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

[BadMoFo]

This is the one everyone is going to try and blow up:

 

[fair catch fryar]

This is all smoke and mirrors to distract the minions of morons from questioning the hack job by the refs that blew the game for the Pats yesterday.

 

[Kdo5]

Very stupid and foolish if that’s the case.

 

[bormio]

This is going to be bad.

I got a feeling in the pit of my stomach. I hope I am wrong

 

[VectorPrime]

This is all smoke and mirrors to distract the minions of morons from questioning the hack job by the refs that blew the game for the Pats yesterday.

This started yesterday before the Pats game.

 

[shmessy]

Or just brazen pricks

Why do you hate the Patriots?

 

[Kdo5]

This was idiotic. Sure another team can do this and maybe get a fine and stripped a late round pick. But with the Pats the NFL could dock us a high pick.

 

[shmessy]

"The Patriots' videographer set his tripod up right in front of the Bengals' scouts in the Cleveland press box. So one of them flagged it to another staffer, who took it to a league official on hand."

Attempting to cheat right in front of Bengals employees. Right.

If this **** goes anywhere, I'll be done with the NFL once Brady/Belichick leave. NFL is becoming a soap opera with drama everywhere.

Link? It’s a a basic thing. Why can’t people include links???

 

[Kdo5]

Spy Gate 2.

Christ, thank god for the Celtics.

 

[FrodoBagginz]

Link? It’s a a basic thing. Why can’t people include links???

 

[sb1]

It only took Goodell to the Monday after the Jets game in 07 to make a statement saying the Pats broke the rules. I suspect we’ll hear something soon either way.

 

[JarOfMayo51]

There’s no way the Pats would engage in chicanery given the first BS Firestorm in ‘07. They would literally have to be morons.

Yea, pretty much has to be a misunderstanding... if Belichick was idiotic enough to do something like that again after what happened in 07, especially with a team like the 1-12 Bengals, I'd have difficulty continuing to root for the team

 

[sb1]

Yea, pretty much has to be a misunderstanding... if Belichick was idiotic enough to do something like that again after what happened in 07, especially with a team like the 1-12 Bengals, I'd have difficulty continuing to root for the team

He will be gone if that is the case.
I doubt it is based on what we know.

 

[lusdawg]

Question: if this is true about the taping, is it illegal?

 

[BadMoFo]

 

[VectorPrime]

Question: if this is true about the taping, is it illegal?

I have to imagine that at the very least it would definitely violate the spirit of the rules and the league would come down really hard due to the past transgressions.

 

[bormio]

This was idiotic. Sure another team can do this and maybe get a fine and stripped a late round pick. But with the Pats the NFL could dock us a high pick.

BB would be gone

 

[FrodoBagginz]

This is the one everyone is going to try and blow up:

It's legal to film anywhere on the field from an approved location (the press box is an approved location). Though, I don't know if they actually have to get approval for doing it. They got approval from the Browns for videotaping the scouting thing, but probably not filming the field/sidelines.

 

[MoreBellhorn]

That won’t matter in the court of public opinion.

 

[upstater1]

I have to imagine that at the very least it would definitely violate the spirit of the rules and the league would come down really hard due to the past transgressions.

Why though? Do we know advance scouts don't use their phones to take video from there every week?

What's to stop them?