ESPN is at it again

[Fencer]

From The Mag: For the Patriots, winning is business, not revenge

From 2000 to '07, Patriots videographers gave tapes of illegally filmed signals to Adams for him to decode

 

[Fencer]

Also false

Belichick once told owner Robert Kraft that Spygate helped them only 1 percent of the time.

And the rest of the paragraph shows that he is relying on the falsehood, rather than on the vaguely similar true quote.

 

[reflexblue]

Notice the timing, right after the NFLPA files their motion.

 

[Jackson 2]

They aren't at it again. They've never stopped. I won't even bother and, for that matter, I won't be bothered by any of it, either. Just doesn't matter to me any longer.

 

[Fencer]

Anyhow, that's in the ESPN year-end Magazine issue. Also in the Magazine is another, totally unobjectionable article, in the classic tradition of drama-focused sportswriting:

From The Mag: How Malcolm Butler made the greatest play in Super Bowl history

Virtually no one will remember it, but on the play right after Kearse's juggling catch, Patriots linebacker Dont'a Hightower makes one of the most underrated tackles in NFL history. Without it, most people wouldn't even know Malcolm Butler's name, and Belichick and Brady would still be chasing a fourth ring.

Seattle lines up in the I-formation and calls a dive play, giving the ball to Marshawn Lynch and asking him to find a hole on the left side of the line. From the beginning, it looks to be perfectly executed. Fullback Will Tukuafu blows open a hole, Lynch cuts toward the end zone, and each of Seattle's linemen has a defender sealed off. But Hightower somehow bench-presses Seahawks tackle Russell Okung off his body, despite the fact that Okung stands 6-foot-5 and weighs 310 pounds. Then Hightower uses his right shoulder to knock Lynch -- the toughest, baddest, meanest running back in all of football -- off his feet at the 1-yard line.

That right shoulder, by the way? Hightower is playing with a torn labrum.

 

[Fencer]

Notice the timing, right after the NFLPA files their motion.

For once, the timing is clearly coincidence.

 

[IcyPatriot]

He's all over the place in that story ...

It's like he's ****ting his pants on his scamper to the toilet.

Do the Patriots pay rent for occupying his brain ... Seth needs a life.

 

[farn]

I just re-watch 'Do your job'. Hightower, BB, and Butler had balls of steel on those last two D plays. Holy. Thank goodness for those guys.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Anyhow, that's in the ESPN year-end Magazine issue. Also in the Magazine is another, totally unobjectionable article, in the classic tradition of drama-focused sportswriting:

From The Mag: How Malcolm Butler made the greatest play in Super Bowl history

Technical Explanation: High is a Bad Mofo...

 

[RobertWeathers]

For once, the timing is clearly coincidence.

I dunna know, Fencer....

It was known that the response was to shred Goody and the league.

This was another story put out there to crap on the team and TB12.

 

[memento]

I don't plan on visiting the link, but I hope it's pointed out filming from the sideline wasn't illegal until 2007.

 

[BradyFTW!]

What ever happened to fact checking?

 

[NJPatsfan26]

Got to continue the narrative somehow

 

[libra957]

Just business as usual for ESPN.

 

[RobertWeathers]

What ever happened to fact checking?

As a matter of principal, they don't agree with it.

 

[blackglass3]

Also false



And the rest of the paragraph shows that he is relying on the falsehood, rather than on the vaguely similar true quote.

That 1% quote is true. I don't remember who wrote the article. Kraft said "How much did vidoetaping help us?" Belichick said 1%. Then Kraft replied with a good natured "Schmuck".

 

[dannydyn]

Oh Geez... not another ESPN whining thread.... when will you fellas gonna learn?!?

 

[lurker1965]

What ever happened to fact checking?

Without competition, why bother? One can argue SI competes with the mag, but the mag is funded by the cable channel. Who competes with the cable channel? Fox? NBC? Find their sports channels.

 

[Fencer]

That 1% quote is true. I don't remember who wrote the article. Kraft said "How much did vidoetaping help us?" Belichick said 1%. Then Kraft replied with a good natured "Schmuck".

You're making the same error he did.

The actual quote referred to a scale from 1 to 100.

 

[Fencer]

I dunna know, Fencer....

It was known that the response was to shred Goody and the league.

This was another story put out there to crap on the team and TB12.

These are excerpts from a specific issue of a paper magazine, recapping the year. The timing of these articles has nothing to do with this week's events.