00:00Just your initial thoughts on Belichick and what happened to him or didn't happen to him last night.
00:05Man, it's absurd and it makes the pro football...
00:10Hall of Fame just look bad.
00:12I mean, I'd say shameless.
00:13You have the greatest coach of all time.
00:15I mean, one of the greatest defensive coordinators of all time.
00:18He's with the Giants and he goes to New York.
00:20New England and he's the head coach and GM.
00:22I think that's another aspect of it, of a dynasty.
00:25Right, that lasted two decades and the fact that he wouldn't be...
00:30a first ballot Hall of Famer is...
00:33I think it's just sad, you know?
00:35People should be held accountable.
00:36That's the thing that sort of drives me nuts.
00:38You have these, you know, group of people who say...
00:40sit in a room for, you know, however many hours or days and they debate on who should...
00:45be a Hall of Famer.
00:45All right, I understand that.
00:47But, like, I think at the very least, then people should...
00:50be able to debate if they were right or wrong.
00:51And that means putting their name to their vote, you know?
00:55At the Baseball Hall of Fame, at least people, like, put it out there.
00:57You know, people track it.
00:58There's that guy who does, like, the spreadsheet.
01:00Like, when something like this happens, it's like, all right, I mean, why did it happen?
01:04And the...
01:05people who didn't vote for him, the 11, they should speak up.
01:07I mean, this is what this is all about.
01:09You're going to call yourself...
01:10a journalist, fine.
01:11Have an opinion.
01:12Put it out there.
01:12Because, I don't know, the whole thing is honestly...
01:15I'm trying not to use, like, expletives on the radio, but...
01:18I would actually be funny...
01:20if you did that.
01:21I'm wondering, as a writer, a guy that covers this team...
01:25and who has a lot of friends around the country who have votes, I assume, when...
01:30When you get news like that last night, do you immediately get on the phone, call these
01:33people, and go, what the...
01:35What the F are you thinking?
01:36I was honestly mainly just talking with my fellow people who have covered the page.
01:40and Bill Belichick before, like...
01:42I don't...
01:42I see some, like, you know, people on Twitter...
01:45or social media, be like, oh, you know, the media doesn't like Bill, because he treated
01:48him poorly.
01:49As someone who sat there...
01:50as someone who sat there with Bill for, you know, a while, and at times, was treated poorly.
01:53I think, as a...
01:55as a sports writer, it's your job to set aside your personal opinion.
01:58I mean, whether you're voting for...
02:00all pro or MVP, it doesn't matter how nice someone was, too.
02:04That's not what the...
02:05Hall of Fame is about, you know?
02:06I mean, there's a reason why, like, you know, OJ Simpson's name...
02:10still hangs in Ralph Wilson's stadium.
02:12It's because he was a Hall of Fame player, and they're celebrating what he did on the...
02:15field, and, like, and I'm not comparing OJ to Bill Belichick.
02:18So, like, Bill Belichick being...
02:20grumpy on the podium, like, that should mean someone doesn't vote for him?
02:22No, that's absurd, and then...
02:25get to the Spygate, Deflategate stuff.
02:26I just think...
02:28I mean, as a...
02:29I was a Patriot fan...
02:30when Spygate happened, and I thought it was overblown, and Deflategate to just rehash
02:33all that now to be like...
02:35man, I think people try to make an example out of Bill for maybe some...
02:40some of that, and some of it's just sour grapes.
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