Six-time Super Bowl championship coach Bill Belichick will turn 70 on Saturday.
Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk recently recalled a conversation he had with Kraft several years ago regarding Belichick and it seems he wants the future hall of fame coach to keep coaching for quite some time.
“Several years ago at the league meetings, Robert Kraft told me that he wants to see Bill Belichick coach into his 80s. He wants to see him perform at a high level like a Warren Buffett or a Rupert Murdoch well past his 80th birthday — he believes he can,” Florio said on Friday.
McDaniels, the Raiders new head coach and a former Patriots assistant coach, doesn’t see his old boss stepping away from football anytime soon.
“He still attacks the job the same now that I saw him attack it when I first started in 2001,” McDaniels said during an interview with NBC Sports’ Peter King. “Doesn’t matter what part of the year it is. The big thing that Bill has going for him and has always done is he loves all the facets of the football season, whether it’s scouting, preparation for a game, roster evaluation, team-building, developmental parts of the year for the young players. All of those things get weighted the same for him.”
Bill Belichick has been the New England Patriots’ head coach for over two decades and Kraft wants to keep Belichick for long even after 22 years together.
Click on ‘Follow Us’ and get notified of the most viral NFL stories via Google! Follow Us
Belichick hasn’t shown any signs of slowing down as he continues to help build another championship contender with the Patriots.
After a year off from the playoffs, the Patriots returned to the postseason in 2021 behind new QB Mac Jones, but ended up losing in the Wild Card round.
