I think winning in the NFL entails one or more of four things:
1. Superior raw talent
2. Good coaching
3. A knowledge of what the other team is doing.
4. Surprising or confusing the other team.
The Patriots have never had greater raw talent than the rest of the league, and #4 can work for a while but not for 15 years. (Well, other than jamming their headsets at critical moments.)
The NFL is awash in stories about players saying that they figured out what the play was by observing tells, and when they did that they tended to win those plays. Given the past situations where New England was caught filming other teams, stealing their signals, stealing their playbooks, etc., it's obvious that this is the major competitive strategy of Belichick's teams. There have even been allegations of bugging the visiting locker room. It's a pattern of using different tools for the same strategic goal of illegally trying to ascertain the other team's playcalling in real time.
Good coaching? That one is in the air. Belichick has a good reputation, but how much of that is due to Point 3? [Reply]
I've been saying this a lot last few weeks. They are tainted. They are cheats and they have been caught multiple times doing it year in and out. Anyone who thinks they don't is niave. If you don't believe that now then you are an idiot and just looking the other way.
None of their success is legitimate. If they have been caught this many times, then there's more that they haven't been caught with yet.
The NFL is just built, literally shit is written for parity and yet a team is somehow competing for a SB every year is literally built against the fabric of the league itself. Think about it. There is just no fucking way they are good at everything. Salary cap, drafting, coaching, everything. All of their cast offs fucking suck once they get out of the cheat house.
It's all a facade boys and girls and we can only hope more comes out, I believe it will some day.
Make them ineligible for postseason play for the next 3 seasons and suspend all involved for a year.
That will slam that door shut.
If this comes out as true then they should make them ineligible this year fuck this shit. Caught cheating AGAIN bye Felicia. Why would the league want to let them have a chance at yet another tainted title?
In the age of parity I just don't believe that a team can be as dominant as they have for as long as they have without some serious cheating going on. [Reply]
If this is true (and most likely going on still for all these years) the rest of the owners should Donald Sterling Kraft. Force Kraft to sell the team and ban Belichick for life. Talk about conduct detrimental to the shield! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Hydrae:
If this is true (and most likely going on still for all these years) the rest of the owners should Donald Sterling Kraft. Force Kraft to sell the team and ban Belichick for life. Talk about conduct detrimental to the shield!
I really didn't overreact to previous accusations but if after all that shit they are still pulling this shit, Bill needs banned, Kraft needs banned and they need slammed like no other team has ever been slammed.
They are a disgrace and an embarrassment to the game of football! They should be stripped of all titles and banned from the NFL for life! Bill and Tom should both be strung up naked in the middle of Salem Street where they shall be publicly whipped. Let's say 60 lashings for the both of them. That's 10 lashings per tainted SB trophy. Also their family and friends must be forced to watch!!! [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mahomes_Is_God:
They are a disgrace and an embarrassment to the game of football! They should be stripped of all titles and banned from the NFL for life! Bill and Tom should both be strung up naked in the middle of Salem Street where they shall be publicly whipped. Let's say 60 lashings for the both of them. That's 10 lashings per tainted SB trophy. Also their family and friends must be forced to watch!!!
No one wants to see either of them naked. That punishes us. [Reply]