Penalties being considered for the Pats - UPDATED 1/1/2020

Sciz said:

Luckily, there’s a “Do Your Job” of the video department done by the media department to teach people the difference.

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Maybe the guy working in Cincinnati deleted it when someone saw him watching it. Just panicked. Then he had no idea how to do his job.

Franchise12 said:

If you think about it, Bob Kraft has been the biggest troublemaker in the organization this year, even moreso than Antonio Brown.

I predict his Happy ending video will magically leak around playoff time to create more noise and distraction.

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I think Kraft should sign Brown to take the attention away from this. Then sign Kaepernick and have him do daily press conferences. Nobody will be talking about Kraft's sex crime, Spygate II, or Brown. Kap can give daily civil rights lectures and rip the NFL while the rest of the team can focus on football. That would be beautiful.

Sciz said:

Luckily, there’s a “Do Your Job” of the video department done by the media department to teach people the difference.

Do Your Job: Patriots Video Department

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THIS!!!!!

A million times, THIS!

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blackglass3 said:

This BS article is a rehash of the crap report by Van Natta and Wickersham in 07. The entire article was written to reignite the Spygate flames when Brady was told he can play in 2015.

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I like to think that that article was originally prepared with the idea that Brady would lose his case and they could run a “Brady is bad and here’s all the bad stuff the Patriots have done” piece as a slam dunk on the Belichick Patriots. When Brady won his appeal, the article was repurposed to make sure people remembered that the Patriots are very, very bad. Here’s 90 anonymous sources who are all definitely real and don’t have any agendas.

BelichickFan said:

Sounds like it was 8 minutes. Didn't say game minutes or real minutes, read as real minutes. So 8 minutes out of about 180 minutes in a game. Sounds like an eye roll to me.

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Only 8 minutes? b-b-b-but diana russini said Pats filmed the whole 1st quarter

Fatmancryin said:

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This is good. Especially the word “focusing” and not panning back and forth to the scoreboard. Gives the team’s story a lot more credibility.

blackglass3 said:

It doesn't matter what Chatam says, people don't care. One single ESPN person is reporting the Patriots cheated, so they did. This story is growing legs and won't be going away anytime soon.

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Yup

it’s nauseating to deal with at this point. Even if the NFL determines it was nothing, they will let this story sit out there and marinate for awhile to milk it for ratings and to influence public opinion/perception of the Patriots.

perfectly timed to take attention away from the rigged officiating in the Chiefs game and to continue to vilify the Pats so they can increase ratings

Peyton Manning can do HGH, break NFL records and then be outed by an undercover on video and the NFL buried that story for months without a peep until it’s forgotten.

Eli Manning can commit fraud, a felony, by selling bogus merchandise to fans and stealing their money... not a peep from the league, no punishment, no media coverage

Patriots filming a documentary that caught some sideline activity? Media immediately starts to go into scandal mode, manufacturing a story and dragging it out as much as humanly possible to keep it in the news cycle generating clicks.

just look at some other teams message boards, they’ve already reached the conclusion that the Pats are caught cheating again, and are already going down their insane lists of “fair” penalties for the organization (Belichick suspended 1 year, SB titles stripped, pats forfeit from playoffs, loss of multiple 1st round picks, etc)


As silly as these stories are, the media has proven that people will believe whatever they want to believe despite the facts placed right in front of their face. People generally hate the Patriots, so whenever a media outlet runs a story like this they know it’s going to explode and get tons of attention, true or not. The mouth breathing idiots in the public eat it up, calling into talk radio, going to twitter, etc and then the NFL uses the publicity and outrage from mouth breathing, 80 IQ idiots to justify issuing an unprecedented, outrageously draconian penalty... and then everyone says “well, the punishment was harsh but it was just a make up for them getting off “easy” on Spygate”

This is a business model that ESPN seems to use once in awhile to generate more revenue. It’s BS because we as fans then have to deal with another season of non stop media attacks, etc

I’m getting really sick of it

QuantumMechanic said:

Not according to Bill Belichick himself it isn't.

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It isn't now. It was at the time.

They changed the rules after Spygate.

