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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.We all know that the Pats are meticulous. They break down film. They see what the situation is and what a team's tendencies are in those situations. They say, "hey Tom, watch for the MIKE to blitz through the a-gap here." Isn't that what teams SHOULD do?
Countdown until the Colts chime in with a lawsuit claiming that Seyton should have 3 Superbowls based on what the evil Patriots did to his career.
My bad... they wont let you into past archives and my link must be old. Here is another blogger quoting the same LaBatard article: http://thebiglead.com/?p=4477
Apparently, a large majority of fans out there think that no team in the league ever pays attention to game tape, watches the opposing formations, and makes predictions to their own players. The Patriots only knew anything because they were looking at someone's poker hand before the bet. Right.
These people are hopeless...they think that the NFL is sandlot football, with people just winging it out there with no intelligence.
The Panthers story is foolish, ignorant, envious, and buffoonish. They had just as easy a time scoring as we did late in the game...we just had the ball last. So what does that say about the Panthers?
I Was made aware of an interesting comment by Dan LeBatard, the ESPN talk show host out of Miami who is also a columnist for the Miami Herald. In his Q&A forum in the Herald someone asks him the question below. The tail end of his response (in bold), which gets into the cheating of the Patriots mentions Doug Flutie and his alleged knowledge of it while he played there in the final year of his career in 2005. It's all hearsay I guess so take it for what it's worth.
Q: Doesn't Arlen Specter & the US Senate have more important concerns than how the NFL handles its disciplinary matters? Is this what they need all of that tax money for?
Pete, Lebanon, PA 2/01/08
A: Yes, but if congress is going to be involved in steroids it should be involved in this too....its the same crap....i'll never understand why people make the distinction between steroids and spygate....it is the same thing.....what do you hear with spygate? everyone does it. well, yeah, but same goes for steroids, right? we are now learning that EVERYONE DID IT....and yet steroids creates hysteria and everyone in football talks about spygate being overblown....they won three super bowls by three points...it wouldn't take much of an advantage to be a HUGE advantage....this story have been overcovered but underreported....i've heard second hand about doug flutie being amazed when he got there that the plays were being piped into his helmet warning brady what was coming.....we've tried to talk to flutie on our radio show about it but he hangs up on my producer.....
Dan Le Batard 2/04/08
http://www.realcities.com/mld/miami...3393&mode=display&action=&type=list&pageNo=12
Maybe Flutie hung up on his producers because he doesn't want to entertain conspiracy theory BS.
More conspiracy theory crap has spewed out about the Patriots since this story has broke than about any team in NFL history. Someone should tell LeBatard that the reason why it is unreported is because of two things he said himself - he got the information second hand and Flutie has never admitted to saying that. It would be irresponsible journalism to report hearsea. I guess responsible journalism isn't LeBartard's forte.
I have never seen so many sports media people report unconfirmed rumors and inunendo than with Spygate. Sports pages around the country have become the Nation Equirer of sports.
The thing that bothers me the most about this whole mess:
People make the ridiculous leap that just because you may videotape the signals, you automatically have the signals. That's absurd. Whether or not you can take the tapes and grab the signals in 6 minutes at halftime remains to be seen, but to me it's hard to believe. The coaches have other more important things to worry about.
Also, you can just as easily videotape the same signals from an enclosed area which is completely within the rules. Why BB didn't do that, I don't know, that's probably his biggest error here.
Belichick's interpretation of the rule might have been wrong, but his claim that he never used the tapes during a game is very believable.
Regarding the Panthers or any other game. How do you know the taping wasn't for archival purposes and if the signals were stolen, that they weren't stolen with binoculars and a legal pad?
Doesn't matter Joe........they say we cheated, they think we cheated, they have themselves believing we cheated, they feel better when they think such thoughts and they believe it started the day that BB got here.
They want to think we cheated so they can justify why we are as good as we are, it is as simple as that.
There is only one answer to this whole mess and I now understand exactly where the guy who coined the phrase was coming from:
JUST WIN BABY...............
My respect for BB & the Krafts could not be any STRONGER follwoing all this BS.
And yet people have no appreciation for why the league or this team would insist on the simple terms like "truthful" and "factual" being incorporated into any indemnity agreement with the whack job from Hawaii... It's so that morons like LeBatard and Myers can't fuel the smear campaign mounted against this team based on nothing more than still entirely unconfirmed rumor, inuendo and heresay repetition of rumor and inuendo.
The steroid analogy is just pathetic. That would be like someone saying steroids are only illegal/cheating in football if you inject them rather than ingest them or if you had a trainer inject you rather than a licensed doctor. No, use of steroids is simply illegal and cheating, period. Stealing signs is not cheating or illegal. Neither is videotaping them. Videotaping anything from an unenclosed location in a stadium is illegal, or at least some of the time it is...
As Peter King told Tom Curren when he got him that MSNBC job, a writers job is to write for his audience. (Although Boston writers have historically fashioned their own exemptions, lest we forget, for when their goal is reaching a national audience.) The easiest way for any mediot to fuel ratings is by appealing to the lowest common denominator.
Maybe Flutie hung up on his producers because he doesn't want to entertain conspiracy theory BS.
More conspiracy theory crap has spewed out about the Patriots since this story has broke than about any team in NFL history. Someone should tell LeBatard that the reason why it is unreported is because of two things he said himself - he got the information second hand and Flutie has never admitted to saying that. It would be irresponsible journalism to report hearsea. I guess responsible journalism isn't LeBartard's forte.
I have never seen so many sports media people report unconfirmed rumors and inunendo than with Spygate. Sports pages around the country have become the Nation Equirer of sports.