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Pats stuck playing a game they can't win
Regardless of truth, New England's is paying enormous price for Spygate
By Tom Curran
NBCSports.com
updated 2 hours, 59 minutes ago
It’s still too early for the Patriots and their fans to do victory laps.
Even though sticky-fingered Matt Walsh didn’t cough up a videotape of the St. Louis Rams pre-Super Bowl XXXVI walkthrough (an event that Fox’ John Czarnecki attended and called “the most disorganized one ever assembled” that doesn’t mean A) it wasn’t taped or B) Walsh won’t testify that it was when he meets with Roger Goodell on Tuesday.
Maybe it was taped. Maybe it was simply monitored. Maybe the words, “We should have taped that” that a Patriots employee reportedly uttered after the walkthrough morphed into “We taped that.” Maybe Walsh – who seems every bit the rogue employee the Pats have painted – thought it would be a cool souvenir to pop in the VCR when the party got dull. Surely, Bill Belichick knew nothing about it because – for all his real and perceived flaws – he’s not stupid and declaring as forcefully as he has that there was no taping of the walkthrough if he authorized it would be the height of stupidity.
The real issue is that the presence or absence of a walkthrough tape no longer matters. The damage to the Patriots “brand” has long since been done. The price exacted has gone way beyond the first-round pick and $750,000 fine levied by Roger Goodell back in September.
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