Bill Belichick NOT a FIRST BALLOT Hall of Famer!? Josh Allen gets his hire! Coco Gauff is right! (Episode 1406 Hour 1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Sports, Business, Baseball

4.7 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Today’s word of the day is ‘second down’ as in Bill Belichick as in Hall of Fame as in denied as in shocker. Wow. A story came out on ESPN last night that 8x Super Bowl-winning head coach Bill Belichick would not be a first ballot Hall of Famer. Wow. (17:20) The Buffalo Bills have hired Joe Brady as the team’s next head coach. Promoted. What a search. Josh Allen got his guy! (24:00) Mike McCarthy is now the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Does that mean that Aaron Rodgers is coming back? Art Rooney II says the team will NOT rebuild! (26:50) Review: Blue Moon. (29:45) NPPOD. (32:22) Shedeur Sanders is headed to the Pro Bowl. Very deserving. (40:50) The Australian Open is having some problems. Coco Gauff was eliminated, slammed her racket in the tunnel, and the world saw it. Why? Cameras everywhere! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Second down.
0:40.0	That's the nothing personal word of the day for Wednesday, January 28th,
0:44.4	2026.
0:46.2	It is second down in 10 for Bill Belichick, the former coach of the New England Patriots,
0:53.3	former defensive coordinator of the New York
0:55.9	Giants, owner of eight, not seven, not six, not five, eight Super Bowl rings, six as a head coach,
1:04.3	two as a defensive coordinator, second down in ten, because he is not a Hall of Famer.
1:14.1	People have lost their collective minds.
1:17.8	Like we have committed one of the great wrongs.
1:21.8	I'm one of the great people of all time.
1:25.2	Best coach ever.
1:31.5	Not voted into the Hall of Fame as a first ballot Hall of Famer, the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. It's not exactly like the
1:37.3	Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown for myriad reasons, but the voting is slightly different.
1:44.4	In baseball, it's all media members.
1:47.9	Baseball Writers Association of America.
1:50.8	That's not the case in the NFL.
1:52.8	The NFL does have media members vote, but that's not it.
1:57.4	There's other groups of people who vote like football figures think about that like a former
2:06.5	general manager of a team or a former coach of a team so former hall of famers get votes in baseball you don't get an opportunity to be voted on by anyone other than a member of the
2:22.4	media until you go into those eras committees where Jeff Kent was voted in this past
2:30.0	cycle and will be part of the class going in July.
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