Bill Belichick reportedly shopping post-Patriots project that may disappoint

Ian Mohr of Page Six reported on Tuesday night that former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick is "shopping a book" after failing to land a job with a different organization this winter. 

Diehard football fans may be disappointed by Belichick's first known post-Patriots project. 

According to Mohr, Belichick's book is "more of the business variety" and thus won't offer behind-the-scenes looks at the 71-year-old's relationships with individuals such as legendary quarterback Tom Brady and Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Kraft essentially showed Belichick the door in January after the Patriots missed the playoffs for a third time in four years.

"It’s the big business imprints that are the ones meeting and bidding on it," a source told Mohr about the book.

Belichick supporters can't be blamed for wanting to know what the six-time Super Bowl champion head coach has to say about his 24-season tenure with the Patriots now that all episodes of the "The Dynasty" docuseries have been released. Ben Axelrod of Awful Announcing noted earlier this month that well-known Boston sports personality Bill Simmons called the Apple TV+ program "so anti-Belichick and so pro-Kraft that it’s hard for me to wrap my head around." Per Keagan Stiefel of NESN, Patriots legend Devin McCourty recently said he felt "duped" regarding his participation in the documentary that "only hit anything that was negative."

Among the many things said about Belichick during "The Dynasty," the show leaves little doubt that the coach's alleged treatment of Brady was why the future Hall of Famer left the Patriots as a free agent following the 2019 NFL season. 

Belichick may have multiple non-personal reasons for not wishing to use a book to respond to certain portions of "The Dynasty" at this time. It's believed he could spend at least part of the upcoming fall working as an analyst for one of the NFL's media partners or for Peyton Manning's Omaha Productions. It was also reported in February that "multiple [NFL team] owners reached out to Belichick about next year’s hiring cycle" shortly after Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank went in a different direction for his latest head-coaching hire. 

As much as members of the football community may want Belichick to share never-before-heard stories about what became the NFL's first dynasty of the 2000s, he seemingly is saving such tales for himself until further notice.