Maybe my tinfoil hat is too tight, but the resurrection of this story just doesn't add up to me.
During the 2007, while certain media outlets were slobbering over what they considered the greatest sports scandal in the history of human competition, you never heard stories of other teams stealing signals. Maybe one of the Boston media outlets would run something, but the national writers and companies never mentioned it.
For example, in July of '07, Don Banks wrote a story about the different methods of "cheating" in the NFL. The taping of coaching signals was said to be used by several teams. This story was never referenced later, not even by Banks.
Similarly, the stories of the Dolphins use of audio recordings of Brady's audibles and the Jets camera crew being removed from Gillette in 2006 were never picked up nationally in 2007.
In Matt Walsh's interviews with Goodell and Specter, he mentioned that he saw another team doing the same thing he was (Goodell declined to name the team, but Specter said it was the Jets). This information was ignored.
Along those lines, during the lead up to SB 36, there was a story of someone spying on a Patriots practice. This was a non-factor during the Walsh saga.
Now, the Jets do something wrong and, within 4 days of that incident, video of Belichick getting in an opposing player's way on the sideline from 6 years ago shows up. As if this is somehow the equivalent of intentionally tripping an opposing player.
ESPN and the NFLN can find the Belichick video, but they haven't noticed that the Alosi footage shows Rex Ryan watching the whole thing, even though he later claimed he wasn't aware of it at all.
Maybe I just need to get some rest.
