{"id":725516,"date":"2026-02-03T05:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/725516\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T05:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T05:34:14","slug":"patrick-willis-shares-blunt-take-on-bill-belichicks-hall-of-fame-snub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/725516\/","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Willis shares blunt take on Bill Belichick&#8217;s Hall of Fame snub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUNNYVALE, Calif. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/31\/sports\/bill-belichicks-fingerprints-all-over-this-patriots-super-bowl-2026-run\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Belichick<\/a> will not join Patrick Willis in the Pro Football Hall of Fame this week, and the 49ers legend told The California Post on Monday he didn\u2019t \u201chave much to say on that\u201d stunning reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey made the decision they made for the reason they did,\u201d Willis said of the voters who <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/28\/sports\/tom-brady-calls-bill-belichick-hall-of-fame-snub-completely-ridiculous\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">snubbed Belichick<\/a>. \u201cAnd it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Willis spoke with The California Post on Monday while appearing at Lowe\u2019s for a Super Bowl week event. Edward Lewis<\/p>\n<p>The former San Francisco linebacker added that he believes \u201cthere\u2019s no question\u201d Belichick\u2019s deserving of the honor, but he didn\u2019t want to speculate on why the ex-Patriots coach didn\u2019t get in on the first ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Despite arguably the best coaching resume in NFL history, it was reported last week Bill Belichick will not make it in the Hall of Fame on the first ballot. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know there\u2019s more to it than just him not getting in,\u201d Willis said while out at Lowe\u2019s for a Super Bowl week event. \u201cSo, like I said, there isn\u2019t too much more to really talk on that. That\u2019s about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco 49ers legend Patrick Willis was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2024 after a nine-year wait. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Despite an eight-year career in San Francisco that featured seven Pro Bowls and five All-Pros, Willis was not a first-ballot Hall of Fame selection.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it took him nine total years before he finally got his bronze bust in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Belichick had appeared to be on his way to\u00a0avoiding any kind of similar wait, but last week, ESPN reported he <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/27\/sports\/bill-belichick-falls-short-of-hall-of-fame-in-bewildering-first-ballot-vote\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">somehow fell short <\/a>of the 40 out of 50 votes required.<\/p>\n<p>The full Class of 2026 will be announced during NFL Honors on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SUNNYVALE, Calif. \u2014 Bill Belichick will not join Patrick Willis in the Pro Football Hall of Fame this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":725517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,3851,1443,7,249,6,1371,1161,252,2624,2623,9,505],"class_list":{"0":"post-725516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-bill-belichick","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-new-england-patriots","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-pro-football-hall-of-fame","15":"tag-san-francisco","16":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","17":"tag-sanfrancisco","18":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-super-bowl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/725517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}