Bill Belichick

It's like when someone steals from you and you find out they stole from someone else, don't you just assume they're just a thief?

Yeah.

I think a lot of that came into play.

Now, I do think... It's a quick little slap on the wrist on the way to the Hall of Fame for Bill.

Yeah.

Just like, you're not going to get away with that.

Is that... I think there's also some petty involved and some ego involved, where it may be certain writers...

Didn't like the way he interacted or didn't interact with the media.

We've all seen famous quotes from Bill Belichick at the podium.

He was a pain in the ass with the media.

He was not easy to deal with.

But his main job is not to be easy to deal with.

It's to win games.

If that is part of it, then it's petty.

And then you take into account this idea that it's a vote...

and you have the five guys you're voting for, and you only get so many votes, and you're like, well, I'm going to vote for this guy because certainly everybody else is going to vote for Bill Belichick.

And I think that's the final piece, which I don't know how much it has in a factor, but I guarantee you, if there were 11 people out of 50, at the minimum, who left Bill Belichick off the ballot,

It's because some of them thought he'd be on other ballots and they wanted to make sure their guy that they had been trying to champion.

And I think this is part of what's wrong with the process.

Yeah, like they didn't have to do it because other people would do it.