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Message: [QUOTE="Alsacs, post: 858574, member: 652"] [COLOR=#000000] Jets and Patriots have done it to each other. However, these are the only times I can think of active head coaches leaving one team for another team. I doubt Marrone's contract will allow him to be considered for the NYG job unless he is fired.[/COLOR] [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jets%E2%80%93Patriots_rivalry#Early_1997:_Bill_Parcells'][COLOR=#000000]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jets%E2%80%93Patriots_rivalry#Early_1997:_Bill_Parcells[/COLOR][/URL] [COLOR=#000000] In 1997, After the Super Bowl, Bill Parcells resigned from the Patriots, prompting Bob Kraft to believe the Jets had been tampering with Parcells in an attempt for him to resign and take the Jets' vacant head coaching position and have say in the Jets' first overall selection in the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_NFL_Draft']1997 NFL Draft[/URL]. The Jets decided that since Parcells couldn't be their head coach in 1997 because of his contract renegotiation, they would hire Parcells as a consultant and hav[COLOR=#ff0000]e [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Belichick']Bill Belichick[/URL], wh[/COLOR]o followed Parcells from the Patriots, hold the title of head coach. Kraft, who was requesting a first-round pick in return for allowing Parcells to coach elsewhere, called the Jets' agreement "a transparent farce" that "demonstrated it was the Jets' intention all along for Bill Parcells to become head coach of the Jets for the '97 season."Despite Parcells claiming the Jets had been given league permission for the consulting agreement, the NFL denied any permission was given, instead having commissioner [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tagliabue']Paul Tagliabue[/URL] arrange an agreement between the two sides. The Patriots received third and fourth-round picks in the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_NFL_Draft']1997 NFL Draft[/URL], a second-round pick in the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_NFL_Draft']1998 NFL Draft[/URL], and a first-round pick in the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_NFL_Draft']1999 NFL Draft[/URL] in compensation for allowing Parcells to become the Jets' head coach.[/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][SIZE=4][B]Early 2000: Bill Belichick[/B][/SIZE] A day after the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_New_York_Jets_season']1999[/URL] season, Parcells resigned as head coach of the Jets and made his second retirement from NFL coaching.Belichick, who had been assistant head coach of the Jets, became the Jets' next head coach. The following day, at a press conference for his hiring, Belichick wrote a resignation note on a napkin ("I resign as HC of the NYJ."[URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jets%E2%80%93Patriots_rivalry#cite_note-14'][14][/URL]), and proceeded to instead announce his resignation in front of the press. Despite rumors that he had been offered the Patriots' vacant head coaching position, Belichick cited the Jets' uncertain ownership situation following the death of owner [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Hess']Leon Hess[/URL] earlier that year as the reason for his resignation. The Jets denied Belichick permission to speak with other teams, and as had happened in 1997 with Parcells, the NFL upheld Belichick's contractual obligations to the Jets. Belichick then filed an [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competition_law']antitrust[/URL] lawsuit against the NFL in federal court. After Parcells and Kraft, talking for the first time since Parcells' resignation from the Patriots, agreed to settle their differences, the Patriots and Jets agreed to a compensation package to allow Belichick to become the Patriots' head coach.With the deal, the Patriots sent their first-round pick in the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_NFL_Draft']2000 NFL Draft[/URL] and fourth and seventh-round picks in the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_NFL_Draft']2001 NFL Draft[/URL] to the Jets, while also receiving the Jets' fifth-round selection in 2001 and seventh-round pick in the [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_NFL_Draft']2002 NFL Draft[/URL]. [/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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