May 7, 2025 • 7 mins
"Have you ever wondered how a legendary coach like Bill Belichick could end up in a PR nightmare?" This intriguing question sets the stage for a captivating episode of The Ben and Skin Show. Join hosts Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray as they delve into the unexpected and dramatic fallout from Belichick's recent CBS News appearance.In this episode, the team explores the seven steps recommended by crisis PR experts to help Belichick navigate his predicament. From the advice to "stick to football" to the suggestion to "cancel the book tour interviews," the hosts provide a thorough and entertaining analysis of each recommendation. Notable quotes like "He blew it, now he's stuck" and "This is not just sports. This is sports, entertainment, and lifestyle news, plus social media, all combined" will keep you engaged.The episode is filled with memorable moments, including Skin's humorous take on Belichick's relationship with his 24-year-old girlfriend, Jordan Hudson, and KT's quick-witted comments about the Miss Maine USA pageant. The hosts also discuss the broader implications of Belichick's crisis, from his coaching legacy to the impact on his personal life.But the excitement doesn't end there. The episode wraps up with a teaser about Lewis Hamilton's appearance at the Met Gala, adding a layer of intrigue and anticipation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Give me that news quickie.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right, Yesterday I was enamored with this article I'd
seen on Front Office Sports where it was about the
Bill Belichick appearance on CBS News and they deemed it
a crisis, and so they wrote an article and they
had seven steps after talking to seven different PR crisis
(00:28):
PR experts, and I was just so amused by it.
The thing I was so amused by it was that
Ted Johnson was weighing in loudly and said that he
was no longer fit to coach at UNC.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Think about that. The man did an.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Interview to promote a book and the end result was
that one of his former players said he is no
longer fit to coach football.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And Ted Johnson was one of a parcels guy. So yeah, okay,
that's fair, but still a hot take. It's a hot take,
so fit for it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And so if you don't know, I mean, we've talked
about this a lot, but let's not assume Bill Belichick
the winningest coach in football history, certainly by number of
Super Bowls won, and he's up there with victories. I
don't think he ever caught Don Shula, but he certainly
had the most super Bowl wins is dating a twenty
four year old woman named Jordan Hudson. He is forty
(01:22):
nine years older than her. Oh, he's seventy three. So
here are the things that the crisis pr experts said,
and we'll jump in here and kick this around. Number one,
stick to football.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
This is shut up and dribble. This is shut up
and dribble. Here's a comment from Ari Fleischer, the former
White House Press secretary, to George bush Boy. He had
some stuff he had, he tells Front Off of Sports.
He blew it, and now he's stuck. If he had
prepared for an obvious question with a halfway decent answer,
(02:02):
this would be a non issue. Fleischer has consulted the NFL,
Major League Baseball, NBA, US Olympic and Paralympic Committee. He
goes on to say all he can do now is
say ask me football questions. My private life is private,
and I hope that this is going to fade away.
And honestly, he's in this predicament because a twenty four
(02:25):
year old cheerleader is handling everything for him.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And the other thing, too, though, is think about this
if the way out of it for him is to
stick to answering football questions.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
He didn't do that when he was an NFL coach.
You know what he is promoting a football book though,
yes it is. He was doing a football interview with
a hole in his shirt. Yeah, no, one mention that.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
God that that was one of the worst parts is
what he was wearing. Even if she wasn't there and
didn't interrupt and be like, where are you wearing? Man?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That's okay, this should be PR note number one. Yeah,
this is kind of amazing. Though a twenty four year
old smoke show who has that much influence over him
can't get him to change his shirt. However, beautiful that
to me has hoped that he's still in charge, right
or she's just like, that's your brand, Just keep doing you,
you know, I just I see I've seen people in crisis.
(03:17):
This is why people need to hire a PR crisis firm.
You see people fumble and screw up these situations, and
you're like, okay, well, let's look at who's in charge.
Oh it's someone with absolutely no experience. Yeah, no, wonder right,
these things require experience, and right now she not only
is he her hostage, but she's.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Running the show. With no experience.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
She's also the in the Miss Maine USA pageant. Yeah,
that's a huge field. I think there's like three hundred
people that live in Maine, but the first ever trans
contestant in the Miss Maine USA pageant.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
And you said that infuriates you, Kevin Wyse say that
you just said they didn't want it, You didn't want
them competing in sports.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
No, I just think I that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
By the way, the capital of Maine, the capital of Maine,
has a smaller population than Alan, where I live.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Augusta, the Portland, Portland's the capital of Maine. It is
I think Augusta is bro.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, then maybe Portland's the biggest city in Maine. I
would have said, banger, it's not okay, Go ahead, what's
number two? Cancel the book tour interviews, says unless he's
being interviewed by his own literary PR team, he should
not do any more interviews.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Right, Everyone who reads the book says it's not that
good either.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I can't imagine it's good. He's not putting his secrets
out there.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, they said the number one thing he could do
is shut down the entire PR operation.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
To burn it down.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Try again.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Number three, He needs to realize his predicament. It says
they're kidding themselves, him and Hudson if they think the
story's going to blow over. Instead, it's becoming a feeding
frenzy for virtually every media outlet, and they're all licking
their child to kill him.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, here's the quote. This is not just sports.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
This is sports, entertainment and lifestyle news plus social media
all combined. It's a huge difference between somebody following the Patriots,
for example. Man, we saw where this was headed, where
we saw the footage of her at practice with him.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
He's out there just doing his thing, coaching.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Football, and you would think everything is normal, and then
a twenty something year old cheerleader went out there, reached
in his pocket, grabbed his keys, and she was dressed
like she was, I don't know, going to the met gala.
