Two weeks ago, ESPN analyst Dan Orlovsky told “The Pat McAfee Show” he heard Bill Belichick and the Patriots would not only part ways this offseason, but Belichick had “already determined” his next team.

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On Monday, Belichick dismissed Orlovsky’s comments.

“Yeah, that’s ridiculous,” Belichick said during a morning interview on WEEI.

Belichick has come under increasing fire this season, as the Patriots sit dead last in the AFC standings for multiple weeks. Sunday’s loss to the Giants dropped them to 2-9. Belichick is now 27-35 over the last three-plus seasons.

Prior to this season, the Patriots had never started 2-9 in Belichick’s 24-year run as head coach. The Pats are currently tracking to have the No. 3 overall pick in next April’s draft and appear headed for an offseason rebuild.

Orlovsky made his comments during a Nov. 14 appearance on The Pat McAfee Show. The following day, he seemed to back away from the rumor when asked to expound during an interview on WEEI’s “Jones & Mego with Arcand.”

“I heard a couple different places that were potentially attached. They’re not going to be shocking to anybody ’cause they’re places that have had question marks at the head coach attached to them throughout this season, I would say,” Orlovsky said. “So it’s not all that, again, if you sit down and say. ‘What teams do we think at least, maybe, entertain moving on from their coach?’ It’s not all that impossible to connect some dots, you know?”