Pats videoed and stole signs ofDolphins and others!!!!

i hate the pats as much as anyone… but this is just tiresome. they got caught, they were punished, it’s over. whether or not anybody thinks the punishment was enough is really besides the point.

and the bottom line is i really don’t think that all this was the reason for their success. if that was the case they would have fallen apart after week 3 last year… personally, i am just looking forward to this story going away.

So all of a sudden it’s no big deal because there wasn’t any tape of the super bowl walkthrough, but there IS tape of the AFC Championship game. Isn’t that just as bad?

The NFL confirmed that the tapes turned in by former video assistant Matt Walsh will not be used to levy more punishment against the Patriots.

“This is consistent with what the Patriots had admitted they had been doing, consistent with what we already knew,” league spokesman Greg Aiello said.
Source: Boston Herald

The NFL gets a preferred status when it comes to anti-trust laws in the U.S. There needs to be full accountability when it comes to such things.

The only way that this can be rectified is that the Patriots will be given automatic losses to all those teams this year (if they play).

And the Dolphins should get the 2002 Super Bowl.

And Tom Brady should be forced to admit he’s incredibly boring.

I am kidding about all this by the way. Everything except the anti-trust status, which is real.

of the puiblicity over this as well, but u gotta admit that it was pretty class A chicken **... i mean what, they were thinking the NFL would smile upon these actions??? and i agree, AFC championship is every bit as bad as a super bowl… i bet las vegas is interested in all of this, as there is a sig. amt. of $ that changes hands over playoff games… and it is usually par for the course that other ‘discrepencies’ will surface as well in the future w/ BB’s regime.. only time will tell, but, when ppl display symptoms of ‘Not Honorable’ it usually runs much deeper… kinda like ‘ugly’,... goes clean to the bone…. [lol]

I’m happy that this has proven to be repeated behavior from Belicheat. So cheating is the magic! I’m so sick of hearing how he is so smart. He was is a cheat and he got caught. Now we know this was normal SOP in Foxborough. “No one ajusts at halftime. . . I mean watches film and gets the other teams signals like Belicheat.”

I do believe that the Patriots have won with talent and good personnel moves but to say (like another poster did) that they won becuase of these two things alone is false IMHO. They also won by cheating. They were good but they also had an edge and I beleive it did help or he would have stopped doing it. He obviously thought it helped or he would not have spent so much time and resources on cheating. Look, they benefitted from good coaching, good players, good effort, and good scouting (cheating) . To discount the cheating is ignorant. To say that it was minimal because there are only 9 tapes ignores that there were most likely more but this is all we have to go on. I’m sure these tapes only scratch the surface of what he was doing.

Goodell will sweep this under the rug because he knows how widespread this is.
Oh well, maybe the next commish wont be a joke.