Don Banks snap judgements on today's events - New England Patriots Forums

SVN · 05-13-2008, 09:46 PM

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...aps/index.html

makes some good points

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Those tapes sure got ESPN's three-man studio crew of Cris Carter, Mark Schlereth and Trey Wingo all hopped up though. When I looked at the tapes they were sketchy, shaky, grainy and jumpy for much of the time. I even had a hard time picking out the familiar figure of Marty Schottenheimer on the San Diego sideline.

But when Carter, Schlereth and Wingo reviewed the tapes, they saw something akin to the NFL's Zapruder film. At one point, Carter declared what he saw the Patriots engaged in was definitely "cheating.'' Well no kidding? Wasn't that established in September?

Watching ESPN and its breathless analysis, you got the feeling that the Patriots were wide open to a whole new round of discipline from Goodell. But that only proved to me they couldn't see the forest for the trees in Bristol, Conn., because it has been clear since last Wednesday night that Walsh's tapes would not open a new chapter in the Spygate saga.

The tapes certainly showed the Patriots' diligence to their taping program, but my sense was that if you put a dozen ex-NFL players in a room and asked them to assess the benefits of the tapes, you'd get some very divergent opinions

patsfaninpa · 05-13-2008, 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by SVN

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...aps/index.html

makes some good points

Rod Woodson looked at them. Said they are no help in winning football games.
What I don't get about this is. It's our coach's job to figure out what the bleep
the other team is doing. We live in a country where companies will do anything
to screw over the competition for the extra buck. We have a president who sold
out the american people to his oil buddies. We have steroid use. We have intent
to injure. We have seen teams use every possible angle to win. I don't even
argue the point as to whether or not it's cheating. It's his job. If you don't like
it you should disguise your signals. If you obsess about the cheating topic I tell them
that CYO has some good sports they might be interested in.