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Belichick would look like a “clown” coaching this team

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“If you put a king in the circus, the circus doesn’t look like a palace. The king looks like a clown.”

Bill Belichick could be in the running for several top coaching jobs next offseason. Matthew J. Lee / The Boston Globe

Could Bill Belichick be a viable coaching candidate for the Dallas Cowboys next season?

Dallas has gotten off to a rough start this year and enters Thursday's primetime game against the Giants with a record of 1-2.

And with head coach Mike McCarthy already in the final year of his contract, it's becoming apparent that if Dallas continues to underperform, owner Jerry Jones will try to come through with a new hire.

Belichick would be a real eye-catcher for a team like Dallas, which already has plenty of talent with stars like Dak Prescott, Micah Parsons and CeeDee Lamb.

But former NFL wide receiver and current ESPN analyst Andrew Hawkins believes Belichick should stay away from Dallas – due in large part to Jones' influence and tendency to interfere in football operations.

“If you put a king in the circus, the circus doesn’t look like a palace. “The king looks like a clown,” Hawkins said Wednesday on ESPN’s “Get Up.” “The culture in Dallas is not conducive to getting the best out of Bill Belichick or this organization.

“He (Jones) wants to run the show. He wants to be the one who selects the players. He wants to go to the media and say whatever he wants because it's his team and none of it works for Bill Belichick. When he (Belichick) ran the organization — from top to bottom — no one talked.”

While Belichick was inducted into the Hall of Fame for his work on the sidelines, he also served as New England's de facto general manager for most of his 24 seasons in Foxborough.

Jones has not only been the owner and president of the Cowboys since 1989, but also their general manager – and over the years has led personnel decisions involving both the Dallas coaching staff and roster.

According to Yahoo Sports, Belichick's failed attempt to take over as head coach of the Atlanta Falcons earlier this year was due to Belichick and the franchise being at a “crossroads” over how much power he would have within the Falcons' organization.

“While Blank and Belichick apparently never discussed a detailed plan for how a linear chain of command would work under the head coach, meetings with Blank, according to the source, made clear Belichick's continued belief that the full scope of football operations, personnel and coaching would be under “Control should be his decision-making umbrella,” wrote Yahoo’s Charles Robinson.

A few years in Dallas could be Belichick's best chance to overtake Don Shula and achieve the most wins as a head coach in NFL history. However, it remains to be seen whether both Belichick and Jones would be willing to make concessions in Dallas' power structure to form a partnership.

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