TheAdultintheRoom
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Just trying to piece together the fact that he shot the field for a quarter, then offered to delete it all when challenged. What innocent witless video guy is going to do those things? But if he's actually say a Steelers fan with PDS, how could he resist the chance to bring down the evil empire? He'd be a PA folk hero forever. He may not have even planned it, just made it up as he went along.
I found that out myself recently. Guess we'll have to rely on imbecile, cretin, boob, idiot, fool, dimwit, dummy, dunce, dingbat, lamebrain, loon, ignoramus, dolt, dumbbell or dope.Hey More-on is a banned word!!!
The "baby in the room"The "Adult in the room" just posted a confused gif.
Yeah, if they wanted to spy, why pick the Bengals to film using this tv production as cover? Surely they are not traveling to each upcoming opponent and using this excuse to film. Only the Bengals? Doesn't make sense. That said, use some common sense and keep the f#$%ing cameras away from there after what happened last time!I can just imagine the firestorm if it was the Ravens and not the Bengals. That will work in our favor in this case. This is being looked at as a joke more than anything nefarious.
I agree, the offer to delete might be totally innocentHe could have been filming the first quarter to get footage to show what the NFL scout is looking at.
When he was told it was against NFL rules, he offered to delete it all.
We'll see.For anyone on here who think it's remotely possible that the Patriots did this intentionally to gain an advantage in the game, what's more likely:
Scenario 1: The Patriots create a fake documentary crew who creates multiple short videos about members of the organization behind the scenes such as the equipment manager and the lady who handles Super Bowl ticket requests or whatever, and airs them online month ago, and uses that as a front to get credentialed by the Browns into the press box for a single game to film signals (that are hardly or never used because everything is done by radio communication these days) to gain an advantage against the 1-12 Bengals, despite SpyGate having irrevocably tarnished Belichick's legacy 13 years ago and knowing the risks of such an approach due to its relation to that scandal
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Scenario 2: The Patriots create a real documentary crew that films an advance scout doing his job against the Bengals, where the crew is created by the front office PR team and consists of contractors who, over the course of the game, happen to get four minutes of footage of the back end of the Bengals' sideline and captures them milling around, which is a technical violation of the rules that confers no advantage whatsoever and to which the Patriots immediately admit and cooperate fully with
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Off topic but am i the only one who misses old funny emote?
All good.Im not saying we are cheaters and even if we are ill still be a fan. Im just going worst case saying if video is nefarious. If its not, all good.
Dough Kyed (NESN) raises some interesting points:
— Part of the advance scout’s job is to watch the sideline of the team they’ll be playing. There’s some logic to shooting the sideline if the videographer believed he could use it as B-roll to show a scout’s role for the docuseries. Clearly, that footage could not have been used.
— The Patriots were shooting in the press box in front of media and reportedly Bengals scouts. That seems excessively reckless to knowingly break rules in front of the team being filmed and in front of media members who could report on the act. It doesn’t necessarily pass the smell test that the Patriots would be so brazen in breaking the rules.
— It also seems odd that the football staff would trust their production team, which included independent contractors, to assist them in cheating without eventually spilling the beans. A football staffer could fear repercussions for snitching. A production staffer eventually could move out of football and hold no loyalty to the Patriots.
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