Invoice Belichick by no means needed to be involved about tanking with the Patriots, and he’d prefer to see the NFL make a easy rule change to make sure fewer groups are tempted to take action.
How the NFL determines its draft order has grow to be a scorching matter after the Giants’ win over the Colts on Sunday contributed to them falling all the way in which from the No. 1 spot to fourth — and out of a transparent path to choose quarterback Shedeur Sanders, quarterback Cam Ward and two-way star Travis Hunter within the 2025 NFL Draft.
At the same time as Belichick’s former group holds the No. 1 choice, the six-time Tremendous Bowl-winning head coach believes in a draft lottery system as a substitute of figuring out the order by document and the power of schedule for the tiebreaker as it’s now.
“I was never involved in [tanking] but I don’t know what happens somewhere else,” Belichick mentioned throughout his weekly look on “The Pat McAfee Show” on Monday. “It’s different than the NBA. The NBA kind of rectified that by having a lottery. So even if you’re the worst team, you’re not guaranteed the first pick. In the NFL, that’s not quite the case. If you are the worst team, you do get the first pick.”
The freshly minted North Carolina soccer coach believes it wouldn’t be a “bad idea for the competitiveness of the sport” to undertake a lottery system just like the NBA within the NFL.
“Then we wouldn’t be having this conversation — well we might be having it, but there’d be other circumstances besides just your record,” Belichick mentioned “There’d be actually a lottery part of it. But that’s not a decision for me to make, that’s just a suggestion.”
The Giants’ win Sunday shook up the draft order with the Patriots now first, the Titans second and the Browns third with all 4 groups at 3-13.
Huge Blue may drop even additional down in the event that they beat the Eagles on Sunday, precisely what Belichick is trying to take off the desk with a draft lottery.
