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If Belichick isn't getting into the Hall of Fame on the 1st ballot, what does that mean for Tom Brady?
Should have Belichick have received even more credit for coaching in the modern era?
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00:00A pure disrespect afforded Bill Belichick by the
00:05Pro Football Hall of Fame voters and talk about that thing.
00:10That thing, the whole thing.
00:12The whole thing.
00:13Yeah.
00:14And just now, like...
00:15Didn't the NFL put out a statement or something like that?
00:19The Hall of Fame did.
00:20Oh, the Hall of Fame did.
00:20That's gonna be my lead.
00:21Is that gonna be your lead?
00:22Yeah, I won't get into it.
00:23I'm just saying, like, just now with every...
00:25Everybody going, like, what the hell?
00:28Like, everybody is just like...
00:30What the hell were those, you know, 10 plus voters thinking who didn't vote?
00:35For Bill Belichick.
00:36Yeah.
00:37I mean, you guys, like...
00:38Guys like Lawrence Taylor chiming in.
00:39Oh, everyone.
00:40Lawrence Taylor supported Bill.
00:41Now that is a shocker.
00:43You know?
00:44Well, are we gonna...
00:45Can I hear what LT said, Shine, during they said it also?
00:48Yes, definitely, Greg.
00:49Okay.
00:50Yeah.
00:51I mean, basically, everybody with a brain...
00:55thinks it's complete disrespect.
00:57Right.
00:58And it puts, I think, a lot of...
01:00A lot of people think...
01:02I don't know how much credibility the...
01:04The pro football...
01:05Hall of Fame had anyway, but...
01:07Right.
01:08It puts, for a lot of people, it completely puts...
01:10It puts that in the rear view mirror.
01:13Like, they don't...
01:14There's zero...
01:15They don't...
01:15I don't think the Hall of Fame has any credibility whatsoever.
01:17No.
01:18If they had a little bit left, that thing is completely...
01:20Completely gone.
01:21So...
01:22That doesn't...
01:23If you were playing...
01:24If you were playing...
01:25Today, as opposed to 20 years ago...
01:27Right.
01:28Um...
01:29You...
01:30That would not...
01:30Be an important thing for you to...
01:32To achieve?
01:33I mean, you would still want to achieve it, but...
01:35I think it becomes...
01:36You...
01:37The people who are voting you in...
01:40The credibility is...
01:42It...
01:43Is...
01:44Like, completely gone.
01:45You would be like, well, if I didn't get in...
01:47Is it because people didn't like me as a per...
01:50Or were they holding grudges?
01:52You know?
01:53And...
01:54Then you would be like, well...
01:55You would look...
01:55Look at your stats.
01:56I think it would become more of that.
01:58Like, where...
01:59I'm not in...
02:00Because...
02:01Somebody didn't like me for whatever reason...
02:04Other than why...
02:05It should be in...
02:06Well, here's a way to look at it...
02:08In current times...
02:09How do you...
02:10I think Eli Manning looks at it...
02:11Because...
02:12You know...
02:13Eli Manning did not get in...
02:14So...
02:15Uh-huh...
02:15How do you think Eli Manning looks at it?
02:17I...
02:18I think he looks at...
02:19Do you think he thinks he should be in...
02:20Yeah.
02:21Yeah.
02:22And I think he looks at it as this...
02:23They're jokes.
02:24Like, this is a joke.
02:25Right.
02:25And now Bill Belichick not getting in...
02:27Has solidified how big of a joke it actually is.
02:30Right.
02:31And this was going to be part of my lead as well...
02:32Where it's like...
02:33It...
02:34It backfired on all...
02:35All of these people who, in my opinion...
02:37Took this as an opportunity to have the upper hand on Bill Belichick...
02:40And they were holding personal grudges...
02:42And I know that it came out yesterday that it was all based on...
02:45Spygate...
02:46Whatever.
02:47Yeah.
02:48I just think that it backfired because nobody's talking...
02:50Talking about the fact that Bill Belichick shouldn't have gotten in...