And she walks outside and or walks back to the people.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I talked to him. I've got it covered. It was
like clearly she was trying to run everything.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, by the way, I got a quick met gala side.
Describe Lewis Hamilton to me.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Oh, Lewis Hamilton, Okay, So he's an F one driver
who had a really long stretch of constantly winning. What
does he look like Mercedes kind of Lenny Kravitz ish.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I say, did you see him at the met Gala?
I did not watch any second of them.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That we had the news on last night. This was
this was a really funny moment by my wife. They flat,
They go, I thought Lewis Hamilton looked amazing and it
is awesome. They flashed him up there and I go, wait, now,
who's that guy? And my wife goes, I think he
was in that musical to Hamilton. I go, because his
last name is Hamilton. You think he was in a
(06:20):
musical about Hamilton. No, I go, I think he's an
F one driver, But I need to ask Christine.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yes, and he's with Ferrari now. And he was really
funny over the radio this past weekend. By the way,
y'all watching, all right, we'll book him.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I'm gonna there's several more, but I want to do
this last one because it ties into Ben replace Hudson
as his manager publicist. It says there's precedent for this
in two thousand and five, when Tom Cruise fired his
sister Leanne de Vett as his publicist. It says Belichick
can learn from that, but it's nepotism. It's somebody who's
(06:55):
not qualified. You get on and you're gonna put your
crew on. Hey man, I got jobs for everybody. I'm
gonna bring everybody up. But then you've got people in
jobs that are not qualified to do and you get
into a crisis and you realize, oh my god, we
need someone with experience.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Tom's sister is not the woman for that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And this is the time when Tom's jumping up and
down on a couch while everyone's going with's scientology doing
to him.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Crisis.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Let me just say they say that her that says
that she can go back to focusing on her luxury
real estate empire that is valued at eight million dollars, right,
and it's all And hasn't it increased in the time.
Didn't we talk about that that they've been dating. Oh yeah, yeah,
skyrocketed now yeah, so why don't she just go do that? Anyways,
(07:38):
there you go. That is a crisis PR team weighing
in on Bill Belichick.
Give me that news quickie.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right, Yesterday I was enamored with this article I'd
seen on Front Office Sports where it was about the
Bill Belichick appearance on CBS News and they deemed it
a crisis, and so they wrote an article and they
had seven steps after talking to seven different PR crisis
(00:28):
PR experts, and I was just so amused by it.
The thing I was so amused by it was that
Ted Johnson was weighing in loudly and said that he
was no longer fit to coach at UNC.
Speaker 1 (00:40):
Think about that. The man did an.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Interview to promote a book and the end result was
that one of his former players said he is no
longer fit to coach football.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
And Ted Johnson was one of a parcels guy. So yeah, okay,
that's fair, but still a hot take. It's a hot take,
so fit for it.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
And so if you don't know, I mean, we've talked
about this a lot, but let's not assume Bill Belichick
the winningest coach in football history, certainly by number of
Super Bowls won, and he's up there with victories. I
don't think he ever caught Don Shula, but he certainly
had the most super Bowl wins is dating a twenty
four year old woman named Jordan Hudson. He is forty
(01:22):
nine years older than her. Oh, he's seventy three. So
here are the things that the crisis pr experts said,
and we'll jump in here and kick this around. Number one,
stick to football.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
I agree.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
This is shut up and dribble. This is shut up
and dribble. Here's a comment from Ari Fleischer, the former
White House Press secretary, to George bush Boy. He had
some stuff he had, he tells Front Off of Sports.
He blew it, and now he's stuck. If he had
prepared for an obvious question with a halfway decent answer,
(02:02):
this would be a non issue. Fleischer has consulted the NFL,
Major League Baseball, NBA, US Olympic and Paralympic Committee. He
goes on to say all he can do now is
say ask me football questions. My private life is private,
and I hope that this is going to fade away.
And honestly, he's in this predicament because a twenty four
(02:25):
year old cheerleader is handling everything for him.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
It's true.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And the other thing, too, though, is think about this
if the way out of it for him is to
stick to answering football questions.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
He didn't do that when he was an NFL coach.
