Matt Walsh/Globe story today

[PatsFanSince74]

What? BB has already said he has never authorized or has even seen such a tape. If this moron taped it himself w/o any authorization, how can you say "it's all over for the Patriots."?

and i've got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. if he has a tape, no people outside of this board and other true pats fans, especially the mediots, are going to think that it wasn't authorized, if only via a wink and a nod. we just have to hope that he doesn't have a tape.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

Well, you ignore another, entirely plausible scenario.

After Walsh and his representatives succeed in the current round of negotiations, Walsh still exhibits reticence in his dealings with both the league and Arlen Specter.

This is too much for the Senator, who leans on Goodell to extract even more blood from this stone that is the Patriots' public crucification. Since Goodell's options here are limited to slim and none, this pushes the good Senator over the edge, demanding that his his committee give blanket immunity to Walsh, which then prompts the desired outflow of verbal diarrhea from this cretin, giving both the Senator and the public a long litany of rubbish allegations, almost none of which are true.

A trash tabloid's wet dream has come true.

Over time, of course, what Walsh has said will be invariably refuted by any number of sources, but the damage will have been done. In the Senator's quest for yet another "magic bullet", he will have cast aspersions on the Patriot's good name that can never fully be recovered, or compensation adequately proposed that would rectify the situation to at least some degree.

Not that he would care....

unfortunately, you're not too far off base. and your scenario becomes even more sadly plausible now that the civil suit has been dropped. specter said he wasn't holding hearings because walsh would be deposed under oath in the civil suit and that was enough for him. now that there is no civil suit, there is no deposition. specter could grant him full immunity from anything but perjury and allow him to testify.

 

[PatsFanSince74]

I know it wasn't your intent, but you hit upon a key point. In order to further his own interests, why wouldn't he put a small clip of the Rams walkthrough on youtube? He could do it completely anonymously. Specter would flip and the league would be under so much pressure he could demand whatever he wanted. Nobody would be able to link him to the youtube clip so he wouldn't put himself in any jeopardy before getting legal protection.

So why wouldn't he do this? Three options:
a) He has nothing that we don't already know about
b) He is an idiot
c) All of the above

great point. the only flaw in your logic is that if prosecutors get involved and especially if a senate committee gets involved, anybody can be linked to anything and they would get the subpoenas and search warrants to find out who posted the clip or link.

 

[ctpatsfan77]

and i've got a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn. if he has a tape, no people outside of this board and other true pats fans, especially the mediots, are going to think that it wasn't authorized, if only via a wink and a nod. we just have to hope that he doesn't have a tape.

BTW--don't forget that the Pats have some leverage over the Commissioner's office as well: it was the Krafts who basically brokered the last CBA deal. Given that there are rumblings that the owners want to opt out of the current CBA, why should the Patriots keep feeding the hand that bit them? [I really do think that if the Krafts come out against the CBA for whatever reason, the owners will follow suit.]

 

[Clonamery]

great point. the only flaw in your logic is that if prosecutors get involved and especially if a senate committee gets involved, anybody can be linked to anything and they would get the subpoenas and search warrants to find out who posted the clip or link.

Man, step away from the gun.......