02:54Everybody's...
02:55Talking about the fact that he should have and everybody else looks like a loser.
02:58Okay.
02:59And they're going through the list and...
03:00Making fun of every single person on that list.
03:02It's completely backfired on them.
03:03Can I ask you a question?
03:04Yes.
03:05So...
03:06The NFL Hall of Fame has elected the greatest coaches of all time.
03:09The people that vote...
03:10And Tony Dungy.
03:11These are a list of people...
03:12And Tony Dungy.
03:13Right.
03:14These are a list of coaches that were not...
03:15Got elected to the Hall of Fame on their first ballot.
03:17Vince Lombardi.
03:18What is...
03:19There's something...
03:20Being named after him.
03:21What is it?
03:22Yeah.
03:23The trophy.
03:24Okay.
03:25Paul Brown.
03:26Bill Walsh.
03:25And Jimmy Johnson.
03:26Some of the...
03:28Bill Walsh.
03:29One of the great offensive minds in the history of the NFL.
03:30Jimmy Johnson created the dynasty of the Cowboys in the 90s.
03:33Paul Brown.
03:34One of the greatest coaches in the...
03:35In the history of the sport.
03:36And Vince Lombardi.
03:37The man who's the namesake for what you get when you win it all.
03:39So like...
03:40Were there people then?
03:41Like if we had X in 1971 when people were saying that like we should throw...
03:44You know...
03:45The museum has no value anymore.
03:47It's...
03:48These people are all the dumbest people on the planet.
03:50I mean it's almost like it's sort of normal for coaches.
03:53Not to get in on their first ballot.
03:55Well none...
03:55One of the coaches that you mentioned are the top two winningest...
04:00Best coaches ever in the league.
04:01Right.
04:02None of them have as a head coach...
04:05Of six Lombardians.
04:06Right.
04:07Well I'm certain that when Paul Brown was elected at that time he was the winner.
04:10King as coach.
04:11Yeah but those guys got it.
04:12They're also five teams and they wore leather helmets.
04:14Okay.
04:15I mean...
04:16You said the winningest coach.
04:17At the time they were there they were the winningest coach.
04:19But those guys...
04:20They got in...
04:21That's like saying Bobby Orr sucked because there were six teams.
04:23It's really not.
04:24Like I think...
04:25When people look at Shula's record they think that that's...
04:28That's a record that'll never be broken.
04:29Right.
04:30But...
04:30People around here rightfully think Bill's a better coach than Shula because no matter
04:33how many wins he had he underachieved in the playoffs.
04:35And I...
04:35I think that that's...
04:36I think playoff success is far more important than regular season wins.
04:38Yeah.
04:39So I would ask the same...
04:40question that I asked you yesterday which is do you...
04:43Do you not believe that Bill Belich...
04:45Is a first ballot pro football hall of famer?
04:47If I had known this yesterday I probably would have said it's no...
04:50No big deal.
04:51If I...
04:52Like if there were context around it where you see that Vince Lombardi, Paul Brown, Bill
04:55and Jimmy Johnson were not elected on their first ballot.
04:57The pain that you see for Bill Belichick being left out...
05:00Would be somewhat subdued.
05:01Well it's also though...
05:02The process is broken.
05:03Like...
05:04The...
05:05The...
05:05The Kansas City reporter who has a hall of fame vote put out a piece about how he...
05:10didn't vote for Bill Belichick and why.
05:12And it's like yeah it had nothing to do with Spygate or that I think Belichick...
05:15doesn't deserve it.
05:16It's...
05:17Oh well these other three guys like the Lenny Craig or whatever...
05:20Roger Craig...
05:21It might get left off the ballot going forward.
05:23It's their last chance so I voted...
05:25for all three of them instead.
05:26Yeah.
05:27Like what?
05:28That's so dumb.
05:29They don't...
05:30They don't deserve to be in.
05:30Any more...
05:31Or even close to how much Bill Belichick deserves to be in.
05:34But when you start...
