Bill Belichick didn’t go scorched earth, but he did slip in a little bit of shade.

While appearing on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Monday afternoon, Belichick was asked his thoughts after the New England Patriots fired head coach Jerod Mayo. Belichick, who frequently took shots at Mayo’s Patriots during the 2024 campaign, might not have been celebrating the first-year flameout, but there was still something there.

“The Patriots situation, honestly, I don’t have too much of a comment on that,” Belichick told McAfee. “Robert Kraft, Jonathan Kraft, Robyn Glaser, they’re the decision-makers there. Who exactly does what and so forth? Mayo was hand-picked by Robert, but in the end the decision-making is something that they’d have to comment on and identify. They’re the ones that are really making the calls there and so they’re the ones that should comment on that, I really don’t know from the outside looking in.”

Belichick added with a smirk: “They haven’t called me and asked so I really don’t know.”

Belichick followed up and discussed the importance of consistency within a coaching staff, referencing his own in Foxboro, Mass.

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“So you see situations like that, and when everybody’s aligned and pulling together, you might not win the championship every year, which we didn’t,” Belichick said. “But you’re in it every year, and you have a strong team, and you can continue to build. 

” … So to me, if you have this shared vision all the way through the organization, which we had for 20 years in New England, then you have a chance to be competitive and be successful,” Belichick said.

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The Patriots will have their third head coach in three seasons when they kick off the 2025 campaign.

The legendary Patriots head coach was fired in January last year after winning six Super Bowls in two-plus decades. Belichick was immediately replaced by Mayo, who Kraft named the heir apparent to Belichick during his final seasons in Foxboro, Mass. It didn’t sit well with Belichick, according to reports.

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Belichick took over the North Carolina Tar Heels football program last month, but it’s fair to assume Mayo won’t be serving as a defensive assistant in Chapel Hill.

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