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Perry details ‘drama’ on Pats coaching staff amid Belichick uncertainty originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston
The New England Patriots are at an organizational crossroads, and it’s apparently led to some strife behind the scenes.
With the possibility that Bill Belichick may leave the team this offseason — our Phil Perry reports a parting of ways with Belichick seems “inevitable,” while our Tom E. Curran has reported a “decision was made” to part ways with Belichick following New England’s loss to the Indianapolis Colts in Germany — some Patriots coaches are doing their own speculation about their boss’ future, Perry reported Sunday on Patriots Pregame Live ahead of the team’s season finale against the New York Jets at Gillette Stadium.
“I spoke with several sources who told me they truly don’t know, but if they were leaning in one direction in terms of where it might go, there are a lot who are assuming this will be Bill Belichick’s last game as head coach with the Patriots,” Perry said. “And they would acknowledge, too, that it will be hard for (Belichick) to make his case in such a way to Robert Kraft that he will return.”
If this indeed is Belichick’s final season, it hasn’t exactly gone smoothly. The Patriots entered Sunday at 4-12 on pace for their worst season since 1992, and a report from the Boston Herald on Thursday detailed several examples of dysfunction on the coaching staff and in the locker room.
Perry followed that report with more intel on the coaching staff’s dysfunction.
“I’ve been told there is ‘drama’ on the coaching staff right now, as cliques have formed,” Perry said. “Not a lot of communication between individuals, between cliques, that you might expect would have a significant amount of communication at this point in the year.”
Interestingly enough, Perry noted that “drama” has been “a little bit quieter” in New England’s personnel department compared to the coaching staff, although some front office members still have questions about…
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Publish date : 2024-01-07 18:41:52
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