Ex-NFL writer torches Bill Belichick over disastrous TV interview

Just erstwhile you thought helium was out, Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson pulled him backmost in.

Retired NFL writer Peter King announced his status successful 2024 aft decades arsenic a columnist for Sports Illustrated and Pro Football Talk arsenic good arsenic a newsman connected "Football Night successful America" connected NBC. But Belichick’s publication tour, which dominated the nationalist speech implicit the past week, brought him backmost into the media spotlight.

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Feb. 6, 2025; New Orleans, LA: Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson connected the reddish carpet earlier Super Bowl LIX NFL Honors astatine Saenger Theatre. (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

King sounded disconnected connected Belichick’s disastrous nationalist relations run successful a podcast interview.

"This is simply a feline who owned each country helium ever walked into, and present he’s got a 24-year-old muse telling him what to bash oregon trying to power situations that, rather frankly, she has thing to bash with oregon should person thing to bash with," helium said connected "Sports Media with Richard Deitsch." "Bill’s got to get a clasp of himself here. He’s got to get a clasp of this situation. This is embarrassing. It’s wholly embarrassing for a feline who’s arsenic large astatine his occupation arsenic helium is."

King added that for Belichick to bash an interview, similar helium did for CBS, helium had to beryllium a spot much absorbing and the other of the benignant of media property helium was erstwhile helium coached the New England Patrots.

"Bill Belichick, to beforehand a book, goes connected Sunday greeting tv for nevertheless agelong it was, accidental 10 minutes, but goes connected Sunday greeting tv with a sweatshirt connected with a spread successful it. Look astatine the video of it," King continued. "He’s got a Navy sweatshirt connected that has a spread successful it. . . . Why does TMZ person him walking retired of the Ritz-Carlton hotel, I think, successful New York successful a perfectly tailored bluish suit? Why? Where’s helium going? And wherefore is helium connected a nationalist TV amusement looking similar he’s going to a property league successful Foxboro connected nary sleep, and past helium walks retired of a edifice going wherever he’s going. . . . That was a unspeakable look successful the archetypal place. . . .

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North Carolina Tar Heels caller caput manager Bill Belichick speaks to the media astatine Loudermilk Center for Excellence. (Jim Dedmon-Imagn Images)

"But successful general, if you’re going to beryllium promoting a publication oregon you’re going to beryllium doing interviews, you can’t beryllium the sullen, disinterested idiosyncratic that Bill Belichick was for CBS. You conscionable shouldn’t bash it then. Why bash it?"

King said that anyone who saw the CBS interrogation whitethorn not beryllium truthful keen to bargain the publication helium promoted successful the archetypal place.

Belichick broke his silence on the debacle Wednesday, defending his woman and accusing CBS of creating a "false narrative" with "selectively edited" clips.

"Unfortunately, that anticipation was not honored during the interview. I was amazed erstwhile unrelated topics were introduced, and I repeatedly expressed to the reporter, Tony Dokoupil, and the producers that I preferred to support the speech centered connected the book," the manager said.

"After this occurred respective times, Jordon, with whom I stock some a idiosyncratic and nonrecreational relationship, stepped successful to reiterate that constituent to assistance absorption the discussion. She was not deflecting immoderate circumstantial question oregon taxable but simply doing her occupation to guarantee the interrogation stayed connected track. Some of the clips marque it look arsenic though we were avoiding the question of however we met, but we person been unfastened astir the information that Jordon and I met connected a formation to Palm Beach successful 2021.

New England Patriots erstwhile caput manager Bill Belichick addressed the media astatine Gillette Stadium astir his departure. (John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

"The last eight-minute conception does not bespeak the productive 35-minute speech we had, which covered a wide scope of topics related to my career. Instead, it presents selectively edited clips and stills from conscionable a fewer minutes of the interrogation to suggest a mendacious communicative — that Jordon was attempting to power the speech — which is simply not true."

CBS aboriginal responded with a connection of its own.

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"When we agreed to talk with Mr. Belichick, it was for a wide-ranging interview," the institution said. "There were nary preconditions oregon limitations to this conversation. This was confirmed repeatedly with his steadfast earlier the interrogation took spot and aft it was completed."

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