The Dallas Cowboys were too little, too late with their coaching decision and, with that, apparently cost themselves who would have been a leading candidate. Per Jordan Schultz at FOX Sports, Bill Belichick and the Cowboys would have had mutual interest in him coming to coach there with America’s Team.

On Wednesday, one day after the Raiders parted ways with Antonio Pierce following his first full season as the team’s head coach, NFL.com reported Tom Brady — now a minority owner of the Las Vegas franchise — had spoken “recently” with Belichick “about what it would take to make a reunion happen.”

A day after a wild report emerged connecting newly-appointed University of North Carolina football coach Bill Belichick with a potential shock move back to the NFL ranks, one of his top confidants categorically dismissed it.