PFT: Emerging rumors of BB and SP to Giants

POSTED 8:20 p.m. EST, December 26, 2006​

RUMORS FLY OF BELICHICK TO GIANTS​

A league source tells us that there are emerging rumors in NFL circles linking Patriots coach Bill Belichick to the New York Giants.​

The move, per the rumors, would entail a package deal of Belichick and Pats V.P. of player personnel Scott Pioli.​

We don't buy it. Though Pioli clearly is in play for the Giants G.M. job (although there could be an effort by New England ownership to block a move), Belichick won't be coaching the Giants without the blessing of Robert and Jonathan Kraft. And there's no way in hell that the Krafts will allow both Pioli and Belichick to escape from the organization. ​

Despite some speculation in media circles that Belichick's contract might expire after 2006 (including an oddball shot-in-the-dark by Ron Borges that Belichick could end up with the Texans in 2007), Mike Reiss of the Boston Globe recently reported that 2006 is not the final season of Belichick's contract.​

Though the Krafts can't force Belichick to coach their team, the Krafts can stop him from coaching any other NFL team during years that are covered by his contract with the Pats.​

So while we love to monger a good rumor as much as anyone, this one simply won't happen.​

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SeanBruschi54 said:

HOW THE **** DID THIS RUMOR EVEN START??!?!?


This is just offensive to me as a fan of football.

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RayClay said:

http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm

Look at the name of the column.

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pats1 said:

http://www.profootballtalk.com/rumormill.htm

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Even Florio is skeptical.

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Box_O_Rocks said:

I find myself unmoved by any rumor of BB to NYG. Just for fun, I don't see Weis coming back as HC of the NEP - my first pick would be Brad Seeley, STs coach for the NEP.

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SeanBruschi54 said:

Just a question.

Why would Seely be your first choice?

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Box_O_Rocks said:

BB recommends him.

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Sean Pa Patriot said:

Will just wait till PFW in Progress for the rumor monger to start up.. I know Scott Pioli's goal, is to be with Giants.. And with Bill Belichick's quote other woman in his life, it makes some sense. I will be surprised if Belichick is not coaching anybody else but the Pats next yr..

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pats1 said:

More simple put, you think this is BB's last year with the Pats.

...that's....interesting...

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Sean Pa Patriot said:

No , i know the whole Belichick rumor thing is spreading.. His so called woman in his life works for the Giants.. But I will be shocked surprised, dissapointed and disgusted if Belichick is not coaching the Pats and no one else next yr..

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Vincent Shenocca, a 42-year-old New Jersey construction worker, filed for divorce from his wife, Sharon, a former receptionist with the New York Giants, on the grounds of “extreme mental cruelty.” Shenocca’s court papers say his wife of 10 years “has had a relationship with Bill Belichick for several years” and would not end it, despite her husband’s pleas.

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Remix 6 said:

hey guys. i heard BB was gonna coach my sister's flag football team

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PonyExpress said:

Special teams coaches are undervalued as head coaching candidates. They work with players from offense and defense, which forces them to understand the strengths and weaknesses of players on both sides of the ball, and avoid tunnel vision for the game. Plus they value the intangibles and grit so crucial to special teams play and winning football. The good ones are usually excellent organizers, competing with more prominent coordinators for practice time with the same players.

As far as these rumors. It is becoming easy to hate the Giants, to actively root for their destruction until they crumble to the level of the Oakland Raiders. The family that owns the team believes they are the royal family of football due to whose charity and largesse the rest of the league is granted permission to operate. How else does one explain their preposterous behavior during the 2004 draft, when they hijacked now disgraced golden boy QB Eli Manning from his rightful team? Along with this inflated sense of importance are constant public references they make to the "Family", such as last week, when one of the Mara boys went all Sonny Corleone on a spirited Eagle fan who gave the spoiled aristocrat a ribbing about his disastrous team... on the floor of the NY Stock Exchange Mr. Mara allegedly tried to strangle his tormentor, shouting, "Don't attack My Family!" What are they, some kind of upper crust mob? After engineering the Eli Manning disgrace, which was not only a black eye on the SD Chargers but on the league and the draft in general, they are now reaping the whirlwind. I suppose they feel they are owed the genius they threw out in 1990, the greatest coach since Paul Brown, to come back and clean up the mess they evacuated on the national carpet. Any allegiance BB may have had to the Giants ended in 1990 when George Young, their crusty old GM, who never warmed to the cerebral/introverted approach of our beloved BB, said he would never hire BB as the coach of the team after Parcells' departure, that he didn't have the stuff for it. If the Maras are actually trying to lure BB away from the fans of NE, let the Giants dangle in the wind, self-destruct into a national joke, let them join the Knicks as a byword for bloated disgrace in the world of sports.

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