Something Strange Going On With Easterbrook
 

Seriously, he's more consumed with this than the most rabid Jets/Chargers/etc. fan. There's something else at work here--a personal motivation re Belichick, or Kraft, or something. But he's borderline hysterical about it.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2...5&sportCat=nfl

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I almost never miss a TMQ column and have always felt that he was a bit of a Patriot fan himself....but after last weeks column....I was shocked. He really has hatred for us now.....

And I say this even before I read his column this week....Reading BTL on your post I'm guessing he's taken it to another level...

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Isn't it obvious?

Last week, his stupid coulumn got more views and publicity than it ever has.

The guy must've been beside himself with all the attention he got.

Now he's just milking it for more.

He found the pot o' gold. THE BORGES FORMULA!!!!!!

If I piss people off by writing dumb inflammatory stuff, I will get the attention I so crave. :bricks:

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I have no idea where you'd get that. Easterbrook has had an ax to grind against the Pats for years. His comments, especially during the SB runs, were peppered with references to luck and beneficial calls/non-calls. Conversely, in several years of reading him, I don't remember him even once mentioning that the Pats got hosed on a call. During the 21-game streak, he was begging for someone, anyone, to beat them.

Now he just sounds like an idiot. I used to think he was relatively well-reasoned, but lately he's coming off as a joke.

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Can someone summarize? I also used to be a big TMQ fan but now I refuse to read it. Thanks.

Re: Something Strange Going On With Easterbrook
 

Pats cheated
NFL covered up
Pats cheated
NFL covered up
Pats cheated
Romeo et. al. suck as coaches 'cause they lost the benefit of BB's cheating
Pats cheated

The guy writes for the agenda obsessed, fact hating New Republic, 'nuff said

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I just read this week's TMQ, and I can say is, "Wow." He really thinks he's Bob Woodward-esque.

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Just a lot of tinfoil-hat conspiracy stuff about the tapes the Pats turned over. Why were they destroyed? What took so long to turn them over? Was there footage of the grassy knoll on them? etc. etc.

Come to think of it, I think he's one of those guys that Watergate made such an impression on he gets all excited about the idea of conspiracies. Good you're not reading it, actually--keep his traffic down.

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After Aiello twice declined to say what the Patriots' materials showed, I heard from him a third time Sunday. He wrote in an e-mail that my assumption the tapes contained indications of Super Bowl cheating is "wrong," then wrote, "There is no such evidence regarding the Patriots' Super Bowl victories." So, is this the denial that I've been seeking? But wait: Three days earlier, the NFL destroyed the evidence. I asked Aiello whether he meant there is no evidence now of New England cheating in a Super Bowl -- that is, after the destruction of the files -- or whether examination of the materials positively affirmed no cheating. He did not reply.

He goes on and on about the "non-denial denial" while glossing over the part I bolded, you know, the flat-out denial.

Re: Something Strange Going On With Easterbrook
 

Ok.

I have a thought on this matter.

Easterbrook is saying something fishy is going on with the destruction of the evidence the Patriots sent to the league office. He says that there is a possiblity that the Patriots may have cheated in their SB victories. It is complete SPECULATION.

I think the league was publicly embarrased by FOX Sports playing the tape they confiscated from the Patriots the same week they recieved it. A clear indication that someone from the league office had leaked it.

So if the Patriots had threatened with a lawsuit against the league for leaking evidence to the press (air-tight proof), perhaps Goodell viewed the new evidence and found it to be more of the same (as the Jets tape) and in an attempt to avoid more embarrasment and potential lawsuits, ordered them to be destroyed so that this time he could guarentee no leaking of tapes to the press......And in return...the Patriots drop thier lawsuit against the league.

Thoughts?