Bill Belichick's life has gone through an enormous amount of change over the last few years. He went from building one of the most successful dynasties in NFL history with the New England Patriots to now coaching at the college level at the University of North Carolina.
Of course, that's not all. Perhaps the most prominent feature in Belichick's life lately has been his romantic relationship turned professional with Jordon Hudson and the infamous CBS interview that won’t seem to go away.
Well, maybe it would go away if Belichick and Hudson stopped talking about it so much — or at least that’s what Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio suggested.
TMZ released an article on Thursday citing “sources familiar with the situation” that Simon & Schuster’s senior director of publicity, David Kass, reportedly misled Belichick about the interview.
“I can assure you that the conversation [will be] about the book,” Kass reportedly told Belichick. “This is a book segment that looks at your life in football and what people can learn from you to achieve success in their own lives.”
But that didn’t happen. Interviewer Tony Dokoupil asked at least six questions that had nothing to do with Belichick’s book, The Art of Winning: Lessons from My Life in Football.
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“The story is smeared with Belichick’s (or Hudson’s) fingerprints,” Florio wrote. “Which means that one or both decided to dredge up a dead story, weeks after the fact. Which also means that one or both believed the new TMZ.com story would cause people to say, ‘Well, now we understand why she weirdly refused to let him answer the basic question of how they met.’”
Florio continued by saying this was also an attempt to throw Kass under the bus, further removing either Belichick or Hudson from any blame over how the CBS interview went off the rails. He also said this was simply another unnecessary move to put the story back in headlines after Belichick had already done damage control to settle things down.
“Make no mistake about it,” Florio added. “The issue is back on the front burner because Belichick and/or Hudson decided it would be a smart move to point a finger at Kass, weeks after the fact. And it’s just the latest time Belichick and/or Hudson have blamed others for their own blunders.”
Finally, Florio said that in the end, what Belichick and Hudson have done the entire time is point fingers elsewhere, avoiding responsibility for their own actions while playing the role of victims.
“It’s always someone else’s fault,” Florio said. “It’s never their fault. And they presumably think people will buy the idea that they’re the victims of widespread incompetence and malfeasance.”
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