Patriots reportedly considered worst-case scenario replacement for Bill Belichick

It’s almost impossible to duplicate what the New England Patriots had for two decades with Bill Belichick and Tom Brady working in tandem. Belichick assistants like Matt Patricia and Bill O’Brien have tried everything they can to do so, but they’ve fallen on their faces at every turn.

Unfortunately, as the flurry of reports and books that have come out in the past few years have confirmed, Brady and Belichick were often butting heads with one another.

Even owner Robert Kraft was no fan of Belichick, as Seth Wickersham claims that he has used some R-rated language to describe him once upon a time.

It got to the point where Kraft even had the idea of replacing Belichick in the back of his mind.

While Josh McDaniels made the most sense as an in-house option, Kraft and Brady reportedly had their heart set on hiring a former assistant that would’ve absolutely caused NFL Twitter to spontaneously combust.

According to Wickersham, Brady and Kraft had a meeting in which they discussed Bill O’Brien, who was coming off of a 4-12 season as the head coach of the Houston Texans, as a potential replacement for Belichick, who would later guide the Patriots to yet another championship.

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O’Brien was Brady’s quarterback coach for two seasons and offensive coordinator in 2011 before being named the first post-Joe Paterno head coach at Penn State. While he won his fair share of games in Houston, his tenure was full of ill-advised trades, and no Texans fan was sad to see him go.

He’s currently the offensive coordinator for Nick Saban’s Alabama juggernaut.

One of the more interesting points of friction between coach and owner in Wickersham’s account was the fact that Kraft called Belichick an “idiot savant” and claims that without him giving Belichick the Patriots job in 2000, he wouldn’t be regarded as the greatest coach in NFL history.

From the outside looking in, this sounds like a classic case of two people who are the very best at what they do clashing over who gets what percentage of credit. While Belichick and Brady have both tried their best to downplay any rift and dispel rumors that he forced the QB out of town, that hasn’t done much to satiate those who want to unearth some more drama.

With Brady fresh off his return to New England for the first time since his departure, emotions and tensions were running hot. This might not be the last revealing story about this dynamic that makes its way into the public eye.

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