That would be logical thinking.....but between the spygate junkies, and just jets fans, logic is a very lacking ability.
And what's the alternative? Admit that the Pats are not only superior to the Rats , and one of the gr8 dynasties of modern sports?
Admit that this dynasty was accomplished against the handicap of a salary cap, while the other dynasty that Rats fans care about, the NY Yankees, was accomplished mostly through having a huge financial advantage over the other participants?
Admit that their franchise isn't cursed, but is instead reaping the just desserts of the bad karma begun when the Rats lacked the decency to wait until AFTER the 1996 Superbowl to steal the Pats' HC, as if everything that the Pats and their fans desired and had worked so hard for, was insignificant in light of the Rats needing a new HC?
Admit that Spygate really had no bearing on the Pats' success, as they proved by not only not collapsing into mediocrity, but immediately going on to a perfect season right after Spygate, and have had an even more dominant winning percentage SINCE Spygate?
Admit that while most of the players from the Pats earlier dynasty are now gone, but that the 2nd wave shows signs of being just as dominant, if not moreso?
Admit that the team that they follow is the laughingstock of the NFL, and have no accomplishments since winning SP III 43 years ago (and counting)?
You expect that?
Dream on........
For Rats fans, Spygate is like Santa Claus, a fantasy belief that they cling to to avoid having to face reality; a reality too terrible for them to imagine...
They suck, and not only do they suck, the region they despise the most, and are so positive that they are superior to in every way, New England, is their undeniable superior in the NFL world.