http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/writers/peter_king/05/11/mmqb/3.html
its clear king keeps calling belichick for cheating anytime he gets a chance purely because he has been shut out for media access. Cant be more obvious.
i wish he read or researched what mike florio did about the offensive signals and what actually goes on the sideline.1. I think this is the odd thing about word that the Patriots were taping the offensive signals from the Miami sidelines as part of the Matt Walsh evidence turned into the NFL: At least 80 percent of the offensive signals from coach to quarterback are relayed through microphone and helmet-speaker. Teams might signal in personnel groups, like three wides/one back, but that's hardly going to give a team a big edge when studying tape of the opposition. Make no mistake -- it's still cheating. And it would bother me if I were Roger Goodell that Bill Belichick never told him about taping offensive signals, if indeed Belichick didn't, and we don't know if he did or didn't.
It'll be interesting if Walsh, in his Tuesday morning meeting with Goodell, has anything beyond the tapes he provided to the league, to disclose. My guess is he'll implicate long-time Belichick aide Ernie Adams, about whom Art Modell once said, "I'll give anyone here $10,000 if they can tell me what Ernie Adams does.'' But that won't be a surprise, because the league already knows he was key in the spy-versus-spy game of deciphering signals.
One other thing about the offensive signals from that Miami game. In the league's announcement of the sanctions last September, the release quoted a 2006 memo from NFL executive vice president of football operations Ray Anderson saying, "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.'' And the first paragraph of the release referred to the fine of $500,000 to Belichick for using video equipment to videotape "an opposing team's offensive or defensive signals.'' So I doubt there are grounds for further penalties because of the offensive tape, even though we'd known solely about defensive tapes before this.
2. I think, unless Walsh has something more powerful than the eight tapes, the Patriots won't be sanctioned further.
its clear king keeps calling belichick for cheating anytime he gets a chance purely because he has been shut out for media access. Cant be more obvious.