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With Matt Walsh making the long trip from the Big Island (or thereabouts) to the Big Apple for a meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, PFTV takes a look at what this all means . . . or what it could mean . . . for the Pats.
Here it is:
PFTV LOOKS AT SPYGATE (AGAIN)
Posted by Mike Florio on May 12, 2008, 4:35 p.m. EDT
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May 12th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Oh, please let it die already! I’m begging you!
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May 12th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Joe Brocato continues to fail at finding a proper attire for these PFTV segments, when it’s not a blinding yellow tie, it’s this…
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May 12th, 2008 at 5:01 pm
you guys are f’n amazing. Only a few days ago you rail on the “traditional” media keeping this story alive when there is no meat to it, but you do the exact same thing.
Hi Pot, this is Kettle calling…
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May 12th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Bad, Bad, Naughty Horse…. How dare you lay motionless in that field. What’s That? Not a single nay!! well how dare you..As punishment you shall now be kicked… repeatedly,Over and Over again… Opps, Sorry I did not realize you were dead.
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May 12th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Wait just one sec, Florio…the headline of your post from the other day said LAST WORD ON “OFFENSIVE SIGNALS”!!!
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May 12th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
How does anyone other than the NFL know what was on the destroyed evidence to compare to the Walsh tapes?
They may have paid Walsh to feed false info and a made up “walk through” story just to slant the focus onto the reporter and not the report.
The fact remains that the NE Patriots got caught cheating, and admited to cheating all the way back to 2000.
That means everything they accomplished was done with an unfair competitve advantage, regardless of exactly what or when, that we will never know because the commish tried to squash the story by destroying the evidence and handing down a hefty punishment.
The argument that other teams do it too is not the point. When they win a bunch of SBs then get caught cheating and admit to doing it all along, they can be the other team who got caught cheating.
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May 12th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
That Beel Beelicheek sure know how to cheat, hee ees my heero.
How do I reach those keeds?
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May 12th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
what a crock of nonsense with Walsh. he has no tapes so why believe what comes out of his mouth? as for wiring, so what? the league sold audio to the Dolphins for crying out loud.
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May 12th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
Could it be that Matt Walsh handed over every tape except the Rams walk-through?
Being as that is the “Smoking Gun”, I’d think he may have held onto that tape for a pretty penny.
If it exsists at all.
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May 12th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I for one don’t want it to die… I very much want the media nd the league to investigate the taping practice of other teams, including the Dolphins who taped offensive signals and used them against the Patriots.
Of course no one wants to remember that episode because it illustrates that taping stolen signals is legal and condoned by the NFL.
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May 12th, 2008 at 7:19 pm
why would the patriots be breathing a sigh of relief
if there was no tape to begin with?just wondering.
this guy walsh is nothing but lee harvey oswald revisited,
a little man trying to act like a big guy.
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May 12th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
as far as this story has come,no one has touched on
the fact that walsh is being represented by a biiiig
time lawyer.
this lawyer is not some run of the mill ambulance chaser,
this guy draws smoke.i guess he’s getting a minimum of one
thousand dollars an hour,this is not chump change.
the question is,who’s picking up this guy’s fee?just
wondering.
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May 12th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
“JoeSixPack, a Water Boy, says:
May 12th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
I for one don’t want it to die… I very much want the media nd the league to investigate the taping practice of other teams, including the Dolphins who taped offensive signals and used them against the Patriots.
Of course no one wants to remember that episode because it illustrates that taping stolen signals is legal and condoned by the NFL.”
To the contrary, Joe. It shows just how effective the taping can be.
(Sort of undermines some of your other arguments, though, doesn’t it Joe?)
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May 12th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
another possibility - the walkthru tape claim (whether the tape exists or not) got everyone zigging left… while he zigs right with something else he has.
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May 12th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
and oswald was a patsy. that’s how those things work.
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May 12th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
skaybaltimore, a Passionate Fan, says: “To the contrary, Joe. It shows just how effective the taping can be. (Sort of undermines some of your other arguments, though, doesn’t it Joe?)”
Um my argument that other teams tape offensive and defensive signals and that doing so is legal?
Um no, I’d say it proves it for those who are too lazy to actually read the rule that says so.
When this story first broke, most ignorant fans (which doesn’t stop them from having a very strong opinion) were aghast that any team would stoop so low as to steal signals.
Believe it or not there are still some people who still think that, not realizing that every team does it and its legal and even encouraged by the NFL.
Then it is revealed that it wasn’t the fact that the Patriots stole signals - it was that they TAPED the signals for analysis.
Most fans and the media still haven’t caught up to that fact yet, not knowing that taping signals for analysis is the norm, just as was revealed by the Dolphin’s situation in 2006.
No, what the Patriots did wrong (are you sitting down?) isn’t that they stole signals… it’s not that they videotaped signals its (ok you REALLY need to sit down now) that they videotaped signals from a location that wasn’t in compliance with the location where then NFL says its ok to videotape stolen signals.
Yes I know… shameful. Much worse than the Broncos purposefully circumventing the salary cap not once but twice to win Super Bowls (which resulted in the all time biggest fine in NFL history of $2 million) and probably just as bad as what the Dolphins did to lose their 1st round pick in the tampering scandal Don Shula was involved in. But probably no worse than all the other spying and cheating in the NFL going back to 1955.
Um - what was your point again?
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May 12th, 2008 at 10:55 pm
Well, I’ll say this: nice suit/shirt/tie combo, Florio. Seriously…
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May 13th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Give it up . Nobody is as guilty as Florio as dragging this thing out.
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