You know what he is promoting a football book though,
yes it is. He was doing a football interview with
a hole in his shirt. Yeah, no, one mention that.
Speaker 4 (02:48):
God that that was one of the worst parts is
what he was wearing. Even if she wasn't there and
didn't interrupt and be like, where are you wearing? Man?
Speaker 2 (02:54):
That's okay, this should be PR note number one. Yeah,
this is kind of amazing. Though a twenty four year
old smoke show who has that much influence over him
can't get him to change his shirt. However, beautiful that
to me has hoped that he's still in charge, right
or she's just like, that's your brand, Just keep doing you,
you know, I just I see I've seen people in crisis.
(03:17):
This is why people need to hire a PR crisis firm.
You see people fumble and screw up these situations, and
you're like, okay, well, let's look at who's in charge.
Oh it's someone with absolutely no experience. Yeah, no, wonder right,
these things require experience, and right now she not only
is he her hostage, but she's.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
Running the show. With no experience.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
She's also the in the Miss Maine USA pageant. Yeah,
that's a huge field. I think there's like three hundred
people that live in Maine, but the first ever trans
contestant in the Miss Maine USA pageant.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
And you said that infuriates you, Kevin Wyse say that
you just said they didn't want it, You didn't want
them competing in sports.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
No, I just think I that's a problem.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
By the way, the capital of Maine, the capital of Maine,
has a smaller population than Alan, where I live.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
Augusta, the Portland, Portland's the capital of Maine. It is
I think Augusta is bro.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
Is that right?
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Okay, then maybe Portland's the biggest city in Maine. I
would have said, banger, it's not okay, Go ahead, what's
number two? Cancel the book tour interviews, says unless he's
being interviewed by his own literary PR team, he should
not do any more interviews.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Right, Everyone who reads the book says it's not that
good either.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I can't imagine it's good. He's not putting his secrets
out there.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Yeah, they said the number one thing he could do
is shut down the entire PR operation.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
To burn it down.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Try again.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Number three, He needs to realize his predicament. It says
they're kidding themselves, him and Hudson if they think the
story's going to blow over. Instead, it's becoming a feeding
frenzy for virtually every media outlet, and they're all licking
their child to kill him.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, here's the quote. This is not just sports.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
This is sports, entertainment and lifestyle news plus social media
all combined. It's a huge difference between somebody following the Patriots,
for example. Man, we saw where this was headed, where
we saw the footage of her at practice with him.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
He's out there just doing his thing, coaching.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Football, and you would think everything is normal, and then
a twenty something year old cheerleader went out there, reached
in his pocket, grabbed his keys, and she was dressed
like she was, I don't know, going to the met gala.
And she walks outside and or walks back to the people.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
I talked to him. I've got it covered. It was
like clearly she was trying to run everything.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, by the way, I got a quick met gala side.
Describe Lewis Hamilton to me.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
Oh, Lewis Hamilton, Okay, So he's an F one driver
who had a really long stretch of constantly winning. What
does he look like Mercedes kind of Lenny Kravitz ish.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
I say, did you see him at the met Gala?
I did not watch any second of them.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
That we had the news on last night. This was
this was a really funny moment by my wife. They flat,
They go, I thought Lewis Hamilton looked amazing and it
is awesome. They flashed him up there and I go, wait, now,
who's that guy? And my wife goes, I think he
was in that musical to Hamilton. I go, because his
last name is Hamilton. You think he was in a
(06:20):
musical about Hamilton. No, I go, I think he's an
F one driver, But I need to ask Christine.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Yes, and he's with Ferrari now. And he was really
funny over the radio this past weekend. By the way,
y'all watching, all right, we'll book him.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
I'm gonna there's several more, but I want to do
this last one because it ties into Ben replace Hudson
as his manager publicist. It says there's precedent for this
in two thousand and five, when Tom Cruise fired his
sister Leanne de Vett as his publicist. It says Belichick
can learn from that, but it's nepotism. It's somebody who's
(06:55):
not qualified. You get on and you're gonna put your
crew on. Hey man, I got jobs for everybody. I'm
gonna bring everybody up. But then you've got people in
jobs that are not qualified to do and you get
into a crisis and you realize, oh my god, we
need someone with experience.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Tom's sister is not the woman for that.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
And this is the time when Tom's jumping up and
down on a couch while everyone's going with's scientology doing
to him.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
Crisis.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Let me just say they say that her that says
that she can go back to focusing on her luxury
real estate empire that is valued at eight million dollars, right,
and it's all And hasn't it increased in the time.
Didn't we talk about that that they've been dating. Oh yeah, yeah,
skyrocketed now yeah, so why don't she just go do that? Anyways,
(07:38):
there you go. That is a crisis PR team weighing
in on Bill Belichick.
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