UPDATE: We wrote this in 2022, but it feels pertinent with Bill Belichick out in New England.
We’ve known this for years, and yet, NFL teams keep going back to the well.
You can try to take Bill Belichick out of New England by hiring one of his assistant coaches or coordinators. But you can’t make your team the Patriots 2.0 in the process.
Joe Judge and Brian Flores are the latest ex-Pats or those with ties to Belichick to be fired, with the pair losing their jobs in the past couple of days, although the two of them have had VERY different careers as head coaches.
So let’s rank the worst to … the less bad. And maybe NFL teams will think twice about trying to hire a former Belichick assistant.