Yeah, it looks really bad to lose to a team they completely beat down BEFORE Spygate 2.

It shows that intel from the "scouts" has been crucial to their dynasty.
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With 2 posts in the past 2 days imploring the league to go easy on New England, noted Pats apologist Mike Florio is doing his part. Says with no link to the football operations side, they shouldn’t get much of a punishment at all.

Never mind that their explanation that their employees weren’t aware of the rules:-) along with their long and extensively documented history of cheating should make the punishment even more severe.

I wonder what Kraft pays Florio?

I’m not linking because I refuse to direct traffic to that site.
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Florio is a dumbass.
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Funny that industry that thrives on scandal and is frequently willing to make up stories out of whole cloth to fan outrage do their best to minimize the Patriot's cheating.
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They protect the Pats because it's the east coast and literally the entire strength of Goodells run as commissioner is built on them.
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They have built the Pats up to be the greatest, most unstoppable team ever- when in reality, it was all smoke and mirrors. Simple as having "Advanced Scouts" tape teams and steal their singles.
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Goodell is corrupt and needs to be fired.
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The owners will just replace him with Goodell 2.0.


It's the owners who condone his actions that are the problem. He's just a highly paid puppet who carries out their wishes.
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They've infiltrated everything. They own the media... Espn, now barstool. Other media outlets have tried to keep up by adding patriots plants on every goddamn show. And of course they're getting great ratings because they have a long line of homers who they know would drop off the map once the Pats have back to back losing seasons. And not like it matters because the entire city is dominant in almost every other sport too.

You know this is messed up when they've basically made new York sports virtually irrelevant.
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Somebody made the statement somewhere that they were shocked that the ref$ didn't call some horseshit drive killing penalty against Miami to save the day for New England. I mean, how many times have those fuckers been bailed out like that? But not this time.

I do wonder if the league is finally sick of their shit - at least for a season.

I guess we'll find out soon enough.
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It may not matter, man. They got busted cheating before and it fucking changed nothing. They went right the fuck back to it. And obviously it fucking matters. If it didn't matter to their gameplanning, there is 0% chance Belicheat doesn't reign down fire on all film crews explicitly stating what they can and cannot film, because they don't need all that shit if it doesn't matter.

Obviously it fucking matters.

But I'm guessing the NFL doesn't do enough to disincentivise those fucks from doing it.
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I think it comes down to something very simple. After the salary cap was implemented and parity football happened. We saw lots of different bowl champions for about a decade. People discussed how this was good that we had lots of different teams with a chance...but there were others who said having dynasties was good because it gave someone to people to love or hate...

Goodell takes over and magically we have the greatest dynasty of all time shortly after basically any intelligent sports writer said the days of dynasties were over. I think they were chosen for 2 reasons, Bob Kraft basically got Goodell his job and at this point Boston hadn't won shit in anything forever and was a massive market on the east coast. The NFL basically created their own version of the Yankees with this...

If the league has moved on it's because they realize that horse is dead and they need to jump off of it and find a new one.
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Florio was confident he knew what the terms of the NFL player conduct policy was, and even with no evidence to suggest Tyreek had a domestic abuse incident, he was adamant for WEEKS that this would mean a suspension of some sort. And that was only after a good month or more of insisting that Tyreek was doomed to be suspended a year or more.

Lo and behold, the NFL interpreted their own rules differently than Florio. Imagine that!

I’m kind of glad Florio is being a stupid windbag again. He’ll probably be wrong, like he usually is, and the NFL will nail the Patriots to the wall
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I made the statement. They have been getting flagged at home more and more. In the past that didn't happen. It's a sign that the league believes they are a ratings liabity now. Finally they are not helping them win.
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Assuming the Titan’s gear gets there on time
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