While promoting his new film Patriots Day, Berg recently went on The Bill Simmons Podcast and revealed the plot of the script that he and Katims had discussed. Berg said that the two of them “had a whole pitch that it was going to be based on Mike Leach getting in trouble for allegedly doing something that he most likely didn’t do … Jason Katims worked pretty hard on it.”
Leach was fired from Texas Tech in 2009 for the poor treatment of a player with a concussion. So essentially, had the movie come to fruition, fans would’ve watched as Coach Taylor was accused of something and worked to prove his innocence.
Source and more: EW
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