So his logic is because Spygate 1 came with a penalty of a lost 1st rounder, Spygate 2 (repeat offender) would carry a penalty of 2 -1st rounders?
Thats a helluva leap.
It's a hell of a leap considering the genesis of how all of this started:
1. Jets sneak around and tamper for Parcells in 1997, cheating, distracting our team for the SB.
2. Kraft asks to speak and interview BB in 2000. Wish granted, but NY demands a 1st rd pick if BB is offered the gig in NE. Done deal.
3. BB drafts Brady, develops him, builds a dynasty in the Cap Era.
4. Woody Johnson sits there seething knowing he made the wrong choice in Parcells, as old man Parcells was worn out and the game had passed him by, including personnel and GM understanding in a new era.
5. Woody Johnson volunteers to bring in a new commissioner, even though Tagliabue was doing very well, as the NFL shoots by MLB as the most popular sport around. This is where you can see the intent by the Jets and the league, to be able to cheat a team like NE, but do it in such a way that fans won't notice.
6. Woody Johnson does not respect NE, asks to interview a very inexperienced Mangini, after only 1 year as a DC, with mediocre results from the 2005 D. Again this all occurs after NE wins 3 SBs in 4 years.
7. Mangini accepts the role in NY, tries to steal laptops and Pats property, before taking half of BB's staff, against BB's wishes. Mangini is locked out of the building and forever dead to the Pats organization.
8. Mangini divulges BB's approaches as a GM and Coach and Woody Johnson sees to it that his new commissioner of choice, a former Jets employee and Jets fan, Roger Goodell, listens to his sales pitch as to why NE doesn't need anymore help with BB and Brady together for the foreseeable future and how a dominant team in the league is bad for business.
9. Goodell's first order of business on 9.6.06 (no lie, that is the exact date) is to change the wording of the filming rule to actually include filming hand signals, which was the change to the rule.
10. BB reads the memo in 2006, probably smiles knowing WHY it happened, but is also annoyed being targeted due the success of the Pats.
10, Mangini has the balls to ask for 2 filming locations in Foxborough in January 2007 during a playoff game, no less.
11. BB shows in Week 1, after trading for Moss and Welker, adding Seau, and prized FA piece (At the time), Adalius Thomas, with their road video coordinator, out on the sideline as a big FU to the NY Jets and Manboobs.
This is literally why we are here today. An inter-franchise spat between two teams, started by the Jets a decade prior, has now catapulted Goodell into using ways to garner support with teams alongside the Jets, who pile on and want Goodell to do something.
So, he frames the Pats for something more than what was being done, to be able to make sure he can take a 1st rd pick, otherwise people will figure out something is up.
Meanwhile, as obvious as all of this is, the general public is too stupid or doesn't want to see how obvious this is, simply because they just want harm done to NE. The NFL sees millions being left on the table, ratings dropping with NE's continued dominance, making a mockery of the Cap and parity, and here we are.
Absolute and complete mental break downs by very stupid and jealous NFL fans, owners, GMs and coaches everywhere outside of NE with the media happily ready to lie to get clicks on their webpages.
