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Is it just me, or do all of you care way more about this than anyone else? Why can't we emulate our coach and our team and just move on and look ahead to next year?
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Is it just me, or do all of you care way more about this than anyone else? Why can't we emulate our coach and our team and just move on and look ahead to next year?
neuro, thanks for the input. I am thinking if John is willing, and if tomorrow brings new emphasis on this claptrap, we should organize the best quotes on a front page, which I'll have to figure out in the next few days, the weekend at the latest.
I haven't contributed to the website so can't comment directly from that end. However, as a fan who has been effected by the 'spygate' proceedings and believes it to be an important issue that should be countered in any way possible, I might as well give an answer.
I've said this previously in numerous other locations, but I believe the biggest penalty, from an historic perspective, has nothing to do with draft picks and fines and everything to do with legacies and perceptions. In thirty years when I want to read about this dynasty, this fantastic collection of football players and football minds, I don't want to have to skip half the book because it's devoted to the witchhunt that is cameragate. I love the history of the game, I love reading about the great players and teams from the past. I absolutely do not want the Patriots legacy over this decade of dominance to be slaughtered because the media decided that Belichick is the devil. As I've said in the past, if this were the Bengals or Cardinals we would have seen a fine and a mid-to-late round pick and very little fanfare. I think the bias is despicable, the outrage is ridiculous and the media's reaction deplorable and defamatory.
I want to remember Brady, Brown, McGinest, Belichick, Law, Bruschi, Harrison and all the rest as they are: champions; and I don't want that memory destroyed, torn apart because of a friggin' rules infraction.
According to Parcells, the 49ers claimed in two different playoff games that their headsets had gone out during their first offensive series. The 49ers and coach Bill Walsh were famous for scripting the first series of every game, so headsets really wouldn't have been helpful to the 49ers during their first series -- quarterback Joe Montana and the entire offense knew exactly which plays to run whether they could hear their coaches' instructions or not.
But claiming their headsets had malfunctioned would give the 49ers a competitive advantage because of the rule that if one team's headsets malfunction, the other team has to stop using its headsets. So, according to Parcells, Walsh could tell the referee that the 49ers' headsets weren't working at the beginning of the game. Then the referee would order Parcells and his staff to take off their headsets, too, and that would give the 49ers an advantage. Then, later in the game, once the 49ers had used all their scripted plays, Walsh would tell the referee the 49ers had gotten their headsets fixed.
Parcells didn't specify which games the 49ers did this in, but he seemed to be referring to the Giants-49ers playoff games after the 1985 and 1986 seasons. The Giants won both of those games
Hey fggsand - keep your eye on the fact that apparently the Commish or his spokespeople have stated that - contrary to the rules and memos they've sent out - taping signals is prohibited regardless of the location.
As you know the rules say otherwise - and don't even come close to prohibiting taping regardless of location.
This could backfire on Goodell in a big way IMO.
The rules are the rules - the Commissioner can't change them on the fly just because he will look bad in public when its discovered that he's allowed signal stealing and videotaping of signals to be legal in the proper location for years and to this day still hasn't changed the rule.
Saying one thing when he knows his own rules say otherwise is just plain dishonest, and puts all teams in a situation where they can no longer assume that the rules are, well, the rules, if Goodell can change them on a whim.
http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-patriots/messageboard/showthread.php?t=82672
In light of Senator Specter's ridiculous press conference, I would LOVE to see a little breakdown of his presser for all to see. Basically, in an unbiased fashion just take every point he makes during the speech and refute it with fact or statements made by Goodell. I haven't had a chance to listen to the press conference so I can't speak directly to the content, but from what I've read on here it was pretty brutal.
I think content like that on your sight might prompt a writer to do a little piece on Specter and the insanity that is his 'investigation'.
Just a thought...once again, fantastic work on the site.
Haha, the fact that it's being called "Cameragate" in the first place is pretty funny in and of itself. Amazing. Not really. It's typical.
Hahaha, right on cue... C'mon, can't ANY of you give me something I DON'T expect?!...as is losing for the NY Jets.
Holy Smokes...I hate the '-gate" suffix. Any chance this whole thing could be called CameraHunt? It's closer to a witch hunt than it is to watergate
It's nice to see someone take a stand against all of the NFL conspiracy nuts out there that will not let this story die (www.tinfoilonmyhead.com). If it's not going to be killed off by a media that seems intent on keeping this story on life support, it's nice to have a resource that is the voice of reason in this debate.
Dude....two words for you:
Wide Right.....
Ouch man, talk about hitting below the belt ...
I was actually in Foxboro last year to watch you guys beat up on the Not-so-Super Chargers week two. Awesome game. With the Bills in the state of disarray that they're in, it was refreshing to watch a fully functional football team take the field. Fans were great too.