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From Tom Curran's story on the NBC Sports Site:
http://www.nbcsports.com/portal/sit...0VgnVCM10000075c1d240RCRD&cpsextcurrchannel=1
Further fallout
If the NFL is going to perform a colonoscopy on the Patriots archives of tapes from past games thanks to Week 1's video transgressions, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell needs to line up all 31 other teams for the same examination.
There was no shortage of coaches and sources saying, "Everybody's doing it, New England just got caught," so if that's the case, this kind of cheating is rampant.
And what you do when cheating is rampant is pull the rug back on the whole operation and make sure that every one of the 32 teams has been operating on the up-and-up.
There's absolutely no doubt that something else is going to be unearthed by Goodell and his men when they launch a deeper investigation.
Bill Belichick's flimsy "misinterpretation" excuse couldn't have meant that he just misinterpreted on Sept. 9. New England is going to be found to have the exact same types of offending video in its archives from past games as well.
What does Goodell do then? Drop a half-million dollar fine on Belichick and dock the Patriots' draft choices for every other game they did the same thing in? Or just lump all prior transgressions in under the penalty handed down last week?
If this is the scandal it's purported to be, then it has to be eradicated. And not by making an example of one team. Goodell can't wave the "integrity of the game" banner and turn a deaf ear to all the whispers that the Patriots weren't the only ones flaunting the rules.
It's hypocritical and, to borrow a phrase from last century, a high-tech lynching.
http://www.nbcsports.com/portal/sit...0VgnVCM10000075c1d240RCRD&cpsextcurrchannel=1