Comments on: Week 12 Recap: Winning’s Hard When You Can’t Cheat

By: toddler4372

toddler4372 — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:33:33 +0000

My favorite “classless” moment was when the Pats played the Colts a couple years back in the playoffs…after the game Peyton Manning walked up to him in the middle of the field and offered to skake his hand. Belichick walked right past him, still mad that his team got beaten. Ha! What a baby! Billy didn’t get to win…quick, get Billy’s paci!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:41:27 +0000

“This is exactly how I was told to do it 18 years ago by a Kansas City Chiefs scout. I tried it, but I didn’t think it helped us. Bill Belichick was wrong because he videotaped signals after a memo was sent out to all of the teams saying not to do it. But what irritates me is hearing some reactions from players and coaches. These players don’t know what their coaches are doing. And some of the coaches have selective amnesia because I know for a fact there were various teams doing this. That’s why the memo was sent to everybody. That doesn’t make [Belichick] right, but a lot of teams are doing this,” Jimmie Johnson

Why don’t you get your facts straight instead of your ridiculous assertion the Patriots did nothing to deserve their dynasty. I realize you hate us because we’re good, but don’t mask it with some stupid conspiracy theory which has no basis. Keep thinking the Patriots were the only team using cameras and that it provided any advantage. It’s sad you are so biased by your Patriot hatred you make baseless accusations. You even said you don’t know when the videotaping began or ended, so therefore they cheated in every game? Really? That’s your logic. I certainly hope you’re not a lawyer because you really can’t argue a point.

You pick out one game (against the Colts) that is convenient to your argument but ignore the other ones which do no support it. First of all Tony Dungy has been coach of the Colts for 6 seasons, not 10. Funny how you don’t mention the Cowboys game, which was a blowout, and is a team we haven’t played since 2003 and has a different coach and a different quarterback.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:54:07 +0000

Nathan, it’s hard to discuss this with you when you clearly don’t even follow your own team. The Spygate thing didn’t break until AFTER the season, during the Super Bowl bye week. Before that, all we had was your team getting caught red-handed against the Jets, which Goodell claimed was an ISOLATED incident.

You do not know when the taping began or ended. Clearly, the commissioner of the NFL didn’t even know. And even if it did end with the Jets incident, how many times do you need to steal a team’s signs? The Colt, for example, have the same QB and same coach for like 10 years now…if you taped them in 2006, you could probably figure them out in 2007.

The larger point Bigmaq is trying make, and you’d know this if you watched football before 2001, is the NFL has always tended to cover up scandals and stink when “signature” franchises are involved. If you can’t understand why it would be in the NFL and all their TV stations’ best interests to downplay the scandal and/or cover it up, well, it must be nice to live in your world filled with cotton candy clouds and marmalade skies.

Your franchise has and will always have a tainted legacy. Now, I’m finished discussing this with you because you clearly have red and blue blinders on and will never take them off. Thankfully, the rest of the NFL doesn’t have to buy the load you, your team, and your team’s apologists are trying to sell us.