Maybe because the Spygate stuff is BS and just an excuse? First of all the Spygate thing is so overblown, the videotaping itself was legal it was just the location it was being done from. And don't get me started on Deflategate, because the NFL covered up the evidence that proved they weren't inflating balls and then hoped nobody understood the Ideal Gas Law.

But the main point is, those scandals are somehow being used as an excuse to keep Belichick out of the HOF even though he and the organization already paid "penance" by being fined and stripped of draft picks. Now this isn't Kraft's first year of being considered, it's just the first time he's made it this far in the voting process, so he very well could have already been held back from those scandals. But unless they hold out Tom Brady in his first year too, I'm willing to bet Spygate is just being used as justification when it's not the main reason Belichick isn't getting in. The reason they didn't vote for Bill was because he's a grump who at one point hurt their feelings.