
- 198NewsHall of Fame confirms Bill Polian voted to induct Bill BelichickMatt Moret — 2026-01-29
- 199NewsWho snubbed Bill Belichick in Hall of Fame vote? Fans deserve to knowDan Shanoff — 2026-01-28
- 200Bill Belichick’s Hall of Fame snub highlights voting problemsAndrew Siciliano — 2026-01-28
- 201NCAA Statistics; Coach; Bill BelichickNational Collegiate Athletic Association
- 202Bill Belichick Honors First NFL Boss: 'I Wouldn't Be Here If It Wasn't For Ted Marchibroda'Michael Hurley — January 16, 2016
- 203Ex-Lions coach Rick Forzano dies; gave Bill Belichick his start in NFLMichael Rothstein — January 10, 2019
- 204Patriots coach Belichick is fond of his Lions memoriesJosh Katzenstein — November 23, 2014
- 205Belichick's roots in DenverWoody Paige — January 28, 2008
- 206Belichick recalls 'life-changing' hire by Ray PerkinsMike Rodak — December 11, 2020
- 207Parcells' coaching tree as sturdy as they comeJim Corbett — July 29, 2013
- 208The Browns get a new quarterbacks coach – UPI ArchivesFebruary 4, 1994
- 209Bill Belichick coaching tree: How they fared as NFL head coachesGreg Joyce — January 7, 2020
- 210NewsBill Belichick was once so impressed by Pat Hill's coaching he hired him on the spotZach Barnett — January 27, 2015
- 211Former Vanderbilt football coach Woody Widenhofer has died at 77Mike Organ — March 23, 2020
- 212Iowa's Kirk Ferentz 'very appreciative' of family ties with Patriots head coach Bill BelichickJosh Helmer — August 7, 2022
- 213Al Groh's ties to Belichick, CoughlinKen Sugiura — March 22, 2012
- 214Here's why Bill Belichick says Romeo Crennel is the best coach he's ever worked with in Hall of Fame careerJeff Kerr — November 18, 2020
- 215Weis and Crennel leave Patriots on topMichael Smith — February 6, 2005
- 216What makes Bill Belichick different from other NFL coaches, according to Eric ManginiMark Dunphy — August 2, 2018
- 217Josh McDaniels: I wouldn't be in the NFL if it wasn't for Patriots coach Bill BelichickMark Daniels — December 14, 2022
- 218Bill Belichick: 'I can't say enough' about Jim SchwartzChris Wesselling — January 29, 2018
- 219DeWayne Walker to UW?October 30, 2008
- 221Patriots hire former Penn State coach as offensive coordinatorAndrew Harbaugh — January 24, 2023
- 222Matt Patricia discussed his relationship with Bill BelichickZachary DuPont — August 6, 2019
- 223Brian Flores Is Hired as Dolphins Coach After Helping Patriots to Super BowlKen Belson — February 5, 2019
- 224MagazineReport: Bill Belichick Called Giants With Recommendation of Joe JudgeMichael Shapiro — January 7, 2020
- 225Illinois football: Three things Bret Bielema learned from Patriots' Bill BelichickAustin Nivison — September 4, 2021
- 226Jedd Fisch's 11 months under Bill Belichick prepped him for Arizona's coaching jobMichael Lev — December 16, 2022
- 227Daboll returns to New England to face Belichick, JudgePat Leonard — August 10, 2022
- 228Hiring Bill Belichick assistants rarely works out. Here's why Jerod Mayo could be differentChristian D'Andrea — USA Today — January 12, 2024
- 229Belichick: Cardinals' Kliff Kingsbury went above and beyond as a rookieTyler Drake — 25 November 2020
- 230Patriots' Mike Vrabel Gets 'Real' About Bill Belichick RelationshipGio Rivers — 13 January 2025
- 231Unlikely influenceCharles Robinson — July 30, 2007
- 232Belichick was no genius overnightMichael Wilbon — 2005-02-03
- 233Bill Cowher Almost Became The Cleveland Browns Head Coach In 1991Alex Kozora — 2023-10-26
- 234Why do Belichick coordinators keep failing as head coaches?Jesse Pantuoso — Entercom — November 28, 2020
