Fixit

Think about the most talented team.

The most well-coached team.

The most experienced team.

Now, possibly the most hated team.

All but a metaphorical handful have turned on them.

Their championship history is being questioned.

Teams and players that lost fair and square are coming out of the woodwork to whine about being cheated.

Can you imagine how pissed your New England Patriots must be?

That team given a chip that big?

This is actually cheering me up a little.

jman924

"Brady had to be doing a slow burn this week. All week long, it was all about Peyton Manning and his offense..."
"...well he's done his talking on the field."
Color Commentary during AFC Div. win over Indy 20-3

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We play! That's what we do! We don't talk, we play! You come to Foxboro, it's gonna be snowing, it gonna be cold...Come on in here! You wanna say all you want, you wanna change the rules, change 'em! We still play, and we win, that's what we do!" -Tedy Bruschi

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Kevin Faulk supporter.
Woo-hoo! Second Team baby!

Gunnails

Whatever the penalty, does the NFL have any idea what it's created?
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Hmmmm, maybe a level playing field?

MrTibbs

Yeah created a league FAR greater then the NFL, NBA and MLB.

Fixit

You don't really think that the other 31 teams don't steal signs, do you? You think the "Mangenius" is above that?

Mostly, you're pretty reasonable, but that statement is something worse than naive.

Tell me, please, how the playing field has been leveled, because it was already dead-on.

Fixit

I don't get this.

PrairiePat

Actually it's worse. What the NFL has done by (allegedly) coming down hard on the Pats and BB is legitimize the perception that, yes, the Pats have been cheating their way to wins throughout the BB era.

So now you have idiots all across the NFL landscape looking back at past losses to NE and saying "Hey, the commish smacked them down hard, there really must BE something to all this cheating stuff. Maybe they cheated when they beat us!" The ESPN story about the Eagles is a particularly stupid example of this.

Thanks, commish, now the NFL has an integrity scandal to match the NBA. Rather than realizing that everyone is trying to learn their opponents' signals and that this was just another method of doing that, and punishing the technicality accordingly, you chose to make a big splash about this rule violation, and now you get to suffer through the consequences.

Every past Superbowl and playoff winner will now be deemed to be cheating by the losing side and its fans. Teams that were previously considered 'well prepared and well coached' will now be assumed to be cheating somehow. Every correct call of offensive strategy will be derided as cheating... "The KNEW we were blitzing, so they threw a screen!!".

Nice job, commish. I hope you enjoy the fruits of your short-sightedness.

hwc

What do you mean by "field"?

Gunnails

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Hey Goodell is obviosly of the oppinion that this is a serious rule infraction that has created at least at times an unfair advantage for the Pats.

I don't buy that everyone does what the Pats are doing, maybe I am naive.

The thing is I am waiting for the other shoe to drop, there is more going on here then I am aware of. I think there is something going to be said about radio signals in the near future.

Sure I may be naive, an I am really pissed that the Jets got there ass handed to them in a game that might of been of been skewed due to the Pats cheating.

This makes me very mad.

SaCaCh

What are the Pats doing?