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

TylerDurden

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PhillyB Grand Master

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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

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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.

 

 

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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.

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