Now that the NFL’s version of the three-hour-plus meeting between Commissioner Roger Goodell and former Pats employee Matt Walsh has been fully disseminated and digested, the sports media has shifted back into neutral as they wait for word from Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) regarding the outcome of his own meeting with Walsh.
We’ve got a feeling that Specter’s version of Walsh’s comments won’t sound as rosy for the Pats as did the statements of Goodell.
The tiebreaker in this regard would then be Walsh himself, who presumably will share with the media some of the things that he said and/or didn’t say.
We’re not saying that Walsh won’t corroborate everything that Goodell says that Walsh said. But we need to keep in mind that, for now, we’ve only heard Goodell’s version of what Walsh said. We’ll eventually hear Specter’s version and, most importantly, Walsh himself.
And here’s the kicker. NFL spokesman Greg Aiello tells us that the session with Walsh was neither audiotaped nor videotaped. This means that, if a discrepancy emerges regarding the contents of Walsh’s comments, the only evidence in that regard will be the recollections of the persons who attended the meeting, as supplemented by any notes they might have taken.
