It didn’t look like it the last time Bill Belichick sat down in front of a camera, but the mastermind behind six Super Bowl titles is still playing chess—just not where you’d expect. These days, it’s not on a football field or in a draft room. It’s in front of the media, navigating a new kind of defensive scheme—his relationship with 24-year-old Jordon Hudson. The former Patriots coach and now head man at UNC has gone from drawing up coverage schemes to dodging questions about his personal life.
That CBS interview was meant to promote his new book, which instead turned into a power-play moment. Hudson—reportedly seated just off camera—cut in and firmly shut down a question about how they met. “We’re not talking about this.” So much for the Patriot Way. That moment, awkward and unfiltered, triggered the loudest round of laughs—and jabs—yet from the media circus trailing Belichick’s post-NFL chapter.
FOX News host Jimmy Failla took the baton and ran with it on-air, torching the situation with one of the wildest locker room analogies yet. “What does it say about her that Bill Belichick could manage Aaron Hernandez in the locker room, a murd–er, but not her?” Failla said, letting that bombshell hang in the air before piling on. “Look, Bill’s the first guy who ever robbed the cradle and came back with an overbearing stepmother. I don’t know how this works.”
The segment quickly turned into a roast. Failla kept swinging, leaning into the generational divide and mocking how Bill Belichick—at 73—may not even be fully aware of what’s happening. “This is a 73-year-old man who says ‘the Facebook.’ You know what I mean? Do you think he’s willingly doing this?” Failla asked. His co-host didn’t miss a beat, throwing in, “Absolutely not, absolutely not. She has to absolutely have something over him. She’s holding something over him. There’s no way any self-respecting man is doing that. I can’t get you to take, like, a sit-down family photo, let alone a picture of me as a mermaid on the beach. That’s insane.”
So crazy to think Bill Belichick had an easier time managing Aaron Hernandez in the locker room than Jordon Hudson: pic.twitter.com/Rmuk5chZbX
— Jimmy Failla (@jimmyfailla) May 13, 2025
And yes, it really has gotten that absurd. From tabloid snapshots to Hudson reportedly calling the shots during media appearances, the couple’s age-gap relationship has become its own subplot in Belichick’s unexpected career detour to Chapel Hill. His next media appearance, though, might offer a slightly softer landing.
ABC has lined up former Giants star and Super Bowl champion Michael Strahan to conduct the next big interview. A familiar face, Strahan may provide more empathy than interrogation—but the questions won’t get any easier.
Bill Belichick, for his part, is doing his best to compartmentalize. Appearing on ESPN, he tried to quiet the noise, saying, “It’s off to the side, a personal relationship. She doesn’t have anything to do with UNC football.” But here’s the problem—optics rarely care about intent. Hudson has been spotted multiple times on the field at UNC, and her growing involvement raises more than just eyebrows. It raises questions about boundaries, power dynamics, and whether Belichick, once the stern gatekeeper of the NFL’s most secretive dynasty, is now operating under someone else’s whistle.
The curious case of Bill Belichick and his 24YO GF
Bill Belichick’s poker face may be legendary, but even he couldn’t mask the awkwardness when Jordon Hudson made an unexpected appearance during his CBS Sunday Morning interview in April 2025. The internet immediately lit up with one burning question: How exactly did these two meet?
Well, Hudson later seemed to confirm what had been reported—she met Belichick during a flight while chatting about her college coursework. On paper, that sounds harmless enough, but something about her vibe during the interview had people feeling like there was a lot more to the story.
Adding fuel to the fire, Hudson—who just snagged third place in the Miss Maine pageant—posted on social media confirming the timeline of their relationship. “February 11th, 2025 February 11th, 2021. Happy Meetiversary @billbelichick — Cheers to the fact that you still let me give you lengthy philosophical lectures four years later,” she wrote. In the post, she even flashed a clip of her copy of Warren Goldfarb’s Deductive Logic—signed by the Hooded One himself. “Jordon, thanks for giving me a course on logic! Safe travels!” he penned.
However, Jordon becoming a regular around UNC football is definitely getting people talking. It’s gotten so noisy that UNC is even hiring a PR person to handle how things look. First, it was just a quick appearance with Ben Affleck and Belichick in that Dunkin’ ad, but now Belichick is reportedly asking UNC staff to include her on emails.
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