NFL Expert Bold Prediction: Dallas Cowboys Could Hire Bill Belichick From New England Patriots
Gary Myers admits he's just speculating. But when a Pro Football Hall of Fame voter and author of a best-selling book about Tom Brady with 55 years of experience covering the NFL starts "connecting the dots" on the New England Patriots, you get out your No. 2 pencil and start following along.
Myers, who has extensive and intimate knowledge of both the Pats and Dallas Cowboys, suggests the next landing spot for Bill Belichick will be with Jerry Jones. The iconic coach is 27-32 and without a playoff win since Brady left Foxboro, and reports this week say he could be fired if the Pats lose Sunday to the Indianapolis Colts in Germany.
"If Bill Belichick is out in NE after the season and Robert Kraft looks to trade him (he's under contract)," Myers wrote this week in a lengthy Twitter post, "don't count out the Cowboys."
The man who wrote the New York Times bestseller Brady vs. Manning and How 'Bout Them Cowboys?! believes the six-time Super Bowl champion coach joining the franchise with five Lombardi trophies is a real possibility. Why?
He outlines several reasons, er, dots to be connected:
Could Cowboys owner Jerry Jones hire Bill Belichick away from the Patriots?
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*Both the Cowboys and Belichick are desperate to win now. He's 71 and needs 18 more victories to pass Don Shula for the NFL's all-time record. Dallas hasn't won a Super Bowl since 1996. Jones turned 81 last month. "That's why the Washington rumors don't make a lot of sense to me," Myers wrote. "The Commanders personnel is two years from winning."
*If/when the Cowboys don't win the title this year, Jones will tire of four years of regular-season success ruined by postseason failure with coach Mike McCarthy. "I hope Jerry's not running out of time, but he must be running out of patience," Myers said. "I think Jones will realize what everybody else seems to know about McCarthy: He's just an average coach who won just one Super Bowl in GB despite two years with Brett Favre and 11 with Aaron Rodgers."
*When he needed to get his team over the hump 20 year ago, Jones hired Bill Parcells - the man who just so happens to be Belichick's close friend and primary sounding board. "Parcells loved his four years working for Jones and regrets his emotional decision to quit shortly after Tony Romo dropped the snap on the game-winning FG attempt in the wild-card game in Seattle following the '06 season," Myers wrote. "Jones holds Belichick in very high regard. If Belichick asks Parcells for advice on working for Jones, he will give him high marks."
*Nobody loves a creative marketing angle more than Jones, and he would relish the opportunity to capitalize on Belichick's historical march to break Shula's record. Writes Myers, "If Belichick passes Shula while he's the Cowboys coach, Jerry will find a way to pay Belichick's salary times two." (After his team walloped New England, 38-3, in October, Jones called the demise of the Patriots "surreal.")
Myers concludes by admitting Belichick didn't plan accordingly for Brady's departure and has whiffed on several important draft choices and free agents. But with Dak Prescott, CeeDee Lamb, Micah Parsons and Trevon Diggs in or near their prime, the Cowboys provide the future Hall-of-Fame coach a plug-and-play situation where he could get both his individual record and America's Team a long-awaited Super Bowl.
