Bill Belichick Takes Another Shot At Ex Boss Robert Kraft

Former New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick seemed to have taken another shot at team owner Robert Kraft and his brother.

In a recent interview with Ben Volin of The Boston Globe, Belichick described differences between coaching at the professional and collegiate levels. The former Patriots boss has just begun his first season with the University of North Carolina, where he was named head coach of the Tar Heels in December 2024.

But during the interview, Belichick appeared to have a jab at Robert and Jonathan Kraft, both of whom were and still are part of the Patriots hierarchy.

“It’s a much more cohesive, and I’d say unified, view of what we’re trying to do and how we’re trying to do it,” Belichick said. “It’s a lot of football, and there’s not much in your way.”

“There’s no owner, there’s no owner’s son.”

Since Belichick departed the Patriots after a 24-year stint, the two have exchanged hits with each other. In July, Kraft featured on the Dudes on Dudes podcast with Belichick’s former players Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman, and explained how he took a “big risk” by hiring Belichick in 2000.

However, Belichick quickly responded and claimed it was actually the other way around.

“As I told Robert multiple times through the years, I took a big risk by taking the New England Patriots head coaching job,” he said to ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. “I already had an opportunity to be the head coach of the New York Jets, but the ownership situation was unstable.”

“I had been warned by multiple previous Patriots’ coaches, as well as other members of other NFL organizations and the media, that the New England job was going to come with many internal obstacles,” he said. “I made it clear that we would have to change the way the team was managed to regain the previously attained success.”

Belichick led the Patriots to six Super Bowl championships during his tenure in Foxborough. He officially left New England in 2024. He would become head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heels less than a year later.