Bill Belichick Not a First Ballot Hall of Famer // Did Past Cheating Scandals Hurt Belichick’s Hall of Fame Case? // Caller Reaction - 1/28 (Hour 1)
Felger & Massarotti
Beasley Media Group
4.1 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
- (0:00) Felger, Mazz, and Murray open the show discussing yesterday’s breaking news that Bill Belichick will not be a first ballot Pro Football Hall of Famer.
- (10:44) The callers give their thoughts on the Belichick news.
- (20:52) Did the Hall of Fame voting committee hold the Patriots past cheating scandals against Belichick?
- (29:19) More discussion on Bill Belichick not being a first ballot Pro Football Hall of Famer.
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| 0:00.0 | I think that feels like a nice package there. |
| 0:03.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:04.0 | Wow. |
| 0:05.0 | Look at those phones light up. |
| 0:06.0 | It's Elgin Maz. |
| 0:07.0 | On the 8-5, the Sports Hub. |
| 0:09.0 | We start with some breaking news out of the NFL, and it's a stunner. |
| 0:13.0 | Don Madnata and Seth Wickersham report that eight-time Super Bowl champ Bill Belichick will not get into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. |
| 0:24.2 | Despite a record, six Super Bowl wins as a head coach, Belichick received the call from the hall saying he didn't have the necessary votes. |
| 0:32.1 | According to sources, SpyGate and Deflakegate scandals factored into some of the voters thinking. |
| 0:38.5 | Belichick has the most playoff wins in NFL history and the second most total wins |
| 0:43.4 | only behind Hall of Famer Don Shula. |
| 0:47.5 | It's ESPN with the scene setter there as we come in here on a Wednesday, January the 28th, |
| 0:53.0 | Belgrade, Mass from our town fair tire studios here in Waltham, joined by Maz and Big Jamari. |
| 0:58.2 | How are you guys doing? Good you. Good. Hi. |
| 1:00.4 | Day later, what are your thoughts, Maz? |
| 1:02.6 | So to me, there were really two parts of this thing, and the first and most obvious one is that |
| 1:09.6 | Bill Belichick is a slam dunk, absolute 100%, no questions asked, |
| 1:16.3 | Hall of Famer. And I don't think there are many people that think otherwise. There might be people |
| 1:20.6 | out there who think the cheating damages his reputation, that there has to be some penalty for it, but I think we all agree |
| 1:29.5 | his credentials and his acumen as a coach are indisputable. |
| 1:33.8 | He's a Hall of Famer, and he should be in the Hall of Fame. |
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