Patriots punishment

[MaTH716]

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.

I think the Pats are a much better team than the Jets, and this incident
had no affect on THIS game. Do they have past tapes that might have given them an edge in this game (not saying it would have mattered). But the question is how long have they been doing this? and what do they do with the tape? Are they using it as some sort of advanced scouting, meaning they have an idea what the formations and audible calls are. So this confiscated tape just would have updated the Jets catelog. Do they have one for every team? You would think if they were taping the Jets (who are not a good team), you would think that they have tapes against the Colts and Chargers. Basically it just gives them an unfair advantage against every team that they have an illegal tape on. They probably have a catelog on every team in the league. If the NFL could somehow prove this then Mr. Belichek might really be in some deep S#!%.

[JJP]

I think they've already proven that and Mr. Belichek's wallet would have to agree also.

If you get caught cheating once, it opens up a whole new can of worms. Have to wonder if they aren't cheating in other ways. Remember Sammy Sosa with the corked bat? I think even the most naive non-believer in steroids would've had to say, "yeah, it probably was more than weights with Sammy".

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by MaTH716

I think the Pats are a much better team than the Jets, and this incident
had no affect on THIS game. Do they have past tapes that might have given them an edge in this game (not saying it would have mattered). But the question is how long have they been doing this? and what do they do with the tape? Are they using it as some sort of advanced scouting, meaning they have an idea what the formations and audible calls are. So this confiscated tape just would have updated the Jets catelog. Do they have one for every team? You would think if they were taping the Jets (who are not a good team), you would think that they have tapes against the Colts and Chargers. Basically it just gives them an unfair advantage against every team that they have an illegal tape on. They probably have a catelog on every team in the league. If the NFL could somehow prove this then Mr. Belichek might really be in some deep S#!%.

you would have to assume that they didn't just tape the team they were playing currently. did someone tape this weeks opponent last week?