00:00Jason, do you think there's going to be changes made moving forward? Because you always talked about the process. And now there's some of the people that we're talking about. One of the reasons why they didn't vote has been many of the things that you have talked to me about over the last couple of years here about the process of the votes. Do you think there'll be changes?
00:20Yeah, I think there'll be changes. We're going to meet again, I think, in about a month. Now, understand, the voters have no say over the changes. They have no say over the process. We just didn't do the process that's laid out by the Pro Football Hall of Fame. And not this year, but the year before, they changed the process for both the modern era guys and for the senior coach and contributors. And we just discussed it.
00:50I mean, you can go find it. Basically, you're allowed in the in the five person group, the one that Bell checks in, you're only allowed to vote for three out of the five, which with 50 voters means there's 150 votes. You have to get 40 to get in. If you do some simple math and one person gets 40, there's only 110 votes left for the four people. The math gets really hard to get more than one person in. Last year, the only person we got in was Sterling Sharp, even though Mike Holmgren was on the ballot.
01:20So I think that, you know, we know that Belichick's not going to get in based on what the reports are. So that's that's one problem.
01:27And on the modern day guys, we get down to seven and then we vote for five. So the math's a little easier, but not much. So I only expect three guys are going to get in. And I think there was a lot, you know, there's been a lot of talk over the last year from voters saying, you're making this really, really hard.
01:46And it's making it tough for us to get guys who really do deserve to get in the Hall of Fame. And there's a little story behind that about why I think some of the older Hall of Famers or guys who were already in were a little upset in recent years by the number of guys who were getting in.
02:01But that's kind of a long story. It's kind of tortured. I'll just know that like guys like Deion Sanders were the leaders of that. But it's funny that Deion, you know, was a guy complaining about the number of guys getting in.
02:12And then he complained this week about Belichick not getting in. It's like, hey, dude, you know, which way do you want it is what I would say to Deion.
02:21But suffice to say, it's a long way of saying, I think that the Hall of Fame will make some changes this year based on what's happened and based on the complaints of a lot of people who are selectors and based on, I think, observations of the people who run the Hall of Fame.
02:35One last one here on this. You know, Deflategate, if that was such a debated topic in there for Belichick, shouldn't Tony Dungy and Bill Polian had recluse themselves from that conversation?
02:51I mean, at the end of the day, recuse. Thank you very much, Mr. Stanford. Yes.
02:57It's OK, Mr. Cain.
02:59Thank you very much.
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