DarrylS

read this article this AM, and still cannot figure out what it is about, my view is that the Patriots try every angle and every possibility to win, just because most of the rest of the coaches are dumb as rocks, shouldn't they try.. I guess open season on the Pats continues.. maybe Spinctre can investigate these allegations also..

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/sp...=1&oref=slogin

With the advances have come new temptations for coaches to gain an unfair advantage. Every Monday during the football season, the league says, it fields complaints from and about many teams.

If a persistent problem is identified, the league’s eight-member competition committee suggests changes to rules. In discussions of changes since 2000, one team, the New England Patriots, has surfaced more than any other, according to a longtime N.F.L. team executive with direct knowledge of the meetings.

The committee heard accusations that the Patriots had taped opposing coaches’ signals, placed microphones on defensive players to steal quarterbacks’ audible signals and manipulated clocks and coach-to-quarterback radio systems....

The N.F.L. team executive said the changes to the manual matched complaints against the Patriots.

“When they change the rules, they don’t mention teams,” the executive said. “But in my mind, a lot of it was from New England.”

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flasox27

I am sure there committee also hears accusations about piped in sound and excessive heat in ther supposedly climate controlled dome stadia too. Of course if the competition committee is controlled by the representative of team against whom the complaints are made nothing will happen too.

flasox27

I am sure the committee also heard accusations about piped in sound and excessive heat in ther supposedly climate controlled dome stadia too. Of course if the competition committee is controlled by the representative of team against whom the complaints are made nothing will happen too.

BSR

Another hack job with no objectivity. Stacey James was even quoted in the article:

“We believe that this inquiry is patently biased and that a truly objective report would investigate all instances of these complaints, not exclusively those against the Patriots.”

The writers then ignored it. They state that their source says that most of the complaints are about the Patriots. What does that mean? Is that 90% or is that 15% with no other team being greater then 5%? Also, they only focused on the complaints against the Patriots. What are the nature of the complaints against other teams? What if there is something that is far worse there. Are there any other patterns there? It has been mentioned in the past about other teams losing their communications, it has also been mentioned about pumped in crowd noise. No mention of these other teams or violations what so ever. No objectivity at all.

Oh and here is one other matter that TOTALLY invalidates the article. It states that the Patriots are the ONLY team to have a complaint against them found to be true. "The league has handled the complaints internally, finding no proof for all but one.." Except that statement is FALSE. A complaint was filled by the Bears against the 49ers just this past free agent period, proof was found to justify the complaint, and punishment was issued. This was ignored however, to obviously just make the Patriots the focus. It is sad really that they actually have to publish false statements in order to push their agenda.

DefenseRules

We should sue the NYT for printing crap like this. All we do is sit in here and complain. Take the complaints to the source.

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NoCal Patriot

There is nothing new in this story.The 'Source" is the guy who called Belichick,"Mentally Unstable"The Ny Times has sunk to a new lower level if that's possible.

shmessy

They were the ONLY team, but were mention far MORE than anyone else? Sentence #2 immediately contradicted sentence #1.
As a former linguist, that's like saying 'she's a little pregnant'.

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"In my mind"??????

Could he rationalize that any more? I thought New England was "the only team, really".

Journalism R.I.P.

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40yrpatsfan

There's not a fact in that article, and two point-blank rebuttals by the league and NE. Just an anonymous source with an agenda, who contradicts himself repeatedly.

But NYT, let's not let that stand in the way of some good witch-hunting!

upstater1

The article also mentis the language for taping was "reworded" in 2007.

upstater1

Also, the Patriots were apparently fine with te Dolphins taping in 2006, and so was the NFL.

Therefore, all this article shows is that, unlike the Patriots, there are a lot of whiny jealous haters in football, starting with the Jets and Colts.