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MI2AZ

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Why NFL and Patriots split.


Inside a room accessible only to Belichick and a few others, they found a library of scouting material containing videotapes of opponents' signals, with detailed notes matching signals to plays for many teams going back seven seasons. Among them were handwritten diagrams of the defensive signals of the Pittsburgh Steelers, including the notes used in the January 2002 AFC Championship Game won by the Patriots 24-17. Yet almost as quickly as the tapes and notes were found, they were destroyed, on Goodell's orders: League executives stomped the tapes into pieces and shredded the papers inside a Gillette Stadium conference room.
 
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Djarum300

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IMHO, Gooddell did the right thing with a 4 game suspension. Maybe it should have been 2. Sadly, it was nullified by a judge. Not that it exonerated Brady, even though the public en-mass probably thinks so. All it merely did was show that Goodells decision was "unfair".
I don't envy anyone in Goodell's position. He comes off too hard or too easy and plays catch up either way.

Belichick is smart, but probably too smart for his own good. I can understand some trick plays here and there and "elligible" receivers, but to think taping hand signals and calls on the field is "OK" is just plain old stupid and stretching what he knows is the truth. The same goes for Brady and the balls. While Brady might have only told the equipment guys to under-inflate them a little, the culture within the Patriots gives rise to folks breaking the rules.
 
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WAMO

Spanking His Monkey
AGREED DJ. IT JUST SEEMS THAT THE PATS CONTINUE TO PUSH THE ENVELOPE UNTIL SOMEONE SAYS ENOUGH. THEN THEY PUSH A LITTLE FURTHER. AND NOTHING HAPPENS. THEY KNOW NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THEM, SO JUST DO IT, AND LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY.
 
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