February 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\nWhile Dungy passed the blame onto the voting format, Harrison didn\u2019t appear to be buying what his fellow NBC analyst was saying.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I would say, coach, is any list that doesn\u2019t include Bill Belichick at the top is absolutely wrong,\u201d Harrison said. \u201cAnd a lot of those players that we mentioned, they\u2019re great players. I played with Drew Brees. I played with Adam Vinatari. But there\u2019s nobody more deserving to be in that Hall of Fame than Coach Belichick. I\u2019ve seen his greatness. I\u2019ve seen him design defenses to stop your offense. You just look at the players that he\u2019s impacted.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been unbelievable. When I look throughout the Hall of Fame, and even a guy like Tom Brady, Tom Brady wouldn\u2019t be Tom Brady without Bill Belichick. That\u2019s the disappointing part of it, Coach, and you guys got it wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
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NBC Sports announcers Jac Collinsworth, Tony Dungy, and Rodney Harrison on-air for \u201cFootball Night in America.\u201d Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Dungy responded by saying that he understood Harrison\u2019s \u201cpassion\u201d and that the issue went beyond just Belichick.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He also said that he and his fellow voters had been vocal about the need for it to change.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Dungy, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016, wouldn\u2019t say how he voted, he did defend his fellow voters while throwing the Pro Football Hall of Fame under the bus.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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NBC Sports announcer Rodney Harrison interacts with Tony Dungy on \u201cFootball Night in America.\u201d Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this category, coaches, contributors, senior players; there are five finalists. You could vote. We voted as a team. Our group voted. Roger Craig got the most votes. I stand behind that as a teammate. That\u2019s how we voted,\u201d he said. \u201cBut here\u2019s the problem. We voted for three people. There are two other slots available. Bill Belichick definitely deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Robert Kraft deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. L.C. Greenwood deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Ken Anderson deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. And we\u2019ve got two slots. But because of a change that the Hall of Fame made two years ago, none of those guys got in. And it wasn\u2019t because of us.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople think that we voted against Bill Belichick. We did not. As a matter of fact, if the same exact vote had taken place, same totals two years ago, Bill Belichick would be in, so would another deserving Hall of Famer. And that\u2019s why I\u2019m upset.\u201d<\/p>\n
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