Patriots punishment

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

Yeah.

The people who think any of this impacted this game are totally insane.

This game featured a 108 yard kickoff return for a TD by NE - a 51 yard bomb NE TD to a reciever who was being TRIPLE covered on the play.

The signal stealing might have helped them in a game later on in the season, not this one.

New England always looks like a vastly improved team when they play teams for a second or third time in the same season - the Colts and Steelers know that as well as anyone.

However, I don't think stealing signals are the real reason for that.

maybe they'd have won this game regardless...but how many games have they won due to cheating? how tainted is their record now? how much better would it make a good team such as the pats--and if they were that good, why did he feel the need to go over the top on this, and risk so much for this game?