Both belichick’s best friends/mentors in football are now both out of football. Nick Saban retired from alabama two weeks ago.
Bill parcells, the dallas cowboys’ last coached game in the nfl in 2006, has finally shared his thoughts on bill leaving the patriots. “bill parcells said in an interview with the boston globe over the weekend that coaching can be a narcotic for guys like us. “i’ll put pete carroll and bill in there.” We think of ourselves as coaches.
It can be a grind, and the older you get, the more difficult it gets, but we love it. You know it’s going to end somewhere, but it’s never a good time.”belichick joined the new york giants in 1979 as a special teams coach under ray perkins. Belichick became parcells’ right-hand man two years later and worked with the linebackers, including a rookie first-round draft pick named lawrence taylor.
What advice would parcells give belichick now that the 71-year-old has shown that he wants to keep coaching and is the leading candidate for the atlanta falcons’ job? “i’ve been around long enough to know what he wants to do, and i really don’t have any idea what that is.” “all i know is that he is a football lifer,” he says. He’ll be looking for a setting that he believes is conducive to success. It’s either euphoria or disaster in this industry. I hope he does what makes him happy.’
