NFL's mouthpiece (ESPN) at it again with OTL piece on cameragate

[the Patriot]

On Mike & Mike right now, ESPN is previewing an Outside The Lines documentary on spygate. From what they have said so far, they are saying that owners felt Goodell went too easy on the Patriots back in 2007. The deflategate investigation was supposedly so big because others felt the league did not investigate the Pats thoroughly enough in '07. They are alleging that the Patriots were using information from previous videotaping during games, and that other owners privately were upset at Goodell. Also supposedly the other owners were upset that they were left out in the dark about what happened.

Okay, suppose they didn't. In this deflategate saga the league paid a professional investigator millions of dollars to come into Foxboro and catch the Patriots cheating. They looked at all the surveillance footage, they looked at all the phones of the equipment people and some of the coaching staff (including Belichick's, if I heard right), they looked at all the team emails (including 10,000 of Brady's emails), they conducted however many interviews, their investigation was so thorough that they caught a league employee stealing charity footballs, and what did they find on the Pats? A couple of text messages that have led many to conclude that the ball boys were letting air out of the footballs. Some culture of cheating right there...

 

[The Gr8est]

Hopefully there will be some in the media who will make the connection between the NFL* getting a black eye last week and the release of this hit piece and do some investigations that they didn't do before.

For example, did Roger ever find out how Jay Glazer got a copy of the tapes?

Media, DO YOUR JOB!!!

 

[SVN]

ESPN is just milking the story. They had their investigative unit with Mike fish spend entire season looking for a rams tape and failed and now are trying to smear the patriots before the season opener. Just disgusted with this whole thing.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

Patriots strong response:

 

[Froob]

We should load Florio's box with request for a real spygate story.
[email protected]

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

some choose to believe in myths, conjectures, and rumors...

 

[Oswlek]

Pat's response

I don't see anything. Is there something wonky with my browser or are people making a joke that I'm not getting?

 

[FrodoBagginz]

Pat's response

7 Years too late.

 

[dales804]

I can't wait until NE wins by about 28 Thursday night.

 

[Cramden]

Goodell now denies that the league asked the Pats to suspend both employees. Stated absolutely not when Golic asked him. They just keep raising the stakes.

 

[SHOWTIME15]

19-0 here we come

 

[Rob0729]

Here is the OTL piece:

http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13533995/split-nfl-new-england-patriots-apart

 

[shmessy]

The smear campaign will never end.

 

[reflexblue]

I'm sick of ESPN and going to boycott the network. Their shows suck, they're pouring a lot of money into soccer which i don't care about and they don't carry hockey. Goodbye ESPN

you mean youu haven't already done that?

 

[condon84]

you mean youu haven't already done that?

Every Pats fan should have stopped watching ESPN (outside of actual games) after 2007.

 

[SVN]

just taken the joy out of enjoying the game...and look at how he says it

Seth Wickersham ‏@SethWickersham 48m48 minutes ago
Fans have asked: Why is Brady being smeared over footballs? @DVNJr and I investigated it, and it goes back to 2007 http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13533995/split-nfl-new-england-patriots-apart…

 

[aluminum seats]

Bruschi and Reiss please quit this shameful organization.

I understand the impulse, but it would be a hollow gesture.

What they should do is stay there and speak their minds as aggressively as possible, and if they happen to get fired then so be it.

 

[Gumby]

I can't wait until NE wins by about 28 Thursday night.

This. BB has got to be fuming too.

I think they should run that 10 sec clip from BB's deflategate presser when he said 'we didn't film anything that 80,000 people in the stadium weren't watching' on the Gillette jumbotron over-over-over until the play-by-play guys finally address it.

 

[ivanvamp]

Recall this Jimmy Johnson interview when Spygate broke:

JJ: Oh please. I’ve said it on our show. Eighteen years ago a scout for the Chiefs told me what they did, and he said what you need to do is just take your camera and you go and zoom in on the signal caller and that way you can sync it up. The problem is that if they’re not on the press box side you can’t do it from the press box, you have to do it from the sideline. This was 18 years ago.

Q: You think the NFL came down too hard on them?

JJ: No, no, I said it on the show. He was wrong for doing it for the simple reason that the league knew this was going on not just in New England but around the league. And the league sent out the memorandum to all of the teams saying you cannot do this. And so that’s when Bill Belichick was wrong. After he got the memorandum saying don’t do it any more, he did it.

Q: Did you ever steal signals?

JJ: Oh in a heartbeat, yeah. Yes I did.

 

[SVN]

https://twitter.com/CharlesRobinson/status/641248132609802240