Belichick Stole Signals And Plays Forty Times...

[NEhomer]

Nor do the Patriots.

 

[eaglesnut]

Omg how did the pats ever lose?????

 

[Eugene Baker III]

Yet another case of a whiney-ass fan ignoring the obvious reasons for their teams loss to look for something that makes their tortured whiney little soul feel better.

Please note the article appeared in the,San Diego Union-Tribune..owned by the Tribune Publishing Company that owns the CHICAGO Tribune and the LOS ANGELES Times...

...this was not pulled out of someone's ass...

...this,was from an ABC/ESPN expose.

Do you think ESPN wants to piss off the NFL or do you think every owner EXCEPT Kraft is planning to castrate the Patriots and ESPN knew they could publish this?


"..stole signals FORTY TIMES...."

 

[Eugene Baker III]

Nor do the Patriots.

So ESPN is lying????



Sure they are....

 

[NEhomer]

EB, all teams guard their locker room. If they don't AND they leave sensitive documents lying around, too fucking bad.

Matt Chatham (sorry Boston reporter) and former Patriot calls the entire accusation ridiculous.

 

[Eugene Baker III]

From Spygate to Deflategate: Inside what split the NFL and New England Patriots apart

 

[Eugene Baker III]

Just five days after a federal judge foiled the NFL by vacating Tom Brady’s Deflategate suspension, ESPN and Sports Illustrated both cited a host of sources — almost all of them anonymous — claiming the Patriots stole signals in at least 40 games and essentially skirted the rules at every turn.


ESPN alleged the cheating was covered up or downplayed by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell until the other 31 owners could stand it no more and pressed Goodell to go after Brady and the Patriots in the Deflategate case as a form of “a makeup call.”

Spygate much worse than Belichick, Goodell divulged
The rampant cheating, which ESPN attributed to Belichick and his mysterious assistant Ernie Adams, began when Belichick coached the Browns in the early 1990s and continued up until the Patriots were caught illegally videotaping the Jets’ signals in the 2007 season opener at Giants Stadium.

The most damning allegation was that a group of Patriots video employees spied on the Rams’ pregame walk-through before Super Bowl XXXVI in New Orleans in 2002 and used strategic details from what they saw the next day in their 20-17 victory.

ESPN also quoted former Patriots employees and coaches as saying a low-level employee in the early 2000s would sneak into the opposing locker room before home games and steal the play sheet detailing their opponent’s first 20 or so scripted plays.

Goodell, who owed his elevation to commissioner in 2006 in large part to Patriots owner Robert Kraft, did much to sweep the cheating under the rug — especially in the months after Spygate when the late U.S. Sen. Arlen Spector was investigating the case — until the other owners had finally had enough.

“Goodell didn’t want anybody to know that his gold franchise had won Super Bowls by cheating. If that gets out, that hurts your business,” a senior executive whose team lost to the Patriots in a Super Bowl told investigative reporters from ESPN’s “Outside the Lines.”

The ESPN report said NFL officials, alerted to a viewing library of stolen-signal tapes inside Gillette Stadium, physically destroyed the tapes by stomping them into pieces on orders from Goodell shortly after the Spygate allegations surfaced in 2007.

 

[Eugene Baker III]

Oopsie doodle!

 

[Eugene Baker III]

OJ said he didn't kill Nichole or Goldman either.




NFL was so hell-bent on pursuing a harsh punishment for the seemingly innocuous act of playing with slightly under-inflated footballs.

One of the most damning parts of the report is when Van Natta and Wickersham get confirmation from anonymous former Patriots employees that the team used to send an employee to opponents’ locker rooms to steal their play sheets.

From the report:

In fact, many former New England coaches and employees insist that the taping of signals wasn’t even the most effective cheating method the Patriots deployed in that era. Several of them acknowledge that during pregame warm-ups, a low-level Patriots employee would sneak into the visiting locker room and steal the play sheet, listing the first 20 or so scripted calls for the opposing team’s offense. (The practice became so notorious that some coaches put out fake play sheets for the Patriots to swipe.) Numerous former employees say the Patriots would have someone rummage through the visiting team hotel for playbooks or scouting reports.

This seems considerably worse than footballs being deflated, and can perhaps explain why the NFL was so eager to punish the Patriots.

You can read the entire report over at ESPN.

UPDATE: The Patriots have issued a statement about the report.

 

[SJ76]

Deflategate: 260+ days of investigation

Sypgate: 4 days of investigation, evidence destroyed

 

[sonnyblack65]

Oopsie doodle!

take it in the ass? oopsie doodle

 

[Eugene Baker III]

Deflategate: 260+ days of investigation

Sypgate: 4 days of investigation, evidence destroyed

"I should have thought of that!" Bill Cosby.