Bill Belichick will have a busy schedule in his new role as a TV analyst, as Peyton Manning revealed that the legendary coach will be on every ‘Manningcast’ this coming season.
Belichick, who parted ways with the Patriots in January, previously revealed he would have a weekly guest spot on The Pat McAfee Show.
And the former Patriots coach has expanded his roster with ESPN, as Peyton Manning revealed Friday.
“Bill will be a regular on every ManningCast show early in the game, probably the first quarter,” Peyton said Friday on the Pat McAfee Show.
The former Colts and Broncos quarterback added that Belichick’s role would be to “take people behind the ropes on what this defense needs to do or what the challenges are at quarterback.”
Bill Belichick, seen in January, will contribute to every ‘Manningcast’ this NFL season
Peyton Manning revealed the news Friday on the Pat McAfee Show on ESPN
During the McAfee Show’s NFL Draft coverage, which Belichick contributed to, both sides revealed that Belichick would be a regular this upcoming season.
“You are a legend as a coach, a legend as a general manager and I think whatever you choose forever, if you stay in television, which we would all be very fortunate to have, you will crush it. When you get back to coaching and GMing, we’ll all be excited to watch it… all we know is that tonight was great. Thank you,” McAfee told the coach at the end of the show.
Belichick then asked the former Colts punter, “Any chance I can be at your show in the fall?”
McAfee replied, “Yeah, like Monday?” to which Belichick confirmed by saying, “Yeah, something like that….”
Belichick was part of ESPN’s simulcast of the 2024 Draft on ‘The Pat McAfee Show’ last month
The “Manningcast,” meanwhile, has received critical acclaim for its A-list guests (Tom Brady, LeBron James and Will Ferrell, to name a few) and the Manning brothers’ balance of jokes and hard-hitting analysis.
Peyton certainly had that in mind when he talked about adding Belichick to the show.
“It was an easy pitch for Bill. I said, ‘Bill, we want you to come. Look, we’d like to look behind the ropes on the defensive end and find out what the Eagles are going to have to do to stop Patrick Mahomes, right?”
“And if you ever run out of things to say, just make fun of Eli, right? That’s always some kind of time filler. And Bill doesn’t like Eli (who defeated Belichick in two Super Bowls). We all know that – two Super Bowls – so it’s just a match made in Heaven.”
Belichick recently appeared on Netflix along with a slew of other ex-patriots for Tom Brady’s Roast.
At one point during the show, Belichick took a shot at New England owner Robert Kraft, who decided to leave the coach after 24 years in the offseason.
Former Patriots receiver Julian Edelman said on his “Names with Games” podcast, “The tension in that room… could cut damn glass.”