OTL Report: Goodell's Handling of Deflategate was a "Make-up Call," After Letting Pats Slide On Spygate (Panthers Related)

[SZ James (banned)]

So your defense of them is basically based on semantics then?  You agree that they were "cheap and shameful and unsportsmanlike" but don't think that what they did was actually cheating.

if chewbacca lives on endor, you must acquit

[JawnyBlaze]

this "Belichick is in their heads" mantra that idiot pats fans keep chanting is getting on my nerves real quick.  I'm starting to dislike them more than Steelers or 49ers fans...

[usmcpanthers]

so if this is all true the nfl is basically fixed then.  neat.

We have been saying this for years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PhillyB]

This is the best article I've read all year. It's long, but worth it. More Spygate details than I've ever seen.

"In fact, many former New England coaches and employees insist that the taping of signals wasn't even the most effective cheating method the Patriots deployed in that era. Several of them acknowledge that during pregame warm-ups, a low-level Patriots employee would sneak into the visiting locker room and steal the play sheet, listing the first 20 or so scripted calls for the opposing team's offense. (The practice became so notorious that some coaches put out fake play sheets for the Patriots to swipe.) Numerous former employees say the Patriots would have someone rummage through the visiting team hotel for playbooks or scouting reports. Walsh later told investigators that he was once instructed to remove the labels and erase tapes of a Patriots practice because the team had illegally used a player on injured reserve. At Gillette Stadium, the scrambling and jamming of the opponents' coach-to-quarterback radio line -- "small s---" that many teams do, according to a former Pats assistant coach -- occurred so often that one team asked a league official to sit in the coaches' box during the game and wait for it to happen. Sure enough, on a key third down, the headset went out."

holy poo lol

[rico6]

Just don't smack-a-hoe and smoke Pot in the NFL and you will be just fine. Everything else? fuging free for all baby.

[PhillyB]

We have been saying this for years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the nfl isn't fixed. not in any meaningful way

[PandaPancake]

the nfl isn't fixed. not in any meaningful way

Do you not see that many exclamation marks? He must be serious.

[ecu88]

Thank you!!! For the edit!!!! Lmfao SHAME!

[rodeo]

You're laughable at this point. Why don't you go talk to your "friends" here. I'm done with you.

Oh no you're not

[Darth Biscuit]

I know some fans argue that it invalidates the loss... I'm not so sure it does but I've never really argued that... but then again it was a damned close game and who's to say that their "not quite illegal but shameful scouting" didn't have some effect?

 

My point has been all along that the Patriots have what I (and many others) would call a "culture of cheating" and they got away with it for years and years.  I hate them for it and for their arrogance.

 

 

[rodeo]

I know some fans argue that it invalidates the loss... I'm not so sure it does but I've never really argued that... but then again it was a damned close game and who's to say that their "not quite illegal but shameful scouting" didn't have some effect?

My point has been all along that the Patriots have what I (and many others) would call a "culture of cheating" and they got away with it for years and years.  I hate them for it and for their arrogance.

Oh I'm sure they do. Belichek and Brady seem like legitimately horrible people.

[Peppers90 NC]

i still havent understood why they were going after Brady rather than Belichek to begin with, especially if this theory were true.

[Panther53521]

If you are a Patriot, You cheat .... Thats just what you do

[Paa Langfart]

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