Maybe it’s the end of an era. But Bill Belichick plans to coach. Pete Carroll still wants to coach. Nick Saban sounds like he doesn’t want to coach, but if you ran an NFL team, wouldn’t you call him, just to make sure?
As the NFL heads into wild-card weekend, coaches better not look up, because there are some pretty famous buzzards circling. The Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots sold their coaching changes as “mutual” this week, but they’re not fooling anybody. Carroll said he intended to coach the Seahawks next year and fought to do it, but he won’t. That means he was fired. Belichick may or may not have wanted a fresh start, but Patriots owner Robert Kraft sure did. Call that one what you want. Even Kraft said he expects to see Belichick on a sideline next year.
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