Hour 2: Belichick Bypassed, Darnold's Critics, Coaching Hires

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🗓️ 28 January 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Get Up resumes with more on the media's baffling decision to keep Bill Belichick out of the Hall of Fame. Greeny breaks down some of the stats from his illustrious career! (0:00) Meanwhile - K-Mart gives her take on Sam Darnold and his remaining critics! (14:50) Then - we play a game of Jeff-initely or Jeff-initely not. Which coaching hires will Jeff-initely workout? (24:15) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, rolling on. We are as we begin hour number two of get up here this morning with you.
0:05.4	I got Trager and Kimberly Martin here. We got Jeff and Neek up with us early this morning.
0:09.5	Sal Palantoneo is going to jump in because he is a Hall of Fame voter.
0:13.2	And so perhaps he can make some sense of the stunning news that begins this hour.
0:18.2	The Hall of Fame will continue to exist next year and Bill Belichick will
0:21.1	continue not to be in it. Sources tell the SPN. Seth Wickersham and Don Van Nata Jr.
0:26.8	That Belichick fell short of the 40 out of 50 votes needed for induction. Belichick got the news on
0:33.7	Friday. He's said to be, quote, puzzled and disappointed, even telling one associate,
0:38.6	quote, six Super Bowls isn't enough. Multiple sources tell ESPN that SpyGate and Deflategate,
0:44.6	two of the scandals during the Patriots championship runs, came up in deliberations among voters.
0:51.1	We do have Sal Palantoneo with us. We're having a little technical difficulty,
0:55.0	so I'm told that we have him on the phone. We'll be able to hear him but won't be able to see him, but we should still be able to get to the heart of the matter here. So Sal, assuming you're with us, you've been a Hall of Fame voter now for 12 years. You and I have talked through the process a million times. I think the first thing people want to know is, did you vote for Bill Belichick?
1:13.0	I voted for Bill Belichick. I voted for Bill Belichick as our first
1:16.1	ballot Hall of Famer, Michael. I supported his candidacy all the way throughout. You know, I took into
1:22.5	account a lot of the things that you've been discussing. As a voter, you took into a lot of things into account.
1:28.6	Number one, SpyGate, no question about it. You look at it. It's something that I covered firsthand.
1:34.0	I was there today at MetLife Stadium that it happened. I was there at Commissioner's Press
1:38.3	conference when Bill Belichick and the Patriots were fined and punished. You take into account,
1:43.2	will he be coming back into the NFL?
1:45.7	Are you concerned about that at all?
1:47.7	You look at all of those things, but the bottom line is, in the end,
1:52.3	his credentials and accomplishments as a coach in the National Football League
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