Tom Brady Gets Last Laugh After Bill Belichick’s Disappointing UNC Debut

After Brady departed for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2020, Belichick had just one winning season in his next four years before he and the Patriots reportedly mutually agreed to part ways.

The North Carolina Tar Heels named Belichick their head coach at the end of 2024 after he took a year off from coaching.

This seemed like his one final chance to prove that his success is not dependent on the greatest quarterback of all time.

But following a disastrous season opener that saw the Tar Heels get annihilated by the TCU Horned Frogs, that doesn’t seem likely.

Fans wasted no time making jokes about Belichick switching quarterbacks at halftime, creating fake pictures of Brady and slightly altering his name.

UNC starting quarterback Gio Lopez had a rough showing, where he was wildly inaccurate and made some head-scratching decisions. This is also a jab from fans that the legendary head coach needs Brady to win.

The seven-time Super Bowl champion managed to win a ring in his first season with the Buccaneers, so with Belichick’s season already looking doomed, mostly everyone is drawing the same conclusions.

This user likened Belichick to a grocery store worker if he never stumbled upon Brady in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft.

It’s important to note that Belichick also had a stint as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns in the 1990s, where he went just 36-44 in five seasons and posted just one winning record.

After nearly a decade of coaching experience without Brady on his resume, the future Hall-of-Fame coach is proving to the world that his legacy does not stand on its own.

There is still plenty of time for his Tar Heels to turn it around, but the first game of the season gave no cause for optimism.

If the season continues on this trajectory, then there is a great chance Belichick is one and done with UNC and tarnishes his reputation forever.