I did read these--penalize them all if they cheated. How is that possibly an excuse for what the Pats* have done? Only to a NE fan does that make any sense. What, everyone does it, so don't bother to go after anyone who cheats? That makes absolutely zero sense, outside the Boston area, to anyone without a vested interest here in hiding the truth, but that's what it seems to keep coming back to for Pats* fans. Absolutely ridiculous.
I'll ask this straight up, since I never seem to get a straight answer from Pats* fans on this one--what if Walsh produces a SB 36 walkthrough tape? What should be the punishment handed down in your eyes? Let's get this on the table right now so that you can weasel out of this later when and if it happens. You've heard my views on it.
If my team did anything like this I'd be ashamed of it and rip them a new one. For ex., OJ Simpson was a god in my household when I was growing up. That doesn't mean for one minute that I condone anything he's done over the last 15 or so years. I believe that he did what he was accused of and should have gone to jail for a long time, if not for life. I don't let my homerism get in the way of what's right and what the facts are. Funny how all we get out of NE is excuses for either why the Pats* are being persecuted or a set up for why they didn't actually do it when a tape does show up ("Ohh, he must have acted on his own if a tape does exist"--that's horse**** and we all know it) or how "it all didn't really affect the games anyway" (which begs the obvious question of "if it didn't help, then why do it?"). Garbage, all of it.
As to your question about Matt Walsh I can't give you an answer. I'd like to know a bit more back ground on the man but my initial feeling is he's not the most credible man. What he has and how he got it along with who ordered him to do it will all be questions for debate. Questions that there will be no way to prove one way or the other juat as we have now with Clemens and his trainer. He said He said.
Pioli released statements as to why he was fired which his attorney denied but I didn't hear his attorney off up a reason to why he was fired but the fact is he was fired. When Pioli released his statement did you believe him? I'll bet you said he was lying yet you seem willing to accept anything Walsh will say as fact. Why is that? Don't you believe he is just as capable of lying as either belichick or Pioli?
Heres what bothers me about Walsh he has this so called tape or tapes yet he he didn't come forward to the league in sept when the S*** hit the fan with video gate. Instead he goes to ESPN obvoiusly to sell his "evidence" and as part of his get rich scheme he wasts ESPN to offer indeminity.
What was his real position with the organzation and would that position have made him the guy Belichicks orders went to or was he someone who could of had the opportunity to do something such as this on his own?
What was his reason for stealing properity of the NE patriots and the NFL to begin with back in 03?
What is the real reason for his dismissal as an employee of NE Patriots?
I believe the answers to those questions are as important as what he has for tapes.
So the things we can assume just from those few questions are
1)Walsh is a thief (no doubt he is in possession of stolen properity) and
2) he's also an extortionist/blackmailer (his reason to deal with ESPN instead of the league office)
So tell me why it is your belief I should just take him at his word? I know you're going to say that Belichick already admitted to cheating so he can't be taken at his word but doesn't the same hold true for Walch? He's a thief who obviously had some unknown reason to steal NE Properity.
Anyway I don't believe the commissioner will do anything further in this case. Goodell is a smart man and he knows that the mere presence of tapes isn't going to give him irrefutable evidence that anyone on the NE staff ordered the tapes. NE has said it has witnesses (co workers) that told Pioli walsh was secretly recording conversations he had with Walsh. Do you suppose Walsh has any witnesses that can testify they heard belichick order him to tape this walk thru? With out some one to corroborrate his story I don't think there is much the commisioner can do under present policy. So in the end where exactly will this lead us besides nowhere? Its not going to change anything.. you already believe Belichick is guilty as accussed and you're always going to believe that so what is the point in having this trial?
I believe the only interest the commisioner has is to get what ever Walsh has and destroy it and move on from this. Its in his as well as the leagues best interest to do so.