- 235A look at former Bill Belichick assistants (and players) who became NFL head coachesNick Klopsis — December 2, 2020
- 236MagazineTrump will appoint Bill Belichick to sports councilCharlotte Carroll — May 4, 2018
- 237Meet Bill Belichick's Dog, NikeCNBC — September 6, 2018
- 238MagazineDemand is Surging for the Alaskan Klee Kai, After Bill Belichick's Dog Won the NFL DraftConor Orr — May 29, 2020
- 240Plenković uručio domovnicu Billu Belichicku, a on njemu loptuCroatian Radiotelevision (HRT) — 3 June 2024
- 242Bill Belichick, Jordon Hudson File for 'Gold Digger' TrademarkJason Clinkscales — 2025-08-27
- 243NewsAfter a bruising year, Belichick opens upBella English — March 4, 2007
- 244Debby Clarke Belichick BiographyFebruary 20, 2021
- 247NewsSteve Belichick joins dad Bill on Patriots coaching staffMay 11, 2012
- 249Steve Belichick details mentoring his brother, Brian, who was promoted to safeties coachIsaiah Houde — USA Today — August 7, 2020
- 251Winning CombinationRobert Cocuzzo et al. — June 28, 2017
- 252Ex NFL coach Bill Belichick, 72, reportedly dating 24-year-old former cheerleader Jordon HudsonMeredith Clark — 18 June 2024
- 253Who is Jordon Hudson? Meet Bill Belichick's reported younger girlfriendNicki Cox — 2024-06-17
- 254Trump to award Bill Belichick the Medal of Freedom amid House impeachment pushMeridith McGraw — January 10, 2021
- 255NewsBill Belichick says he won't accept Presidential Medal of Freedom from TrumpCindy Boren et al. — January 12, 2021
- 256Bill Belichick declines Presidential Medal of Freedom offer from TrumpKevin Dotson — January 12, 2021
- 257Belichick releases statement, won't accept Medal of Freedom from President TrumpNick Goss — January 11, 2021
- 258Senator Ed Markey, Representative Jim McGovern call on Bill Belichick to decline Presidential Medal of FreedomKatie McInerney — January 11, 2021
- 259Bill Belichick Has A Notable History Of Supporting ArmeniaAlex Reimer — 2020-11-19
- 261NewsBill Belichick opens up about Trump letter, while Tom Brady says ‘talk to my wife’Cindy Boren — 2016-11-09
- 262Bill Belichick says that US should ‘take action against’ Turkey and Azerbaijan in conflict - The Boston GlobeJim McBride — November 18, 2020
- 263Bill Belichick showed his support for Armenians fighting for freedomTrevor Hass — 2020-11-01
- 265MagazineGeorge R.R. Martin on Belichick, the Patriots and DynastiesGreg Bishop — 2018-02-02
- 266Bill Belichick Won't Be In Madden 19, And That's No Surprise At AllEddie Makuch — July 24, 2018
- 267NewsBelichick plugs in his rocker friendJanuary 29, 2004
- 268Bill Belichick and Jon Bon Jovi were friends through the yearsChris Van Buskirk — 2024-01-12
- 269NewsBELICHICK, BON JOVI IN PERFECT HARMONY Football & music have brought coach & rocker togetherRich Cimini — January 25, 2005
- 270Bon Jovi on football: It's my lifeNew England Patriots — August 29, 2002
- 271NewsFamily Guy: "3 Acts Of God"Kevin McFarland — March 17, 2014
- 272VideoFrank Caliendo Does His Best Bill Belichick (Full Spoof HD)October 5, 2014
- 273The Simpsons may love Boston, but they still don't like the PatriotsKevin Slane — October 9, 2016
- 274News'Voted off the island': Inside Bill Belichick's failed job huntDon Jr. Van Natta et al. — April 17, 2024
- 275BookFinding the Winning EdgeBill Walsh — Sports Publishing Inc. — 1998
- 276BookThe Education of a CoachDavid Halberstam — Hyperion — 2006
- 277BookBrady vs. Belichick: The Dynasty DebateGary Myers — St. Martin's Press — 2025