BrianPat

Still looking at everything, at this point, New England guilty of nothing

http://www.projo.com/patriots/conten...P.354f5bf.html

BadMoFo

We know this already. ESPN and the NFL Network both have said that the NFL (Aiello) says they have not made a determination. This reporter just played up that angle, possibly because the reporter does not have the league insiders that ESPN and the NFL Network has.

MoLewisrocks

I guess those would be the same folks who assured them that Michael Vick would not be indicted.

If I were the commissioner I'd be more concerned with finding out who those league sources are and just what is in it for them every time they drop a dime on somebody in media and tell them what Goodell is thinking...

The way I look at it, if Bill was worth a first in 2000, he's worth a couple of more in 2008. After all, we banked quite a few from 2007. And it's not like we fill a quarter of the roster with them like some teams. Hell, we'd have just as likely traded them into 2009 anyway.

BadMoFo

I'm not saying that ESPN's and NFL Network's sources are 100 percent correct, but I am saying is that the ProJo article is saying the exact same thing that the sports media giants have said, but it was written in a way that makes it seem like the Pats are in the clear.

Of course ESPN is wrong on occassion, look at the Eli Manning story just yesterday. But if you've seen the coverage on NFL Network and ESPN today, it appears like they have no doubt about it.

CheerforTom

But this article denies that BB was summoned anywhere. It also asserts that the NFL hasn't determined anything in terms of guilt, which is quite a bit different from most of the stuff you read around here lately.

BadMoFo

Most of the articles I have seen on the topic, including the ESPN article, says that the NFL spokesman has said nothing has been determined. ESPN and the NFL Network are reporting that their league sources have said that Goodell has determined they are guilty and the video backs it up. I'm saying ProJo led their story with my first sentence, possibly because they have not talked to these league sources that ESPN and the NFL Network has talked to.

MoLewisrocks

I guess then those league sources are saying Goodell is a liar.

BrianPat

How about this one

4:40 p.m.): League spokesman Greg Aiello just said that not only is Belichick not in New York now, he won’t be at all. “There will be no face-to-face meeting,” Aiello said. Left unsaid is whether the commissioner will speak to Belichick over the phone, but at the very least Belichick’s game preparation for the Chargers won’t be disturbed this week. http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/sp...triots/?p=1579

nhpatsfan

I don't get it. This link http://www.projo.com/patriots/conten...P.354f5bf.html says "NFL security officials confiscated a video camera and tape from New England video assistant Matt Estrella during the game. Estrella was on the Patriots’ sidelines while he was taping New York’s signals."

But this picture shows the supposed cameraman on the Jets sideline.


Is the quote in the article just an example of poor reporting? Were those words from the NFL? Or am I just wrong in understanding it somehow?

SaCaCh

That picture is just what someone pulled up thinking they had found the smoking gun, it proved nothing. There are other outlets there filming every part of the game that are allowed too. Its just official patriots personel are not allowed too.