OT: Will the league do anything about the blatant tampering going on

PatsWickedPissah said:

Who here believes this?

The league set themselves up for this when they ignored Johnson's blatant public tampering.

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I also believe that addressing this will wratchet up the sanctions for tampering with players who are actually under contract.

I think since McCourty signed with the Pats and it was Jacksonville with highest bid and Philly coming in second that the league will do nothing about Johnson's blantant tampering.

I don't think that's right but it is what I think will happen.

Here's how the league investigation report will go:

"The league has contacted and found out that 31 out of 32 teams have violated the rules of the legal tampering period. Only New England was found to have complied with the rules, as a result the Patriots will be docked their 2015 first round draft pick and will be forced to pay $500,000."

Brewskies said:

I think since McCourty signed with the Pats and it was Jacksonville with highest bid and Philly coming in second that the league will do nothing about Johnson's blantant tampering.

I don't think that's right but it is what I think will happen.

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What does McCourty have to do with the Jets tampering with Revis?

Ivan said:

What does McCourty have to do with the Jets tampering with Revis?

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You are so right, I lost my head, sorry.

As long as nothing has been signed it's still 'negotiating'. Teams, agents, reporters, etc. can announce whatever they want on twitter, until it's a binding agreement the negotiation is not complete.

I was thinking of this. The one positive from all of this could be that Goodell may look to make an example of the Jets for their pending tampering charge to show that he isn't going to take tampering lightly. If he really is upset with all the tampering, he will want to show that he doesn't take tampering lightly.

I don't like that he is a reactionary commissioner and I don't like to see him to make rash punishments based on overreactions whether it was the Pats with Spygate or the Jets with tampering. But I know I am in the minority when it comes to the Jets and a lot of Pats fans want to see the Jets hang for tampering with Revis and were upset that the league haven't reacted. If Goodell is truly upset about all the blatant tampering going on, Pats fans may ultimately be happy that he hasn't ruled.

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Koma said: ↑
Notice how the "The League is Unhappy" story only came out after the Patriots re-signed a player. Coincidence?

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FreeTedWilliams said:

Technically the Pats resigned one of their own players, so its not even tampering legal or otherwise. If the Pats had reached an agreement with a player from another team, then Tampergate would have been born!

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My understanding of Koma's point was that once DMac had re-signed with Patriots; that the 'conspiracy-theory plot to mess with the Patriots top FA guys' had proved fruitless; so therefore it was time to re-enforce the rule.

Not that he was trying to say the Patriots signing was a violation of tampering (that is impossible as you said for your own FAs).

Looks like the Dolphins are nervous that they are going to get slammed by the league for tampering with Suh:

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/dolp...s-likely-being-investigated-for-suh-deal.html

Of course, the Herald uses the "everyone does it" excuse (funny, how everyone thinks that is a BS excuse for cheating when other teams use it, but it is always the first thing people pull when their team is accused of cheating).

Perhaps the league will clarify or even tweak the language.

Personally, I'm fine with the practice as it is. It is almost USELESS to have a legal tampering period with contract teams being discussed. Free agency has been extended by three days. Perhaps everyone would feel differently if no contracts could be final for the first three days of free agency.

The three day period is very useful to everyone. The McCourty situation is a good example. The teams have months of exclusive discussions with the players. For three days, other teams can talk to the players, with no contract being final. And then free agency begins. I like this process a lot.

And make NO mistake, the contracts are not final. It is good that Gore is not likely to go to PHI. Note that the announcements by players actually have a positive role to play. Other teams can step their efforts, including the player's current team.

The jets should be fined. As an aside, if anyone making decisions for the patriots actually thought that no team was interested in paying Revis serious money, that person should be fired. No one knows, even now, how much the jets are willing to pay or how much another team might pay. What folks do know is that Revis likes NY and the jets, and always has. And the feeling is mutual.

So, my vote is to tweak the language and to keep the process.

The right thing to do would be penalize the teams with pick swaps and what now and void the contracts of the players and make them enelgible to sign with the tampering team (suh can't sign with dolphins but can with other 31 teams for example).

Adam Schefter ‏@AdamSchefter 18s18 seconds ago
NFL sent memos to specific teams today, telling them to hold on to phone records; investigating agreements announced in three-day window.

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LMBO

Schefter:
NFL sent memos to specific teams today, telling them to hold on to phone records; investigating agreements announced in three-day window.

#NegotiateGate?

What if the team execs have "private" email servers unknown to the NFL?

Or they pull the "My hard disk crashed and all the backups have been lost!"

We know these BS tactics work.

Rob, you have to be kidding...you think Spygate and Tampergate cancel each other out and it's just Goodell being reactionary? Do you DENY the existence of Kensil or what? What do you have to SEE with your own two eyes and hear with your ears before you put 2 and 2 together? Do you actually believe that all the drama created in the weeks before the Super Bowl over this preposterous "inflationgate" nonsense was just a "reactionary response" by Kensil and Goodell?

I have to laugh at how Miami waited until today to actually have Suh officially sign his contract, like a 24 hour delay gives the team some sort of cover from potential tampering charges.

The problem wasn't going to be that Suh signed his contract at 4:01 PM on March 10th, it was that the terms of the agreement were reported on Saturday. Waiting an extra day to actually sign the contract doesn't change that.

Goodell is too busy having a 5 hour conversation with Jameis Winston.

How long has it been since the Pats complained about the Jets tampering with Revis and not a word has come out concerning what I am positive is a through investigation (LOL). Now the NFL (Jets alumni club)office is concerned about tampering in the legal tampering period.

PatsWickedPissah said:

What if the team execs have "private" email servers unknown to the NFL?

Or they pull the "My hard disk crashed and all the backups have been lost!"

We know these BS tactics work.

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Only the gullible would fall for that...oh wait, that's most of the media.