‘That’s Ridiculous!’ Bill Belichick - Dallas Cowboys ‘Dream’ - Reacts to Rumors
FRISCO - The recipe: Start with a zany Bill Belichick rumor from a reporter who then carefully claims “I’m not a reporter.” Mix in a Dallas Cowboys rumor about a coaching change from a reporter who carefully suggests that this is simply “what he’s hearing.”
Just add water - and a headline that irresponsibly insists that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’ “dream” is to fire his winning coach Mike McCarthy and to replace him with the losing (but legendary) Patriots boss Belichick - and what had been cooked up?
“Yeah,” Belichick responded on Monday to a question about part of this junk,” that’s ridiculous.”
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Belichick’s response on WEEI is specific to an odd rumor started by ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky, who said he has heard that the iconic coach’s next team has already been determined.
(Almost as soon as Orlovsky uttered this he seemed to want to take it back, stuttering and stammering uncharacteristically before going CYA by adding, zzzz.)
But the same response - “Yeah, that’s ridiculous” - can also apply if we marry this nonsense with two national media guys’ insistence that there is meanwhile a coming connection between Belichick and the Cowboys.
SI’s Albert Breer recently claimed that Dallas joins Washington as the teams “most connected” to having a future with Belichick.
But … connected by whom, exactly? New York-based writer Gary Myers, who a month ago reported on the possibility before then retracting his own report?
Unfortunately for anyone who values accuracy, the horses are already out of the barn here, causing some in Cowboys Nation to consider the firing of McCarthy in favor of Belichick to be a front-burner issue here inside The Star.
It is not. And yet, headlines that suggest that Belichick represents Jerry’s “dream” and that it would be “a perfect match” continue to be churned out.
Should serious-minded Cowboys followers, at this time, take any of this seriously?
“Yeah, that’s ridiculous,” Belichick said.
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