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I looked for a Belichick thread to put this in, but I didn't want to bury it. Rich Eisen talks about how NIL has changed the way things are done now. He starts by talking about how Caleb Williams approached the combine was affected by the money he's already earned. He gets into Saban walking away, saying that he knew it was time when "70-80% of his players wanted playing time and NIL assurances". This certainly affected his decision. Further, I think it trickles in to the NFL, when these kids come in to the league and they have money in the bank already, they most likely must be coached from a different angle than Bill did with his ways. He also gets into Chip Kelly's decision to go to Ohio State and just be an OC.
I have posted this before, but I think the two go together, this NIL situation and Bill's penchant for knocking players down a peg or two when they first get to the NFL. I think his statement goes against what young players may believe coming out of college. There's gotta be an amount of "eff you Bill Belichick, I don't need to listen to your ****, I got 4m in the bank.". We know that Tom took 20 years to get there, Gronk was there as well. I have to think that today's players might listen to that for 20 minutes, and not 20 years, and that's likely why we are seeing such a youth movement in today's NFL head coaches.