When Rodney Harrison retired from football in June and began his broadcasting career a day later, he promised that he wouldn't hold back when it came to being critical of the team he spent six years and won two Super Bowls with.

And he has kept his word.

After the Patriots' stunning 35-34 loss to Indianapolis last night, Harrison, speaking on NBC's Sunday Night Football postgame show, Harrison called into question the decision of Bill Belichick to go for it on fourth-and-2 from the Pats' 28-yard line rather than punt the ball and put the game on his defense.

"You have to coach 60 minutes and you have to trust and believe in your players and you have to make the right decision. You cannot give Peyton Manning the opportunity on the 30 yard line to drive the ball and score a touchdown. I've been around Bill Belichick a long time and he's made a lot of great coaching decisions but this was the worst coaching decision I have ever seen Bill Belichick make," said Harrison.

Former Indy coach Tony Dungy, who is also in a member of the SNF team, said he also would have made the call to give the ball back to Peyton Manning and the Colts offense with two minutes to play.

"You have to punt the ball in that situation," Dungy said. "As much as you respect Peyton Manning and his ability and as much as you may doubt your defense you have got to play the percentages and punt the ball."

The percentages for an entire season may support Dungy's decision to punt, but given that the Patriots had already given up two 79-yard touchdown drives, one of which took just 2:04 and the second a mere 1:49, Belichick was looking at immediate past history, and those odds didn't look as good.