More than two decades after his acrimonious split with the Jets, now-North Carolina head coach Bill Belichick reportedly reached out to the franchise about its head coach position.

After displaying a well-known hatred towards the Jets over the years—and also going 39–13 against them during his NFL career—Bill Belichick recently called New York about its vacant head coaching job. According to CBS Sports' Jonathan Jones, Belichick himself called the team "to gauge interest" and was told they were just starting their search.

When Bill Belichick took the head coaching job at the University of North Carolina earlier this week, it might have led some Jets fans to sigh in relief and wipe their collective brow, believing that Belichick finally couldn’t hurt them anymore.