PromisedLand
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Read the sentence AFTER the one you highlighted. I specifically said, "I still want him to be our coach and I will still support him."Since I've been on this board I have thought of you as a good and loyal Patriot fan.
But I must say that sentence that I bolded smacks of blantant disloyalty. I don't know how you can rush to judgement that way. You,like I, know so very little of the facts right now.
Yet you ready to dump the man who built this dynasty down the toilet on the basis of what? Media fenzy? Patriot haters distorting things?
If you read my thread you will see that I said that BB did violate NFL rules. I said that there should be penalties.
But IMO, you go way too far. I cannot for the life of me figure out how some fans can be so disloyal.
But I don't think this is an issue of loyalty to Bill Belichick. He is not my family. He is not the Patriots, any more than Richard Nixon was the United States. Both were entrusted with a responsibility. Those who called for Nixon's resignation were just as patriotic as those who supported him. Please don't impugn my loyalty to the institution that is the Patriots because I think Belichick did something wrong.
In another thread someone compared this to the way you feel when a child does something wrong. You don't stop loving the child, but you do feel disappointed in their behavior. I don't know if that's a perfectly valid comparision, because you NEVER stop loving a child (at least most people don't) no matter what they do. My support for Bill Belichick is NOT absolute - nor do I think it is appropriate for it to be. There are certainly things he could hypothetically do which would make me wish he was gone. For me, videogate doesn't rise to that level. But again, there is no reason for you to question my loyalty just because I disapprove of what he did, or is alleged to have done.
And here's another thing: he is a very smart man, and he should realize that in his position, even the APPEARANCE of impropriety can be as damaging as actual impropriety. If he didn't know that before he should have learned it from his well-publicized involvement with that woman who used to work for the Giants. When you are in a position like his, you need to be concerned that what you do may APPEAR inappropriate, even if it isn't. He may have some perfectly valid explanation of the video (although with what we know right now it is hard to imagine what it might be), but given the previous suspicions about the taping and the league's memo, if there was any doubt at all that the taping might be seen as improper, maybe he should have asked the commissioner about his "interpretation" first.
You do raise one valid point, but it applies to everyone discussing this issue here and on TV and the internet as much as it does to me, and that is that we don't know all the facts yet. So I will add this: all of what I have said is predicated on the assumption that BB did in fact knowingly violate league policy. I don't know why he would issue an apology if he didn't think he had so done, but until we know all the facts none of us are sure of that. But that won't stop everyone from talking about it, and it won't stop lots of people, including Shawn Alexander, from questioning whether we were cheating when we won all our Super Bowls.