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Mike asked Jimmy if he stole signals, Jimmy laughed and said of course he did as did everyone else who wanted to gain an edge.
I gotta give you a star for this post, its good. :rocker:One of the most misrepresented facts about this issue is this "memo" that Goodell sent out. It was sent out Sept 6, 2006- last season, not this season. And all last season, Goodell never acted on it. Why should BB believe the newbie commish was suddenly going to take this non-issue seriously when it had been going on for 20+ years without league control or intervention? This was the biggest joke in league history, and I blame Goodell for being incompetent. He should have fined the Jets for leaking league business to the press, and sent out another of his "memos". Instead he caved into our hypocritical competitors and almost tarnished a legend by his own incompetence and lack of experience.
Hopefully football historians like Dr Z in si.com will notice this and dig further instead of just talking up the old time football as if it never happened before.
Talking abt pats he said BB came down to florida this summer and they went fishing and JJ asked BB that everyone thinks you guys are very good and a SB team and BB replies "Jimmy, I THINK we are good " ...
"What kills me is how everyone took this holier-than-thou attitude, as if no one knew about anything. The Patriots were particularly outrageous, but everyone in the league bends the rules, from stealing signals to something a lot more meaningful, and that is contacting free agents and getting them all wrapped up before the allowable period begins. We all do that. You have to survive competitively. Yes, even the most saintly of coaches and GMs, the ones who command the highest respect, are guilty.
A reminder went around during the 2007 offseason.
(http://wgr550.com/bills/fullstory.php?id=2650).In a memo to NFL head coaches and general managers on September 6, 2006, NFL Executive Vice President of Football Operations Ray Anderson said, “Videotaping of any type, including but not limited to taping of an opponent’s offensive or defensive signals, is prohibited on the sidelines, in the coaches’ booth, in the locker room, or at any other locations accessible to club staff members during the game.”
On Sept. 6, three days before this year's opener against the Jets, the NFL sent a memo to head coaches and general managers. In it, Ray Anderson, the league's executive vice president of football operations, wrote: "Videotaping of any type, including but not limited to taping of an opponent's offensive or defensive signals, is prohibited on the sidelines, in the coaches' booth, in the locker room, or at any other locations accessible to club staff members during the game.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/peter_king/09/19/mob.mentality0924/index.htmlIt may seem absurd to think that if Belichick was blatantly violating an NFL rule -- one reenforced by two NFL memos in the last year -- the Jets should have ignored it. But last year the Lions and the Packers caught the Patriots taping and simply told them to stop without informing the league. Unlike New York, they followed the coaching fraternity's antisnitching code.
Let's start first with the suspension. According to one GM, a league memo was issued before this season reminding clubs not to indulge in the kind of unethical behavior in front of us now. As one team president said, the league must have issued it because it knew something was going on.
Are you positive the "2006" wasn't a typo? Stranger things have happened, but I find it amazing that so many people would get that detail wrong.I believe you are under a misimpression due to intentionally misleading reporting, primarily from ESPN. Reviewing the NFL's statement following the Patriots' punishment...
NFL version:
(http://wgr550.com/bills/fullstory.php?id=2650).
As you can see, no reference is made to this season whatsoever. The confusion arose due to cleverly misleading reports on ESPN, manipulated to cast the Pats' "violation" in a more egregious light. For example:
ESPN version:
(http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3024271&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines)
Do you see how ESPN deliberately manipulated the dates to make the Pats' violation seem more egregious to a careless reader? And how people around the country have jumped on this false information as true? If the NFL sent this "memo" out last season, and did zero to enforce it all year, why should BB, who has witnessed the same practices going on unimpeded throughout the NFL for 30 years, believe this PR goon was going to rob him of a 1st rd pick? It's totally ludicrous, and demonstrates the degree to which Goodell crumbled in the face of a Jet-induced media firestorm, the first crisis of his tenure which called for a cool head, a spinal column and a scrotum. Goodell spit the bit, earning the lifelong epithet of Doofus in Chief.
It wouldn't surprise me if a statement comes out later this year that he's reconsidered the punishment and decided to take a 3rd or lesser round pick instead. Comments like Jimmy's will show that what BB did was not as outrageous (and unique) as initially thought (and magnified by the haters) and I don't think Jimmy will be the last to say such things.
Oh yeah, and if the Colts were taping, tell me that you would have just wanted the league to send out another memo and not take any action. C'monn, can you say it without laughing?One of the most misrepresented facts about this issue is this "memo" that Goodell sent out. It was sent out Sept 6, 2006- last season, not this season. And all last season, Goodell never acted on it. Why should BB believe the newbie commish was suddenly going to take this non-issue seriously when it had been going on for 20+ years without league control or intervention? This was the biggest joke in league history, and I blame Goodell for being incompetent. He should have fined the Jets for leaking league business to the press, and sent out another of his "memos". Instead he caved into our hypocritical competitors and almost tarnished a legend by his own incompetence and lack of experience.