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NFL insider: Bill Belichick ‘would have been interested’ in Dallas Cowboys head coaching job

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The Dallas Cowboys were too little, too late with their coaching decision and, with that, apparently cost themselves who would have been a leading candidate.

Per Jordan Schultz at FOX Sports, Bill Belichick and the Cowboys would have had mutual interest in him coming to coach there with America’s Team. Instead, with no indication that Mike McCarthy would be moving on from the franchise, he looked elsewhere and, since then, became the head coach at North Carolina.

“FWIW: Bill Belichick would have been interested in the Cowboys’ job, and it’s believed that Dallas would have been interested in him, had he known the position would become available. Belichick and his camp never received any indication during backchannel conversations that the job would open up, which is partly why he ended up at UNC,” Schultz tweeted on Monday. “Belichick has an excellent relationship with the Jones family.”

This comes after McCarthy and the Cowboys did not agree on a new deal with him becoming a free agent as of this morning.

Dallas will now be considering several of the other names that are already in this coaching cycle in the NFL.

That’s instead of being able to hire one of the league’s all-time coaches in Belichick. Belichick had been available for a year or so since the end of his tenure with the New England Patriots. However, with no evident interest in him, he chose to take his career to college football with him becoming the Tar Heels’ coach in Chapel Hill. He’s now been at UNC for a month now in preparation for next fall.

There’d been reports as recently as last week that Belichick could change his mind about North Carolina with all the jobs that are currently available in the NFL. Other reporting has since discredited those, though, with GM Michael Lombardi describing them as false.

With that connection to the league and to Dallas, it’ll be interesting to see if this opening could cause any changes for him. Still, as of now, the Cowboys look to have completely missed out on the chance to hire Belichick as their next head coach considering how this went.