05:35You start to look at guys that were first ballot hall of fame.
05:37And coaches you start to see guys like Tom Landry, Chuck Knoll...
05:40Don Shula.
05:41Like Belichick other than being second behind...
05:45Don Shula in all time wins.
05:47You would look at his resume versus Landry...
05:50And Chuck Knoll and go wait a second...
05:52You would say...
05:53You would say he's a better coach.
05:54Yeah.
05:55You would say...
05:55You would say that.
05:56It's subjective always.
05:57But I don't think anybody has ever said...
06:00When we've talked about the greatest coaches of all time...
06:03I don't think there have been any people that said...
06:05No.
06:06I believe that Chuck Knoll and Tom Landry are better than Bill Belichick.
06:09I understand that.
06:10The problem becomes the historical periods in which each of these...
06:15men did their work.
06:16Like for instance, with regard to Chuck Knoll...
06:19Mm-hmm.
06:20People...
06:20People always point to those Steelers Super Bowls...
06:22Right.
06:23And say, you know, that's a dynasty and that...
06:25You know...
06:25That gives the Patriots dynasty a run for its money...
06:28And then those who...
06:30who don't agree with it go wait a minute that was you know that was the game was completely
06:35different and terry bradshaw you know uh they handed the ball off
06:40so there are arguments it would work to bill's benefit though what what do you
06:45think what era of football do you think it would be harder to be a head coach in the 70s
06:50when chuck no was coaching those steelers defenses or the you know
06:552000s when bill was coaching the players today i would think it would be the 2000s
07:00just because of all the advancements uh when it everything we talked about
07:05uh the players are are better are more athletic
07:10like uh they take care of their bodies better i would just say free agency
07:15free agency is much harder to coach nowadays where chuck no had those guys
07:20for you know if he had mean joe green for 10 years alongside jack land
07:25amber and you know you were able to to look at how some of those great great point some of
07:30those teams were built back then where it's like okay every few years guys might be leaving
07:35to get more money or the free agency error is a lot harder to coach so to
07:40be able to sustain that for as long as bill was able to do that in this
07:45error not to say that those guys weren't good coaches all i'm saying is there's
07:50no argument where you can say he doesn't deserve to be
07:55a first ballot hall of fame and anybody who tries to argue that there is they are
08:00just doing it um which they're just trying to be a contrarian they're trying to tell
08:05everybody no the sun's not out when we all see it it's sunny and 85 degrees
08:10the sun is not out and honestly honestly i wish it was i think i have frostbite in the thing
08:15too greg if you want to go back through this because on the other side of the
08:17of the sort of argument with the steelers and chuck
08:20noll jerry dulac at the pittsburgh post-gazette didn't vote for for belichick
08:25but the 70s steelers were freaking on horse steroids like those guys were cheating like crazy
08:30yeah like so you can go to any era and pick out and be like yeah they this
08:35whole team was basically you know on anabolic steroids in the 70s so yeah but i think it's a
08:40the biggest thing and when we talk about it all the time and coaches will tell you
08:43you know that coach than that
08:45is that you were able to keep guys for so long i mean you just think about
08:50the fact that terry bradshaw had lynn swan and stalwart for all those years frank
08:55harris it's just and and when you i i did i can't find
09:00anybody like that like you said that had a brain and a set of eyes on them i
09:05saw von miller going if bill belichick's not a first ballot hall of famer what does that mean for a guy
09:10like tom brady tom brady absolutely should be but i right but
09:15somebody's gonna go well deflaking maybe somebody is gonna hold maybe some of them will hold the
09:20lake gate against them i guess and then they should shut down the hall of fame
09:23and that's when
09:25they should shut it down they should close it everybody like it's over because i'm sorry and
09:30i go back to this and i understand that oj simpson was put into the hall of fame before
09:33nicole
09:35brown simpson died yes how she died we don't know um but if you have somebody like that in the
09:40hall of fame then i'm sorry let's stop talking about spygate yeah but
09:45that shouldn't matter like because that was no no no but that was well before
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