Named head coach of the Jets for 2000 following Superbowl XXXIV, but
was angry because
Bill Parcells was moving to the team's front office and
would in effect be his puppet master; in a news conference a few days
after, he was named coach, he announced his immediate resignation from
the job; this brought out a lengthy tirade against Belichick from
general manager Steve Gutman. In a costly trade, the New England
Patriots traded numerous draft picks to the Jets to get Belichick as
head coach. Years later, after winning two Superbowls with the
Patriots, Belichick got back at Gutman in a magazine interview - "In
all my years of football I've never known a man who talked more and won
less than Steve Gutman".