NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is meeting with former Pats video employee Matt Walsh.  The team, as well as the rest of the league, are waiting for the outcome of the interview.

Some think that the meeting will be relevant only to the question of whether the Patriots were engaged in cheating activities beyond the taping of defensive coaching signals and offensive grouping assignment.  But Sal Paolantonio of ESPN thinks that Goodell also should use his time with Walsh to test the assertion of coach Bill Belichick that the practice was the result of an innocent misinterpretation of the rules. 

Toward this end, Paolantonio has laid out a thorough (and impressive) list of questions that Goodell should pose to Walsh:

1.  When Walsh was taping the opponents’ sidelines, how much was he told to conceal his activities?

2.  What measures were taken to conceal his taping?

3.  How concerned were his superiors that what Walsh was doing would be uncovered by a member of the opposing team?

4.  Was Walsh worried about getting caught?  Why?

5.  What kind of instruction did Walsh get in how to tape the opposition’s sideline?

6.  Who gave Walsh those instructions?

7.  Whom did he report to?

8.  What happened to the tapes?

9.  Where did they go?

10.  Who analyzed the tapes of the defensive signals?

11.  Were there written reports based on the tapes?

12.  Who wrote those reports?

13.  And, more important, who saw the reports or was told what was in them?

14.  Did Tom Brady?  Or Charlie Weis, when he was offensive coordinator during the Patriots’ run of Super Bowl titles?

15.  What was Walsh told about why this widespread practice of taping the opponents’ defensive signals was vital to how the Patriots prepared for an opponent?

If those questions aren’t asked of Walsh, then the media should ask Goodell this question:  Why not?