Patriots Harrassed by NFL/Jets Over Bugging/Electronics Suspicions - Conflicting Reports

shmessy said:

Joe, in your exuberance you are posting untruths and deflecting everyone from the REAL interesting thing about Matsroddi's history.

1) As noted by n6249c, he was in not in that NYC unit when the **** hit the fan.

2) He did not become Vice President, Security & Facility Operations in 2003.

He became Vice President, Security & Facility Operations in 2006.
New York Jets


Does the year 2006 ring a bell to you? It should. That is the year Mike Kensil left that job at the Jets to become the NFL's Head of Gameday Operations.

Mastroddi is Kensil's successor at the Jets and was literally handed the keys to his job by our man Kensil. He is obviously "option 2" now for Kensil in his campaign to harass the Patriots (since Kensil can no longer get away with personally doing it directly after all the Deflategate attention - hence the two NFL flunkies who were the interrogators and had to call 345 Park Avenue to find out who supplies the refs with their backup batteries).

The truth is incredible enough without all the misinformation taking people away from the real story here.

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shmessy said:

OK, as you can imagine, I am loathe to quote MCI's reporting on anything, but as it turns out, he has had a very interesting new twist in this story fall into his lap (and, evidently, he has it from two direct sources):

Ben Volin | Sunday Football Notebook: NFL trade deadline has possibilities - The Boston Globe

"And as for the in-game questioning of Patriots employees, the Patriots are suspicious that the Jets asked NFL security to get involved, the Jets declined to comment, an NFL source insisted that the Jets had nothing to do with it, and then Pro Football Talk obtained an internal e-mail stating, “Jets security director Robert Mastroddi made an inquiry with NFL security regarding the presence of two individuals wearing headsets and Patriots attire.” Two sources who witnessed it told me they heard a Jets coach say, “We got that [expletive], cheating again.” NFL security found nothing and closed the matter...."

The quote from a Jets coach is SIGNIFICANT.

Todd Bowles publicly stated in his Friday morning presser that he had no knowledge of any sideline drama before, during or after the game last Sunday, claiming that the Jets just "go up there to play football".

If someone on his own coaching staff made the statement that Volin's two direct sources report, then there is no way in hell Todd Bowles did not know about the situation and is a clear and first rate liar.

The Jets and NFL (back and forth SEVERAL times now on whether any team requested the lockerroom debugging - - strangely and actively trying to protect whichever team the NFL is using here) are setting records right now for obfuscation and outright public lying within a 7 day period.

Is anyone in the media going to hold this accountable?

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robertweathers said:

The only thing that shocks me with the content of your post is throwing some props towards MCI.

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robertweathers said:

The only thing that shocks me with the content of your post is throwing some props towards MCI.

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anditsgood said:

broken clock, just because the time is right now, doesn't mean its working

likewise, just because he has a good story doesn't mean hes a journalist

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robertweathers said:

Based on his LinkedIn profile I really don't see how he is remotely qualified to be in the position he currently occupies.

Meanwhile, the Pats Dir of Security has run ops at Wembly Stadium, the Olympics, fought wars, taken down corrupt African governments and received the highest military award the UK has to offer.

Par for the course for the Jests.

What a 1/2 ass operation.

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He stood down in San Francisco for these owners of teams that keep spraying accusations and innuendo at the Patriots for the hell of it?

A commissioner whose staff still has a sympathetic ear ready for every mewling suit with a ready gripe?

A staff that will still go off half-****ed to check out the alleged issue at hand and throw in a quick surveillance trip around the visitor’s locker room to boot?

We’re seven games into the season. After one, the other team’s head coach intimated the Patriots screwed with their radio frequencies. He was wrong. After another, the opposing team’s director of security got the league to crawl all over the Patriots sideline and around their facility looking for something, anything. They found nothing.

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MitchKumstein said:

Why did the NFL source lie when asked if the jest initiated the interrogation of the Patriots employees?

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SVN said:

Rich Hill ‏@PP_Rich_Hill 8m8 minutes ago
You know what affects the public's belief in the integrity of the game? When teams perpetuate unfounded claims.

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shmessy said:

Yeah, I know.

20 minutes later and I 'm still walking around like Sherman:

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SVN said:

Detailing how Jets sparked NFL inquiry of Patriots employees during game

Mike thinks it wouldnt have been a big deal if jets guy knew the rules. This its overall not a big deal either.

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zipster9 said:

There is no doubt in my mind (and many others on this thread) that the NFL is trying to find some REAL proof of any sort of cheating by the Patriots. This is to backup their Deflategate agenda as well as appeasing the other 31 NFL teams.

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shmessy said:

Seriously, is ANYONE keeping a count of how many back-and-forth flip flops the NFL has now made about who requested the debugging sweep of the lockerroom on October 25th?

So the latest is that the NFL is now telling the Patriots that they lied to the public when they stated that the sweep for bugs in the lockerroom was NOT requested by another team and was merely a random procedure.

When does ANYONE (Florio????) actually corner the NFL for a definitive statement here?

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zipster9 said:

There is no doubt in my mind (and many others on this thread) that the NFL is trying to find some REAL proof of any sort of cheating by the Patriots. This is to backup their Deflategate agenda as well as appeasing the other 31 NFL teams.

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