Bill Belichick's future headlines uncertain coaching situations - ESPN

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick and team owner Robert Kraft are expected to meet soon to discuss their futures. Although many around the league expect that a change will come in New England, the sides apparently have not yet talked about a split at any point this season, sources told ESPN.

Belichick's future in New England is one of several unresolved coaching situations that teams face as they enter the final week of the regular season:

• NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS: It's not what Kraft has said throughout the course of the season. It's what he hasn't said.

Kraft hasn't publicly declared that Belichick is his coach moving forward and that he will return next season — nothing like it. Everyone around the NFL is waiting for a divorce to happen, but neither Kraft nor Belichick has acknowledged that the relationship could be broken off.

It feels like the end of an era to many around the league — that Belichick could be coaching his final game for the Patriots in Sunday's home game against the New York Jets.

What a run it has been for Kraft, Belichick and the Patriots organization as a whole — historic, legendary, incredible. Multiple signs point to this being the end for the six-time Super Bowl-winning coach, but there has been nothing from either side.

It is uncertain how this will play out and when a decision will be official, but few expect Belichick to be fired. He has accomplished too much to be met with a fate like that, and there are more questions about how and when Kraft and Belichick would part ways if that is in fact what they decide to do.

Former Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen said, «I wanted my team back,» when he fired longtime coach Dan Reeves after the 1992 season. Many people around the league say Kraft