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That won’t deter them either. Suspending Belichick a year will.
They would never do that.
The fear that he would just use the opportunity to retire and never come back is a real possibility.
That won’t deter them either. Suspending Belichick a year will.
I don't think Goodell would do it not because Belicheat would come back. It's more about "game integrity ".They would never do that.
The fear that he would just use the opportunity to retire and never come back is a real possibility.
Slightly different salary cap to filming but still advantage for the Pats or why would they do it?That would be hilarious if their downfall was secretly taping the worst team in the league
Exactly. The punishment has to fit the crime. What do the Pats care about a pick or two? And any financial punishment is pocket change to them.
The last time they got caught the punishmet did not fit the crime. They should have vacated Pats wins back then and maybe gave them a year playoff time out. It was well worth the effort to cheat and was another sweet treat to do it again.
Thoughts on the video?..........Video shows Patriots filming Cincinnati Bengals bench
Fox Sports ran footage Sunday of the Patriots' filming of the Bengals' sideline during a Dec. 8 game in Cleveland during which you can see the Cincinnati bench and hear an ensuing conversation between New England videographers and Bengals security.www.nfl.com
It's not worth much. Microscopic potatoes compared to 6 SB titles. If you're the kind of person who can cheat and be okay with it, you're never going to stop at a rate of just 2 first rounders and a bargain basement cost of a million and a half in fines every 20 years or so. Until a real punishment that erases the dirty titles and revenue gained happens, the cheat goes on. Expect it.For what its worth I just heard that they are looking at losing at least one draft pick and upper level management punishments as well.
Heard this on CBS Sports.
My thoughts are as follows:Thoughts on the video?..........Video shows Patriots filming Cincinnati Bengals bench
Fox Sports ran footage Sunday of the Patriots' filming of the Bengals' sideline during a Dec. 8 game in Cleveland during which you can see the Cincinnati bench and hear an ensuing conversation between New England videographers and Bengals security.www.nfl.com
You know the deflating probably, or at least very possibly started most likely in '06 when brady solicited the league to allow them to bring their own footballs, right? A 9-year advantage vs. a 4 game suspension and a traffic ticket fine might be somewhat attractive to a team lacking integrity. In any event, hopefully you didn't intend that the way it might appear, but those who see the punishment vs the crime differently than you don't necessarily lack intelligence, they just don't agree with you.The powers that be want this to be a non-story so bad. Fans won't, and shouldn't, let it die. It's not just that its one more (potential) episode of cheating for an organization that just can't stop, it's that it hurts the integrity of the game to not punish the organization that has dominated for nearly twenty years despite repeated, and I mean repeated, infractions.
Those with any intelligence knew that in delfategate, the punishment far outweighed the crime. They weren't just being punished for that infraction, it was the NFL coming back after letting them off easy in the past. That should have been the Pat's signal to stop.
As long as it they lose all their draft picks for the following year, because if they go 0-16 because of this suspension they immediately have the Brady successor they desperately need, and the cheats win again.That won’t deter them either. Suspending Belichick a year will.
You know the deflating probably, or at least very possibly started most likely in '06 when brady solicited the league to allow them to bring their own footballs, right? A 9-year advantage vs. a 4 game suspension and a traffic ticket fine might be somewhat attractive to a team lacking integrity. In any event, hopefully you didn't intend that the way it might appear, but those who see the punishment vs the crime differently than you don't necessarily lack intelligence, they just don't agree with you.
Your opinion and that's fine. Some might ask, why take the risk of doing it if it doesn't slant the game at least a reasonable amount in your favor? Also, I think a lot of people don't realize that it probably benefits the running backs as well, for holding onto the ball. Ask Benjarvis Green Ellis. Kind of a fumble-prone back after his years in NE. No fumbles for 4 years then 2 and 3 in the 2 years after. Not enough data for a conclusion maybe, but it makes some people wonder. If it was simply better coaching, why did he revert to fumbling the year after leaving? He unlearned everything the magical wizard bellycheat taught him about ball security in a few months? But it must have benefitted brady mostly, because why else was he in on the conversations with McNally and desperately destroying evidence? A 4 game suspension for very possibly 9 years of "slightly" cheating (after a previous major cheating scandal) is a fairly benign punishment IMO.It was slightly deflated footballs. Not that big of a deal.