As we all wait for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to speak about his three-hour-plus interview with former Pats employee Matt Walsh, the league has released some of the videotapes that Walsh surrendered to the league.

The tapes are being shown to the media that is assembled in New York for Goodell’s press conference.

Goodell is expected to speak to the media soon.

By the way, the television coverage of this event, on both ESPN and NFL Network, is creating the sense that something big is coming.

Then again, so did Geraldo Rivera’s coverage of the moments preceding the opening of Al Capone’s vault.

Meanwhile, various of the talking heads onf ESPN seem to be under the impression that defensive coaching signals taped in the first half of a game can actually be used in the second half.  We’d love for one of these geniuses to explain in detail exactly how these Cloverfield-quality tapes could be broken down and digested during the same game.

These tapes were made for use in future games, either against the same team or involving the same head coach or assistant coaches.  And we’ve known about this practice since September.

But, then again, ESPN has to talk about something while we wait for the Commissioner to speak.