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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Mangini deserves his share of the blame - but it was Goodell who was the one who decided to feign ignorance of spying in the NFL dating back to George Halas and Lamar Hunt.
Goodell knew that most NFL fans were too stupid to know the NFL allows filming of playcalling (just not from the sidelines) and decided to make himself look good by making Belichick look bad.
That wasn't Mangini's call - that was Goodell's and I lay most of the blame on his lap.
Actions have consequences, Eric. When you call in the Po-Po, the Po-Po are gonna do what the Po-Po do.
It's on you, and "My bad" is not going to bring back that draft pick. Thanks partly to you, we're stuck with the actions of a commissioner who thinks every minor incident is an opportunity to release his inner dictator.
Right, because what we all want is for the topic to be raised and focused on again.Eric Mangini. If you're truly sorry as you say you are...
Step 1:
Donate $1,000,000 to the Myra Kraft Giving Back Scholarship Fund with 3 checks. One for $500,000 (Belichick), and two for $250,000 (Mr. Kraft and the Draft Pick).
Step 2:
Explain in detail on ESPN programming exactly what "Spygate" was, and how every team did it - and how it was not nearly as big a deal as it was made out to be.
Step 3:
Call out Roger Goodell by name, and express in strong language just how ridiculous the punishment was.
Get these 3 things done, and the forgiveness discussion can begin.
Right, because what we all want is for the topic to be raised and focused on again.
If you got your wish there would be 50 articles, and TV commentaries about how Mangini is just covering for BB is full of crap, and BB is evil.
Let it die. No attention given the topic will end up positive
F.... Him!!
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
John Milton
The entire "Spygate" affair revealed the character of its main protagonists. Mangini stands alone as a man who turned on his mentor to whom "he owed everything" as he himself has acknowledged. That sort of betrayal cuts deep and is irreparable.
By contrast, BB comes across as a man whose character and reputation survived what would have felled a lesser man. The main reason for this is that BB responded forthrightly and truthfully to Goodell once the Commish launched his investigation. That is why the Commish was not surprised when that videographer emerged several months later with his personal copies of videotapes dating back to 2001. No one in the media expected that BB would survive evidence of filming dating back to his early days as Pats coach. Because no one expected that BB himself had disclosed this fully months earlier -- and that the Commish's penalties covered all of BB's activities not just the NYJ game.
The way BB handled himself shows a man with a clear conscience -- not one with a guilty one. It shows a man with the strength to take ownership of what he did.
Crocodile tears not withstanding, Mangini deserves all the approbrium being visited on him -- not least through his own conscience.
I prefer this Milton quote...
“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”
“There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by readin’. The few who learn by observation.
The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.”
― Will Rogers
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Nice, but frankly Milton flies over my head for the most part.
I prefer,,, ,, someone more earthy?
In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has.