Could Bill Belichick be flying further south than Atlanta next offseason?
With the Jaguars off to an 0-3 start in coach Doug Pederson’s third year at the helm, The Monday Morning Quarterback’s Albert Breer connected the Belichick dot to Jacksonville, should owner Shad Khan decide to make sweeping adjustments.
“They’re just a sneaky one with Belichick for me,” Breer said Tuesday on the “Dan Patrick Show,” hours after the Jaguars were blown out by the Bills, 47-10, on “Monday Night Football.”
“(Khan’s son and Jaguars chief football strategy officer) Tony Khan has a strong relationship with Bill Belichick … to the point where — so when they hired Doug Marrone full-time, they removed the interim tag [in 2017], that was largely on the advice of Bill Belichick to do it. So, Bill has had the ear of ownership in that place for a while now. And I just wonder if that’s not rattling around in the heads of ownership up there now.”
Breer said that there are other factors beyond football that could make Belichick enticing.
“And now you’ve got sponsorships to sell, you’ve got suites to sell, all of that stuff. Do you need some more credibility?” Breer said. “There are some things that line up there where I wouldn’t totally rule out that as a viable possibility for Belichick in 2025. He does have a place, I think, right down the street. I guess down I-95 there in South Florida too, so that wouldn’t hurt either.”
Belichick spent the past 24 seasons in New England, where he won six Super Bowls alongside future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady.
He parted ways with the team in January following a woeful 4-13 campaign and interviewed multiple times for the Falcons vacancy, a job that ultimately went to Raheem Morris.
Although Belichick, 72, has settled into multiple broadcast jobs this season, ESPN reported earlier this month he’s keeping the door open for coaching in 2025 “but only in the right situations with good jobs.”
The Jaguars, just two seasons removed from a playoff appearance, have a critical three-week stretch ahead to potentially right the ship, beginning with a divisional matchup Sunday against the Texans (2-1).
They host the Colts (1-2) the following week before traveling to London for an international clash against the Bears (1-2) on Oct. 13.
Breer added he feels “there’s a lot on the line for a lot of people in that organization over the next few weeks.”
Pederson promised that everything would be evaluated after Buffalo demolished Jacksonville.
“There has to be changes, whether it’s play design, personnel, everything,” said Pederson, who didn’t rule out a change at quarterback with Trevor Lawrence.
“Everything’s on the table, let’s call it, and those are all things that I have to look at, we have to look at as a staff and make the adjustments.”
In addition to Lawrence, the No. 1 pick by the Jaguars in the 2021 NFL Draft, Jacksonville has former first-rounder Mac Jones in the backup role.
Jones, the Patriots’ 15th overall pick in 2021, spent three seasons with Belichick, who benched the quarterback at different points in 2023 amid struggles.
The Jaguars hired Pederson in February 2022 following the team’s disastrous reign under Urban Meyer in 2021.
