What happened to Bill Belichick the legendary football coach who refused to accept distractions
Forget, if possible, the 24-year-old girlfriend who doubles as a public relations fixer on a college campus. Remember Mac Jones, Cam Newton, 4-13, and Bill Belichick coldly being tossed away by the New England Patriots. Bill Belichick has gone through a big change since losing Tom BradyGetty The greatest coach in NFL history doesn’t have a Jordon Hudson problem – outside of the fact that the 73-year-old Hoodie oddly appears to be allowing a 24-year-old girlfriend to run his life. Belichick increasingly has a serious football problem. He’s an easy target on social media. He couldn’t get back into pro football if he tried right now — and a man with 302 career wins spent the last two offseasons trying. And while Tom Brady has transitioned from a seven-time Super Bowl winner into a $375 million man calling the big game for FOX, his old coach is stuck coaching college kids while self-sabotaging his own image. Who is Belichick in 2025? He’s not a defensive genius who built a system around Brady, made ‘Do your job’ a life mantra in Boston, and coached the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history. To a generation obsessed with Tik Tok, Instagram, X and Facebook, Belichick is a creepy old guy with a hole in his sweatshirt trying to convince kids that North Carolina is a football school, not a basketball school. Nick Saban is hipper than ever on ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ and could soon pair up with United States President Donald Trump to save college football in the Name, Image and Likeness era. Belichick has one season with a winning record since 2019, and the world has completely changed since 2020. GettyBelichick and Jordon Hudson attended a Super Bowl party[/caption] GettyBelichick won six Super Bowls with Brady in New England[/caption] AFP or licensorsThe Patriots celebrated a 2017 world championship with US President Donald Trump[/caption] Not convinced? Then just remember that the grumpiest coach of all-time briefly made himself cool again during the past NFL season, juggling podcasts and media interviews, and almost convincing league executives that he wasn’t a micromanager completely obsessed with his own ego. A few months later, Mike Vrabel is coaching the Pats, Travis Hunter is a Jacksonville Jaguar, and Belichick is hiding out on a book tour after going viral for the worst TV interview of the decade. “Bill Belichick is the Greatest Head Coach in NFL History, but his girlfriend Jordon Hudson is becoming a problem,” tweeted Robert Griffin III, who won a Heisman Trophy and produced one of the most thrilling rookie seasons in NFL history. “Bill can date whoever he wants, but his relationship has become the one thing he always hated as a coach, a DISTRACTION for his UNC Football team.” Getting blasted by RGIII is one thing. Getting torched by one of Brady’s favorite wide receivers and the MVP of Super Bowl LIII is impossible to ignore. “The No. 1 thing we used to talk about all the time in New England was distractions,” Julian Edelman said on The Herd with Colin Cowherd “ ‘Let’s not make distractions. The game’s already as hard as it is. To prepare for it, to play, to coach.’ “And regardless of what her role is, Jordon, yeah, I thought he got an unfair public opinion on the whole thing, because that happens all the time. Anytime we do behind-the-scenes this, that, you’ve got someone that represents you, they’re gonna jump in. “But now that it’s gained and it’s snowballed to what it’s become right now, where we’re talking about it three weeks later, it’s become a distraction. That’s what we all think right now. This is becoming a distraction. We gotta practice what we preach here.” Belichick the NFL genius would have already fired Hudson for being a total distraction to his football team, while not making a positive impact on the field of the play. But seven years after his last Super Bowl trophy, it’s hard to remember when Belichick was a great football coach and not just a soft punching bag on social media. He got it wrong with Newton. He got it wrong with Jones. He got it wrong by getting rid of Brady too soon, and hasn’t been the same coach since the centerpiece of the Patriots’ dynasty won a Super Bowl in Tampa Bay. North Carolina football is all about Belichick, not the young college kids he’s supposed to be leading and inspiring. That me-first culture never would have been allowed in the building in New England.
Forget, if possible, the 24-year-old girlfriend who doubles as a public relations fixer on a college campus.
Remember Mac Jones, Cam Newton, 4-13, and Bill Belichick coldly being tossed away by the New England Patriots.
The greatest coach in NFL history doesn’t have a Jordon Hudson problem – outside of the fact that the 73-year-old Hoodie oddly appears to be allowing a 24-year-old girlfriend to run his life.
Belichick increasingly has a serious football problem.
He’s an easy target on social media.
He couldn’t get back into pro football if he tried right now — and a man with 302 career wins spent the last two offseasons trying.
And while Tom Brady has transitioned from a seven-time Super Bowl winner into a $375 million man calling the big game for FOX, his old coach is stuck coaching college kids while self-sabotaging his own image.
Who is Belichick in 2025?
He’s not a defensive genius who built a system around Brady, made ‘Do your job’ a life mantra in Boston, and coached the greatest comeback in Super Bowl history.
To a generation obsessed with Tik Tok, Instagram, X and Facebook, Belichick is a creepy old guy with a hole in his sweatshirt trying to convince kids that North Carolina is a football school, not a basketball school.
Nick Saban is hipper than ever on ESPN’s ‘College GameDay’ and could soon pair up with United States President Donald Trump to save college football in the Name, Image and Likeness era.
Belichick has one season with a winning record since 2019, and the world has completely changed since 2020.
Not convinced?
Then just remember that the grumpiest coach of all-time briefly made himself cool again during the past NFL season, juggling podcasts and media interviews, and almost convincing league executives that he wasn’t a micromanager completely obsessed with his own ego.
A few months later, Mike Vrabel is coaching the Pats, Travis Hunter is a Jacksonville Jaguar, and Belichick is hiding out on a book tour after going viral for the worst TV interview of the decade.
“Bill Belichick is the Greatest Head Coach in NFL History, but his girlfriend Jordon Hudson is becoming a problem,” tweeted Robert Griffin III, who won a Heisman Trophy and produced one of the most thrilling rookie seasons in NFL history.
“Bill can date whoever he wants, but his relationship has become the one thing he always hated as a coach, a DISTRACTION for his UNC Football team.”
Getting blasted by RGIII is one thing.
Getting torched by one of Brady’s favorite wide receivers and the MVP of Super Bowl LIII is impossible to ignore.
“The No. 1 thing we used to talk about all the time in New England was distractions,” Julian Edelman said on The Herd with Colin Cowherd
“ ‘Let’s not make distractions. The game’s already as hard as it is. To prepare for it, to play, to coach.’
“And regardless of what her role is, Jordon, yeah, I thought he got an unfair public opinion on the whole thing, because that happens all the time. Anytime we do behind-the-scenes this, that, you’ve got someone that represents you, they’re gonna jump in.
“But now that it’s gained and it’s snowballed to what it’s become right now, where we’re talking about it three weeks later, it’s become a distraction. That’s what we all think right now. This is becoming a distraction. We gotta practice what we preach here.”
Belichick the NFL genius would have already fired Hudson for being a total distraction to his football team, while not making a positive impact on the field of the play.
But seven years after his last Super Bowl trophy, it’s hard to remember when Belichick was a great football coach and not just a soft punching bag on social media.
He got it wrong with Newton.
He got it wrong with Jones.
He got it wrong by getting rid of Brady too soon, and hasn’t been the same coach since the centerpiece of the Patriots’ dynasty won a Super Bowl in Tampa Bay.
North Carolina football is all about Belichick, not the young college kids he’s supposed to be leading and inspiring.
That me-first culture never would have been allowed in the building in New England.