The rule was that you could film from any place with 3 walls.

Fatmancryin said:

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Howe needs to clarify his statement.

NFL Gameday Operations Manual says recording cannot be conducted in the coaches box.

It says nothing about recording in the press box being prohibited.

Hate to split hairs here but it seems that this is where this is heading.

The team needs to be smarter but if we want to be sticklers for rules, let's understand them.

JSO123 said:

Just playing devils advocate. There are no easy games in the NFL. Even if you found a way to “advance scout” in that way every week, you can’t control when you eventually get caught. Again, just playing devils advocate!

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But that ignores the larger point.

Do you construct this whole ruse by hiring outside videographers, who put out several episodes already of "Do Your Job," just for a one time chance to film a team's sidelines, and you choose the Bengals over all the others? After all the work and toil and expense, you pick the Bengals? When you could have easily hired just one person to sit in the stands and film to his hearts' content?

how the hell did that tub of s**t marc bertrand get a radio hosting gig? made the mistake of trying to listen today to humor myself. he's was spinning it like all the Pats beat guys got briefed by the Pats to put out a lie and that lie got called out. How is the Pats admitting they had a film crew at the game in the press box and were ok'd by the browns to be there them lying?

upstater1 said:

But that ignores the larger point.

Do you construct this whole ruse by hiring outside videographers, who put out several episodes already of "Do Your Job," just for a one time chance to film a team's sidelines, and you choose the Bengals over all the others? After all the work and toil and expense, you pick the Bengals? When you could have easily hired just one person to sit in the stands and film to his hearts' content?

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I actually think it is exactly Bill’s M.O. to get some info on the Bengals. He’s probably one of the only coaches who would.

98.5 has pretty much gone to total s*** as a radio station. I rarely listen in the morning because they almost never discuss football

I ran across it this morning and one or 2 guys on that show were THRILLED that the Pats broke some rules. They were talking to Mike Hurley and were getting angry when Mike suggested there would be no punishment if it turns out it was just a film crew for the documentary. They want the Patriots to be punished for this and badly


Why do we have to deal with hatred and vitriol from our own local sports stations? Get these pieces of **** off the air

upstater1 said:

But that ignores the larger point.

Do you construct this whole ruse by hiring outside videographers, who put out several episodes already of "Do Your Job," just for a one time chance to film a team's sidelines, and you choose the Bengals over all the others? After all the work and toil and expense, you pick the Bengals? When you could have easily hired just one person to sit in the stands and film to his hearts' content?

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No kidding! You can just put someone in the stands with a cell phone.

This whole thing is preposterously stupid.

Man a lot of you just don’t fu.cking get how bad this looks and no amount of Matt “Baghdad Bob” Chatham tweets are going to make this all better.

VectorPrime said:

Man a lot of you just don’t fu.cking get how bad this looks and no amount of Matt “Baghdad Bob” Chatham tweets are going to make this all better.

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No body cares about Matt Chatham outside NE...

VectorPrime said:

Man a lot of you just don’t fu.cking get how bad this looks and no amount of Matt “Baghdad Bob” Chatham tweets are going to make this all better.

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Maybe you should just “pass out” until the Super Bowl.

JarOfMayo51 said:

98.5 has pretty much gone to total s*** as a radio station. I rarely listen in the morning because they almost never discuss football

I ran across it this morning and one or 2 guys on that show were THRILLED that the Pats broke some rules. They were talking to Mike Hurley and were getting angry when Mike suggested there would be no punishment if it turns out it was just a film crew for the documentary. They want the Patriots to be punished for this and badly


Why do we have to deal with hatred and vitriol from our own local sports stations? Get these pieces of **** off the air

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Adam Jones had an on-air orgasm last night. Where he once again proclaimed the Pats as one and done in the playoffs. After of course his take of the Bruins being 3rd or 4th best in the Eastern Conference and the Celtics being around a 5th or 6th seed. The radio stations in this market hire people who hate the local teams so it creates controversy. Felger is a Wisconsin sports fan and Mazz is a hardcore closet Yankees Fan. None of this should surprise anyone.