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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.Walsh wants to cash in while the window of opportunity is still open. He wants to write a book but can't since the Patriots can sue to stop him. The NFL/Pats will only grant him immunity to talk to Goodell and Specter and he must return all materials (with a signed deposition that there aren't any more). Walsh wants blanket immunity.
If Walsh wanted to give his information and material to the NFL, he can do that under the NFL agreement with no risk to himself. However, that agreement wouldn't allow him to write a book or peddle his story to the news organizations.
The provision about being truthful is a smoke screen. Nobody gives blanket immunity without a provision for false testimony. The key provision is the one that restricts covered testimony to Goodell and Specter. That completely prevents Walsh from making money on what he knows.
Nobody willingly injects themself into a legal minefield without a very good reason. Nobility? Please. Revenge? He could have done it 4 years ago. Profit? Now you're talking...
this whole thing is being engineered by the NFL to stop the Pats.
No I don't think so. The why now? question is important. I know the idiots from Profootballtalk knew about this back in September since they posted about a coming bombshell about the Rams SB. Obviously Walsh has this tape and leaked the info about it when Spygate broke, but he couldn't do anything at the time because the NFL and the Pats would sue his a**. That's why these interested parties (the slimebag media and Walsh) acted behind the scenes to drag Spectre into it so that there would be pressure to grant him immunity, but he wasn't about to make a fool of himself until the time was right. Spectre can hold all the hearings he wants on this issue, but even he can only grant Walsh immunity from criminal prosecution and even then Walsh would likely have to agree to tell the truth in a sworn deposition. That is not going to protect him from civil liabilities from the Pats.
I agree with the earlier post, Walsh wants to cash in without the threat of legal recrimination. Spectre is pressuring the NFL to give Walsh what he wants but so far the NFL as not budged.
the football gods punish us with every spygate thread
Here's an article on the timing of spygate II
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...t&lid=tab1pos1
The article was talking about the timing, and how it was being questioned. This reporter was saying that the NFL and Press knew about Walsh this entire time. The reporter actually said he had been in touch with Walsh, and seen him numerous times over the course of the season about the issue at hand, as had many other news agencies. He said the issue was that Goodell had made himself unavailable to the press since spygate broke. The first time he was directly available to the press was during the Pre-Superbowl press days.
Apparently the media has been sitting on this because Walsh obviously won't talk without protection, and Goodell has been hiding away for the duration of the season. Once they were able to talk to him during press conferences, they started prodding him about it, and that's why the story broke on the Eve of the SuperBowl.
I was wondering about the timing myself, and found that article interesting.
I'd argue it's trying to read a topical thread to maybe gain some information haven't seen and being forced to see countless "another spygate thread" nonsense bandwidth wasting thread from you *****ing about something you have total control over seeing or not seeing.
If you don't friggin like it, don't open the thread. Otherwise, stfu.
Seriously--it's fraying my last nerve.
I open the spygate threads because I'm interested. By the same standard, you could NOT OPEN THE DAMN THINGS. Then you'd have zero to ***** about.
Why now? Because the Boston Herald (Tomase) decided the time was right to drop a bomb and spoil everyone's fun. No other reason.