Bill Belichick’s bedeviling of the Jets comes to an end
The thing is, this all started off so promisingly. The Jets already believed they held the moral high ground here, since it had been Bill Belichick whod done the walking after all of one day on the job as the HC of the NYJ.
They could have held his career hostage for a year, but Bill Parcells chose instead to let Belichick go inside the AFC East in exchange for the Pats No. 1 pick and after dealing that pick to the 49ers, that became Shaun Ellis, who would make two Pro Bowls for the Jets.
Best of all, there was Monday night, Sept. 11, 2000. In front of a national TV audience, it seemed like Belichick would earn a measure of revenge, his Patriots taking a 19-7 lead five minutes into the fourth quarter at old Giants Stadium, the first game he ever coached against the Jets and his old boss, Parcells as Patriots head coach. There were 77,687 folks who slandered and slurred and defamed Belichick from the moment he trotted on the field that night.
But he was going to get the last laugh.
Until he wasnt.
Until Vinny Testaverde twice found Wayne Chrebet in the end zone, the last a 28-yard strike with 1:55 left in the game that gave the Jets a 20-19 win, elevated them to 2-0 on the season, dropped the Pats to 0-2 and dipped Belichicks lifetime record to 30-36.
5Among the few times Jets fans got to partake in Belichick’s misery came because of the Giants. Joseph E. AmaturoBELI-CHOKE! screamed the back page of this newspaper, with a glee still audible 23-plus years later.
Theyre a tough team, Belichick said quietly afterward. This is a tough place to play.
The Jets won the return match at Foxboro later that year, 34-17, and won the first game of 2001, too, a 10-3 rock fight in the Jets last appearance at old Foxboro Stadium best remembered for Mo Lewis nearly knocking Drew Bledsoe into tomorrow, forcing Belichick to go to a green second-year man named well, you know his name.
What we know about the split between the Patriots and Bill Belichick
The Patriots and Bill Belichick will reportedly part ways on Thursday after 24 years and six Super Bowl wins.
Rumors had swirled around Belichicks future all season as the Patriots finished with a 4-13 record and missed the playoffs for the third time in four seasons. Belichick met with Patriots owner Robert Kraft over the past several days before reaching the mutual decision.
5Bill Belichick and the Patriots parted ways in January 2024 after 24 seasons. Getty ImagesBelichick notched a 266-121 overall record with the Patriots and has another 31 playoff victories.
The 71-year-old has no plans to retire, and needs just 15 more wins to match Don Shulas all-time wins record regular season and playoffs by a head coach in NFL history.
Patriots inside linebackers coach Jerod Mayo — who was the heir apparent — has taken over the job and become the next New England head coach.
After that one Belichick actually said: We play in the same division as they do. At some point were going to have to figure out how to beat them.
He figured it out. Over the following 47 games between the two teams, Belichick and the Patriots won 39 of them. That included a 15-game streak that lasted until Belichicks last hour as the Pats coach, last Sunday, when the Jets won a 17-3 pillow fight in the snow. Belichick and the Pats parted ways Thursday, locking in his final record as Pats coach as 266-121, a winning percentage of .687. Thats off the charts.
5Assistant head coach and defensive backs coach Bill Belichick, gives ponters to defensive back Raymond Austin. New York PostAgainst the Jets, he finishes 39-11. That figures to .780. Thats off the charts, off the page, off the hook.
Shaun Ellis was a nice player.
Fair to say: the Pats won that trade.
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There has been some speculation in the years since Tom Brady left the Pats regarding who deserves more credit for the New England dynasty. And Bradys denouement with the Buccaneers did yield three more playoff berths, and a seventh Super Bowl ring.
For the Jets, theres little question. Belichick kept beating the Jets without Brady. He beat them in 2008, when Matt Cassell was the quarterback. He beat them the last few years with Mac Jones and Cam Newton. The Jets have had seven coaches since Belichicks awkward press conference at Hofstra in January 2000. They have won exactly six playoff games in that time.
The Pats have six Lombardi Trophies.
5Belichick won 39 of his 50 games against the Jets in his career. Charles Wenzelberg/New York PostHe has been a nemesis and a noodge, a behooded behemoth that the Jets could never quite figure out (let alone replace), a looming shadow that has taken particular delight in haunting them, even when it seemed like piling on.
You want to summarize Belichicks feelings toward the Jets? Just watch the look that takes over his face during The Two Bills, the ESPN 30-for-30 documentary, the instant hes asked about the Jets. He looks like hes prepping for a colonoscopy.
And if you look at the world through green-tinted glasses, even two of Belichicks most high-profile failures came thanks to the Giants beating him a couple of times in the Super Bowl. You know that old quote: The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didnt exist?
5Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and Aaron Rodgers #8 of the New York Jets speak before a game at Gillette Stadium. Getty ImagesWell, OK. Belichick isnt the devil. Quite.
But in 24 seasons with the Pats, the only two times he tricked Jets fans into be truly happy at his expense was because they found themselves rooting for the Giants. Give the devil his due.
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