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Kirk Cousins Offers to Play For Ex Patriots Coach Bill – BELICHICK BLOG
With records of 31 playoff wins and six Super Bowls, along with 333 overall victories and three Coach of the Year awards over 29 seasons, Bill Belichick is one of the greatest head coaches in the history of the NFL and American sports.
As of last week, he is also the former coach of the New England Patriots and a coveted free agent.
While the Pats move on with new coach Jerod Mayo, Belichick seeks to land with another team next season.
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JAN. 19 KIRK COUSINS VOLUNTEERING TO PLAY FOR BELICHICK – With Belichick on the verge of becoming the next head coach of the Falcons, speculation is turning to who his quarterback will be in Atlanta. As far as the most important position football, Bill is sort of out of the frying pan in Foxboro and into the fire in Atlanta.
In the wake of Tom Brady’s departure from the Patriots, Cam Newton didn’t work out and now first-round pick Mac Jones has dramatically regressed. Bailey Zappe started the season’s final four games, but New England’s quarterback situation is up in the air as it owns the No. 3 overall pick in April’s NFL Draft.
What Belichick would inherit in Atlanta isn’t much better. After trading their version of Brady – veteran Matt Ryan – in 2021, the Falcons have tried Marcus Mariota, Desmond Ritter and Taylor Heinicke without much success.
A veteran could be an option, and potential free agent Kirk Cousins said this week that he would jump at the chance to play for Belichick.
“I’m not gonna turn down an opportunity to play with a future Hall of Fame coach,” Cousins said. “I have great respect for him as a coach, like everyone else in pro football. I mean, if you go to that many Super Bowls, win that many Super Bowls, go to that many conference championship games, have the defensive production he’s had for years and years, it says it all.”
The 35-year-old Cousins, for 299 yards and three touchdowns in the Vikings’ Thanksgiving night win over the Patriots in 2022.
