Cowboys Not Hiring Belichick? Why That’s ‘Crazy!’ To ESPN’s Schefter

Dallas Cowboys Not Hiring Bill Belichick?Why That’s ‘Crazy!’ To ESPN’s Adam Schefter

FRISCO -The Dallas Cowboys were going to chase after Bill Belichick, reported ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

But they didn’t.

That is “crazy,” says ESPN’s Adam Schefter, who is among the national media people who are using words like “crazy” in place of simply saying, “my reporting was wrong.”

The legendary Patriots head coach, now available to all suitors, presently has collected … one suitor. And Schefter claims he cannot for the life of him figure out why.

“The Falcons are the only team so far that has engaged in heavy conversations with Bill Belichick ...That's crazy to me but right now that's the reality," Schefter said.

There are some aspects to this that aren't "crazy'' at all, including the fact that  Belichick is 71, might want to serve as his own de facto GM (as he did in New England) and hasn't been in charge of a good football team in almost half-a-decade.

If you look at it that way, Belichick not being a "hot candidate'' isn't "crazy.'' It's quite understandable.

But there is something else that is obviously fueling Schefter's "surprise'' here: Schefter is the one who has been hinting, insinuating, reporting for weeks that the Dallas Cowboys and Belichick would end up together.

And he was wrong. Wrong at every single turn, every single hint, every single insinuation and every single report.

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And now that Cowboys boss Jerry Jones has opted to retain coach Mike McCarthy - which was always his intention, as CowboysSI.com has reported for the same number of weeks as Schefter was reporting otherwise - Belichick has egg on his face. And some of the yolk has splashed onto Schefter's face, too, because he's the "insider'' who told the world Belichick and Jones were "mysteriously'' plotting to hook up.

It's not "crazy'' that Belichick isn't working at The Star. What's "crazy'' is that rather than take responsibility for a wrongheaded series of reports, ESPN's lead guy is still pretending that he was right - but that "crazy'' got in the way.