Curran, Perry share latest details on Belichick’s reported extension originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
Bill Belichick’s future as head coach of the New England Patriots has become more and more of a storyline as the team’s season has steadily worsened with each passing week.
The Patriots enter Sunday’s Week 7 game against the Buffalo Bills with a 1-5 record — their worst mark at this point in a season since 1995. The post-Tom Brady era has been largely lackluster with the exception of 2021. This year’s campaign has been particularly troubling, especially on offense.
It’s fair to wonder if Belichick is the coach next season given what’s transpired so far in 2023. And that’s why it was interesting to hear NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport report Sunday morning that Belichick signed a lucrative, multi-year extension this past offseason.
Specific details about Belichick’s extension — or any of his previous contracts with the Patriots, for that matter — are pretty hard to come by.
Our insiders Tom E. Curran and Phil Perry shared what they’re hearing about Belichick’s reported extension during NBC Sports Boston’s Pregame Live.
“Yeah, Ian Rapoport reporting that it is a lucrative multi-year extension. So let’s try and interrogate that. My understanding is lucrative — of course, it’s lucrative — it’s Bill Belichick. He makes a lot of dough,” Curran said. “Multi year, that simply could mean 2023 and 2024, for instance. So that extension would satisfy in some ways, perhaps a timeline for Jerod Mayo.
“Jerod Mayo signed a two-year extension as a linebackers coach at the end of last year. Robert Kraft was very open about talking about Jerod Mayo as perhaps one day a head coach, maybe even here. So I would be stunned. I would be amazed, I would be dumbstruck if Bill Belichick’s lucrative extension ran past 2024. What’s interesting to me, and we’re going to get to it, is the why of this report and what that means going forward into next year.”
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