Cheating Patriots coach faces more scrutiny

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

People who keep this non-story alive suck cork by choice. - Tom Nuttall

 

[schiezainc]

If the Colts did this--no, scratch that, if they got caught doing this--, no one would dare say anything.

But anything the Pats do automatically warrants five articles from ESPN.

Here's a preview of tomorrow's front page on the website->

"Pats coach once farted in public after eating Taco Bell. Six Senators call for Tom Brady to be suspended for six years."

 

[Michael_ Gee]

They cheated a lot. Then they got caught. Then they got punished, rather severely, too. Since then, the jumping shark just keeps making the rubble bounce.
I'm old enough to remember when coaches cheating was treated like a big joke and proof of their essential brain-toasting self-destructive obsessiveness and paranoia.
Those were the days.

 

[Starman]

A Decade of Sins Deserves a Year's Time Out
by HARVEY ARATON
Published: May 9, 2008
What an extensive video library Bill Belichick turns out to have produced. Eight more spy tapes sent to N.F.L. headquarters for Commissioner Roger Goodell's viewing pleasure by a former student in the New England Patriots' film noir studies program. Who knows how many more taped over or discarded over the last eight years? Now that the "totality of conduct" for which Belichick was cited by Goodell has officially expanded to the length of his tenure in New England, shouldn't he be further punished as a serial offender, a con man who not only broke the rules but established secretly taping opponents as standard operating procedure?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/sports/football/09araton.html?_r=1&ref=sports&oref=slogin

Goodell should order the Patriots to go through the 2008 season with no electronic coaching aids whatsoever.
No TVs, no DVDs -- clean them all out of the team's training facility -- no game tapes, no video cameras, no intercom links to coaches in the press box, no radio links to the QB's helmet on the field. (And if they're caught cheating this time, start forfeiting games.) Use paper, pencil, chalkboards, dri-mark boards, just like in the olden days.

Belichick's fan club keeps telling us how great he is at coaching football. Fine, prove it.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Fine, star, but level the playing field.

No electronic aids for anybody.

 

[outofplace]

If the Colts did this--no, scratch that, if they got caught doing this--, no one would dare say anything.

But anything the Pats do automatically warrants five articles from ESPN.

Here's a preview of tomorrow's front page on the website->

"Pats coach once farted in public after eating Taco Bell. Six Senators call for Tom Brady to be suspended for six years."

They cheated. And worse, the NFL destroyed the evidence, creating the impression that what was on those tapes was more incriminating than what we thought. The league handled this horribly and that is why it won't go away. The NFL acted like there was something to hide, opening the door for this bullshirt.

 

[Starman]

Fine, star, but level the playing field.

No electronic aids for anybody.

Nope, electronic aids for everybody else.

Belichick cheated using the electronic aids, so let him pay the price. Next year, he can have all his gizmos and toys and TVs and cameras and wireless mikes and DVD players back. This year, let's see how good he is at actually coaching football.

 

[schiezainc]

Fine, star, but level the playing field.

No electronic aids for anybody.

Nope, electronic aids for everybody else.

Belichick cheated using the electronic aids, so let him pay the price. Next year, he can have all his gizmos and toys and TVs and cameras and wireless mikes and DVD players back. This year, let's see how good he is at actually coaching football.

And then when the Patriots win the Super Bowl again, we'll blame it on a betting scandal or say that they should've been forced to play without pads on.

Heck, why not just make it so that Belichick has to announce what play he is going to run and a diagram of what he hopes to accomplish on the scoreboard before every snap? Maybe then people will STFU and get over their hate of the Pats' success.

Yes, I'm a Patriots fan. Yes, I acknowledge that they cheated. No, I don't give a shirt.

 

[outofplace]

Fine, star, but level the playing field.

No electronic aids for anybody.

Nope, electronic aids for everybody else.

Belichick cheated using the electronic aids, so let him pay the price. Next year, he can have all his gizmos and toys and TVs and cameras and wireless mikes and DVD players back. This year, let's see how good he is at actually coaching football.

And then when the Patriots win the Super Bowl again, we'll blame it on a betting scandal or say that they should've been forced to play without pads on.

Heck, why not just make it so that Belichick has to announce what play he is going to run and a diagram of what he hopes to accomplish on the scoreboard before every snap? Maybe then people will STFU and get over their hate of the Pats' success.

Yes, I'm a Patriots fan. Yes, I acknowledge that they cheated. No, I don't give a shirt.

Really? Wow, none of us could ever figured out that you are a Patriots fan.

Save the jealousy crap. I honestly could not think of a more painful thing to be now than a Patriots fan. To be that close to perfection and lose like that. Beyond awful.

This is about the integrity of the game and a league office that is far more interested than covering things up than actually dealing with what happened. I thought the whole Spygate thing was getting blown out of proportion, too....right up to the point that the NFL decided to destroy evidence. I still haven't heard a good reason for that.

 

[Chi City 81]

Fine, star, but level the playing field.

No electronic aids for anybody.

Nope, electronic aids for everybody else.

Belichick cheated using the electronic aids, so let him pay the price. Next year, he can have all his gizmos and toys and TVs and cameras and wireless mikes and DVD players back. This year, let's see how good he is at actually coaching football.

And then when the Patriots win the Super Bowl again, we'll blame it on a betting scandal or say that they should've been forced to play without pads on.

Heck, why not just make it so that Belichick has to announce what play he is going to run and a diagram of what he hopes to accomplish on the scoreboard before every snap? Maybe then people will STFU and get over their hate of the Pats' success.

Yes, I'm a Patriots fan. Yes, I acknowledge that they cheated. No, I don't give a shirt.

Boo-forking-hoo. Your team is a bunch of cheating assholes, and everyone hates them. forking deal with it.

 

[Oz]

If the Colts did this--no, scratch that, if they got caught doing this--, no one would dare say anything.

But anything the Pats do automatically warrants five articles from ESPN.

Yeah right. And because the Patriots did win three Super Bowls this decade, there is a good, valid argument that this story ought to be bigger than it would if any other franchise got caught doing the same thing.

 

[schiezainc]

If the Colts did this--no, scratch that, if they got caught doing this--, no one would dare say anything.

But anything the Pats do automatically warrants five articles from ESPN.

Yeah right. And because the Patriots did win three Super Bowls this decade, there is a good, valid argument that this story ought to be bigger than it would if any other franchise got caught doing the same thing.

Valid point. I'm just saying that to me, the whole thing comes across as "We hate the Patriots. Oh, scandal! Let's rub their forking faces into it"