It's called qualified respect, and while I enjoyed the article and appreciate the respect, NO other team in the league, including the dozen or more who have been caught cheating more often than the Pats., have to deal with those qualification about being on the edge.
BTW- whenever you are involved with a hater who plays the spygate card, ask them directly, "what exactly did the Patriots do to gain an unfair advantage?"
The response will be something like, "they were caught taping a walk thru" or "they were caught stealing signals". We know that neither of these things are true. 99% of the haters don't know a thing about spygate. Most importantly they don't know that spygate had nothing to do with cheating. Even the arch-******* Roger Goodell put it on record......ONCE.
It is your obligation as a Pats fan to educate the easily manipulated. They won't want to hear it, but they can't dispute it, because its the truth.