Colin Cowherd: Bill Belichick Has 'Several Asterisks' On Hall of Fame Case

Bill Belichick was snubbed. Colin Cowherd understands it. 

Belichick coached the New England Patriots to six Super Bowl victories and won two more as the defensive coordinator of the New York Giants. It was reported on Tuesday that he failed to secure the required number of votes to be a first-ballot inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. While many disagree with the voters' decision, Cowherd sees the other side of things. 

"If you have several asterisks by your name, is it OK to pause for a year?" Cowherd posed.

Cowherd's opposition to Belichick's induction stems from three separate counterarguments, or asterisks, as he put it. 

The most glaring reason is that the coach struggled to win without the greatest quarterback of all time, Tom Brady. All six of Belichick's rings as the Patriots' head coach came with Brady under center. Take a look at the years when Brady wasn't in New England, and Belichick's record is not pretty.

"If you take out one superstar quarterback in Belichick's career," Cowherd said. "He has a winning percentage lower than Jerry Glanville (a head coach in Houston and Atlanta from 1985-93), and equal to Anthony Lynn (the Chargers head coach from 2017-2020). With (Tom) Brady, his teams scored almost 29 points per game, and he won 77% of his games. Without Brady, they scored 19 points, and he wins 44%. And not only that, he was fired in Cleveland without him. He was about to get fired before Drew Bledsoe got hurt. And then the minute Brady left, he put a defensive coordinator in at OC."

"Mike Vrabel (the current New England head coach) is getting to a Super Bowl with Drake Maye, who's not even a finished project," Cowherd added. "Mike Vrabel got a No. 1 seed with