Best of The Herd
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
iHeartPodcasts and The Volume
4.1 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Colin Cowherd discusses Bill Belichick not receiving the necessary votes to get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He explains why it’s no surprise Belichick failed to get in the first time around due to the controversies surrounding “Spygate” in 2007.
Colin also talks about Sam Darnold leading the Seahawks to Super Bowl LX against the Patriots and why Darnold has proven he’s a top 5 QB in the league right now.
Plus, reporter Ian O’Connor joins the show to defend Belichick’s qualifications to get into the Hall of Fame despite the cheating allegations.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Thanks for listening to The Best of the Heard podcast. |
| 0:07.1 | Be sure to catch us live every weekday on Fox Sports Radio in noon to 3 Eastern, 9 a.m. to noon Pacific. |
| 0:13.8 | Find your local station for the herd at Fox Sports Radio.com or stream us live every day on the IHeart radio app by searching Fox Sports Radio or FSR. |
| 0:23.7 | This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowher on Fox Sports Radio. |
| 0:30.9 | It is a Thursday, Greg CoSell. |
| 0:35.0 | One hour from now, wild show yesterday yesterday all sorts of stuff cooking today |
| 0:41.9 | Jesse Minder new coach of the Ravens will be stopping by I think he's one of the |
| 0:46.2 | four coaching hires John Harbaugh's DeFansky Robert Sala Jesse Minter those |
| 0:51.8 | four I feel very very strongly about everything else. |
| 0:57.0 | Dice roll. |
| 0:58.4 | So I want to start with this. |
| 0:59.7 | Whenever there's a big, big, big story, a controversy, there's two or three or four columnists |
| 1:04.8 | in the country or reporters I lean on and make sure I read their columns for some contextualization. |
| 1:11.6 | Ian O'Connor is probably my most consistent columnist I trust for perspective. |
| 1:18.6 | And I read his story at the Athletic this morning about Belichick being snubbed in the Hall of Fame. |
| 1:23.6 | And sure enough, multiple sources saying it is SpyGate. |
| 1:29.8 | SpyGate, some did bring up, according to the article, that he won 45% of his games without Brady and often was embarrassing, but it was overwhelmingly, according to multiple sources, SpyGate that kept him out for a year. |
| 1:43.4 | Okay. |
| 1:51.8 | So, once again, I will say nobody kicked Bill out of the Hall of Fame and nobody is banning him forever. |
| 1:59.3 | He is getting a brief slap on the wrist for not just one spy gate. |
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