My expectation is that he will be traded. I don’t have any hope that he will be brought back next year, but I have even less hope that we will magically find a coach better than him to replace him with.

I think this was a bit of a prove it year with Kraft and he hasn’t proven it. The last 5 or so years of drafts have just not been good and he won’t work in a structure where there was a GM he had to report to. Due to this I think he and Kraft reach a point where neither will give in and so they divorce.

I love the guy but the reality is he would only be here a few more years anyway so why not have an amicable parting of the ways at the end of the season, maybe we get a draft pick out of it, hire a whole new regime who can try to rebuild. It’s tremendously risky, about as risky as drafting a QB but it may be time and you can lure a top coach candidate with the idea of picking their own QB with a top draft pick.

My opinion is that this will be BBs last season and he will head off somewhere like the Chargers who can win now.

I think it extremely unlikely Bill is ever “fired.”

At worst, I think some sort of mutual parting of ways.

But I still think Bill gets anothrr shot.

If he would accept not being the GM, I’d be interested in keeping him as the coach. The problem is that he’s never going to agree to that, so I think he’s gonzo. He has another year on his contract, so he’s either retiring, getting traded, or getting fired. Don’t think he’ll be back.

He has gutted the franchise by hiring nothing except yes-men, whether they come in the form of retreads, blatant nepotism hires, or ex-players. He cannot draft at all, and it has gotten to the point where entire classes are wasted due to his ego and inability.

In 2023, he saw how bad the Patriots offense was, and proceded to spend all of our first three picks on defense, likely to help his own children or his own “legacy” as the defensive gameplanner/playcaller.

He wasted a year of Mac’s rookie contract and destroyed the QB development process by hiring MATT PATRICIA as OC, just because he was not willing to make a hire outside his own circle.

The team is not well coached. We make insanely boneheaded errors week in and week out. We spend an incredible amount on special teams, both in terms of cap and roster space, and yet have one of the worst special teams in the league.

Get him OUT. Ben Johnson HC 2024.

The team needs to move on from Belichick whether that means firing or trading him. Those who disagree are living in the past.

If he is fired and Mac is the QB next year… I go from Mac Hater to Pats hater for a looong ass time.

I think at this point it’s a Steelers-esque situation. No in-season firings on the table. As far as after the season… I find it very unlikely since there are no better candidates immediately available, and Bill as a coach has actually been fairly good when you look at the film. As a general manager? Miserable evaluation of talent. We get maybe one serviceable player from every draft class and our first round picks bust every year like clockwork. If he is to be forced out, this would be why.

Also - where would he even go? He’s unlikely to want to leave because no team is going to have a HC vacancy that’s not also in a rebuild with no decent QB UNLESS the chargers finally axe their coach. That’s the one team I can see Bill taking the job for - and he’d absolutely love to stick it to Mahomes as often as he possibly can.

Side note: I really hope Achane heals up quickly he’s perhaps my favorite Fins player to watch. May he lead you to your regular early playoff exit.