JoeSixPat
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Bear with me a moment and feel free to contribute to the theme
It occured to me there's a common element with pretty much every Patriots scandal.
Others don't know the rules. The other team's coaches don't know the rules... the players on other teams don't know the rules, the officials often don't know their own rules, and Blandino and Goodell certainly don't know their own rules - of course they can interpret them however they please according to their court filing.
Add on if anything occurs to anyone
1.) Spygate: New rule, that Belichick noted a gaping loophole in - no sideline taping for the purposes of that game day. Belichick wasn't going to use it on that game day. Goodell was not amused to be shown to have left a gaping loophole. He and most ignorant fans, not knowing that signal taping was and remains legal, were outraged. Numerous coaches and others said much ado about nothing - but an urban myth is born because the majority of fans delude themselves that signal filming is cheating.
2.) FrameGate: Aside from the fact that this was a vindictive hatchet job this "scandal" had its roots in Brady telling the officials what the rule was - NOT 16.0 PSI. Then Brady had the temerity to tell Harbaugh to learn the rules. In both cases neither the coach or officials knew the rule - and indeed the officials didn't even record the PSI (and despite their "best recollection" that no deflation occurred, Goodell arbitrarily decided they were remembering
3.) JetsHumiliationGate: Some how the fact that the Jets head of security didn't know the rules and thus attempted to blow the whistle on Patriots sideline personnel, this will add to the urban myth of the Patriots as "cheaters" as most of the Haters lack reading comprehension (case in point - the urban myth of filming Ram walk throughs)
I'm sure there's others - but there is indeed a common thread.
Belichick and Brady know the rules
Everyone else doesn't
When they outsmart everyone by playing within the rules, coaches, players and fans cry foul
It's a pretty clear pattern
It occured to me there's a common element with pretty much every Patriots scandal.
Others don't know the rules. The other team's coaches don't know the rules... the players on other teams don't know the rules, the officials often don't know their own rules, and Blandino and Goodell certainly don't know their own rules - of course they can interpret them however they please according to their court filing.
Add on if anything occurs to anyone
1.) Spygate: New rule, that Belichick noted a gaping loophole in - no sideline taping for the purposes of that game day. Belichick wasn't going to use it on that game day. Goodell was not amused to be shown to have left a gaping loophole. He and most ignorant fans, not knowing that signal taping was and remains legal, were outraged. Numerous coaches and others said much ado about nothing - but an urban myth is born because the majority of fans delude themselves that signal filming is cheating.
2.) FrameGate: Aside from the fact that this was a vindictive hatchet job this "scandal" had its roots in Brady telling the officials what the rule was - NOT 16.0 PSI. Then Brady had the temerity to tell Harbaugh to learn the rules. In both cases neither the coach or officials knew the rule - and indeed the officials didn't even record the PSI (and despite their "best recollection" that no deflation occurred, Goodell arbitrarily decided they were remembering
3.) JetsHumiliationGate: Some how the fact that the Jets head of security didn't know the rules and thus attempted to blow the whistle on Patriots sideline personnel, this will add to the urban myth of the Patriots as "cheaters" as most of the Haters lack reading comprehension (case in point - the urban myth of filming Ram walk throughs)
I'm sure there's others - but there is indeed a common thread.
Belichick and Brady know the rules
Everyone else doesn't
When they outsmart everyone by playing within the rules, coaches, players and fans cry foul
It's a pretty clear pattern