Bill Belichick is a Hall of Famer.

You know it. I know it. Anyone with a working brain knows it.

I know another group of people that knows it, even if they didn’t choose to admit or acknowledge it during a recent meeting: Pro Football Hall of Fame voters.

According to an ESPN report, Belichick didn’t receive the requisite votes necessary to become a first-ballot Hall of Famer this summer. He won’t be part of the 2026 class in Canton in August.

But the dumbest part of this whole thing isn’t the number of voters who decided to make Belichick wait his turn before induction.

It’s this.