Spygate 2 penalties announced.

[XLIX]

As per Schefter:

$1.1 million in club fines.
Loss of 2021 third-round pick.
Patriots’ TV crews not allowed to shoot games during 2020 season.

A very slow day just got very busy!!!

 

[Le Numéro Douze]

Kinda severe for a non-issue...

 

[203Pat]

Kangaroo Court strikes again.

 

[farn]

100% stupid.

Having said that : moving on and losing a third rounder (they always have extras due to supplementary) isn’t the worst case scenario.

League said « sign Kap and we’ll drop it »
BB « tell you what, we’ll sign Cam and you can take a third. »

 

[sb1]

Cam for a 3rd round pick basically. Eh.

The other two are on Kraft and I could care less.

 

[Tottie]

I have to say I'm getting pretty tired of the NFL. This was a lay up and still they couldn't get it right.

 

[Ras-IR Dowling]

Total BS penalty but could’ve been worse. I’d hate to lose another 1st especially if we don’t do so well this year.

 

[sb1]

The 3rd rounder is ridiculous but if the Bengals were as angry as they are reportedly were- and some other teams were too- then the league wasn’t going to do nothing. The other stuff are Kraft penalties. This is basically an admission the investigation concurred with the Pats side of the story. If it didn’t we would need a new coach and lose a lot more than this. This is not cheating and the NFL agreed.

Pretty stupid thing to point a camera anyway at the sidelines with their history. Hopefully they learned their lesson.

 

[Froob]

********

 

[archstanton543]

So, basically, the Pats need to get everything right 100% of the time even when a supposed infraction wasn't by the football ops part of their organization. No wiggle room for honest mistakes. Good to know.

 

[signbabybrady]

 

[Mack Herron]

 

[dannydyn]

This team just can't get out of their own way.

 

[NE_Zealot]

Kraft never fights anything, old news. Couldn’t care less about punishments. People made up their minds about the Pats years ago.

 

[Sciz]

While the fine is rightfully higher than the draft pick (relative to other punishments that included both), there's a long list of blatant attempts to gain real advantages in actual football games that were punished with less than a third round pick.

 

[archstanton543]

This team just can't get out of their own way.

Yeah, some contractors made a mistake in front of a bunch of people over a decade after their last supposed "filming" infraction. Yeah, the Pats sure do run a loosey-goosey operation over there.

 

[scott99]

Just glad it’s over. The penalties are complete ********, but glad it’s over.

 

[NE_Zealot]

The 3rd rounder is ridiculous but if the Bengals were as angry as they are reportedly were- and some other teams were too- then the league wasn’t going to do nothing. The other stuff are Kraft penalties. This is basically an admission the investigation concurred with the Pats side of the story. If it didn’t we would need a new coach and lose a lot more than this. This is not cheating and the NFL agreed.

Pretty stupid thing to point a camera anyway at the sidelines with their history. Hopefully they learned their lesson.

They didn’t learn a damn thing from 2007 it appears.

 

[Patstopia]

FU NFL

 

[cardiak]

The NFL has taken away 19 draft picks away from teams since 1980. 5 of those 19 picks (26%) were from the Patriots. No team other then the Patriots have lost a 1st round pick (we lost 2)

First round draft pick (spygate)
First round draft pick (deflate gate)
Third round draft pick (injury report fibbing)
Third round draft pick (tv crew filming)
Fourth round Draft pick (deflate gate)

Now compare a team like the Broncos who were caught paying both Terrel Davis and John Elway millions under the table to circumvent the salary cap and win back to back superbowls and their punishment??.... A 2nd round pick

NFL has it out for the Pats