THE HERD - Hour 3 - Defending Belichick

The Herd with Colin Cowherd

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Sports, Football, News, Basketball, Sports News

4.1 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Reporter Ian O’Connor joins The Herd to defend Bill Belichick’s qualifications to get into the Hall of Fame despite the cheating allegations.

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0:30.8	Well, he is the author of six books, five are New York Times best-selling author, best-selling books.
0:37.3	He is now at the Athletic. He's been at the
0:39.4	New York Post. To me, he's the most dependable columnist in America, a great reporter and a great
0:45.2	writer and a friend Ian O'Connor joining us now live. The article in the athletic today, very
0:51.3	comprehensive. And it pointed to what I said about SpyGate.
0:54.7	I would have voted Bill in, but I'm not going to hammer the people, sports riders,
1:03.1	whoever it is, who said, listen, SpyGate, the NFL doesn't make Ian a regular habit of taking
1:10.2	away first-round picks and third round
1:12.7	picks.
1:13.0	There were two spy gates.
1:14.9	They were warned for seven years.
1:16.9	So how do you answer to the people that say, yes, he's the best coach of all time, but
1:22.4	there has to be a tax on spy gate?
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