Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson Caught on Hot Mic Slamming Employees While Filming Show: “Can’t Do S—”

It seems even leg­endary coach­es can get caught off guard when the mics are still on.

A new­ly leaked video has sur­faced fea­tur­ing North Car­oli­na head coach Bill Belichick and his girl­friend Jor­don Hud­son, where the pair can be heard mak­ing unflat­ter­ing remarks about staff mem­bers on the set of Belichick’s now-defunct show Coach.

The audio, released by Pablo Torre on his Pablo Torre Finds Out pod­cast, cap­tures the cou­ple dis­cussing the pro­duc­tion team dur­ing what appeared to be a behind-the-scenes meet­ing.

“I don’t know how they have four full-time graph­ics peo­ple,” Hud­son, 24, says in the clip.

“They can’t do s—,” Belichick, 73, blunt­ly replies — earn­ing an imme­di­ate “Right?” from Hud­son.

The com­ments report­ed­ly took place last year while Coach was still in pro­duc­tion. The show fea­tured Belichick along­side fel­low NFL vet­er­ans Matt Patri­cia (now Ohio State’s defen­sive coor­di­na­tor) and Michael Lom­bar­di, UNC football’s gen­er­al man­ag­er. Togeth­er, they broke down NFL plays and offered com­men­tary — until the series was qui­et­ly dis­con­tin­ued.

In the leaked exchange, Hud­son — a for­mer col­lege cheer­leader who has become a reg­u­lar fix­ture on the side­lines at UNC games — can be seen lean­ing in beside Belichick, cri­tiquing the team’s work on-screen graph­ics. She even claimed she could do the job her­self “in five min­utes” and joked about being paid “two grand” to fix it.

At one point, she laughed, call­ing it a “how many peo­ple does it take to screw in a light­bulb” sit­u­a­tion.

Accord­ing to Torre, Hudson’s involve­ment behind the scenes report­ed­ly sur­prised many on the pro­duc­tion staff, who didn’t expect her to play such an active role in the cre­ative process.

Belichick, known for his no-non­sense demeanor dur­ing his decades with the New Eng­land Patri­ots, hasn’t pub­licly com­ment­ed on the leaked footage. PEOPLE mag­a­zine has reached out to both Belichick and Hud­son for a response.

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The leak comes just days after Belichick faced a storm of rumors regard­ing his coach­ing future at UNC. Fol­low­ing three con­sec­u­tive blowout loss­es and a rocky 2–3 start to the sea­son, reports sug­gest­ed that the uni­ver­si­ty was explor­ing a poten­tial buy­out of his con­tract.

But the eight-time Super Bowl win­ner shut that spec­u­la­tion down ear­li­er this week.

“Some of the reports out last week about my look­ing for a buy­out and try­ing to leave here and all that is cat­e­gor­i­cal­ly false,” Belichick said dur­ing Monday’s press con­fer­ence. “Glad I’m here. Work­ing toward our goals and the process.”

For now, the con­tro­ver­sy over the Coach hot mic moment adds yet anoth­er head­line to an already tur­bu­lent sea­son for Belichick — a man who’s built a career preach­ing dis­ci­pline, but who may now be learn­ing a clas­sic les­son him­self: in the mod­ern era, the micro­phones are always on.