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The big takeaway: Patriots fans should want Goodell as commissioner for life.
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Sports Illustrated is piling on a bit: http://www.si.com/nfl/2015/09/08/patriots-cheating-suspicions-bill-belichick-tom-brady?xid=si_socialquote:Home teams are supposed to provide certain communications equipment, but opponents often don’t trust the Patriots to do it. One team griped to SI that New England supplied a corroded battery pack. Another current head coach brings his own equipment because he doesn’t trust the Patriots to supply anything of quality. A representative of a third team says the Pats provided headset gear that looked “like it had been run over by a lawn mower. Frayed wires, the speaker is all chopped up. . . .” James says that it is league policy for all headset batteries to be changed 30 minutes before a game, and that the team has “always complied with that.” He adds, “We’ve never been cited by the league for doing anything wrong as it pertains to communication device violations.”
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Sep 8, 2015 16:39
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:By former Patriots employees who remain nameless and off the record. Who knows what their role in the team was if any. "per sources" is the journalistic partner of "im just asking questions" Um, no it's not.
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Sep 8, 2015 19:45
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Comparing this and the avalanche of information that came out from Deepthroat is disingenuous and you know it. When Schefter talks about a player signing via his sources, do you believe him? Do you uniformly reject all news from unnamed sources, or only the totally believable ones about the Patriots cheating?
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Sep 8, 2015 19:52
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Schefter has a good personal track record. I consider a good track record being information from unnamed sources that later come out with evidence that there is truth to it. When Schefter says that some "source close to such and such a player" says that he is signing with X team and then he does, well that pretty conclusively solves that question. Don Van Natta Jr. (born July 22, 1964) is an American journalist and writer. He is an investigative reporter for ESPN, which he joined in January 2012. He previously worked for 16 years as an investigative correspondent at The New York Times, where he was a member of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams.
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Sep 8, 2015 20:03
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indigi posted:Bill Belichick is a loving genius. Calling him a cheater is according far too much dignity to cheaters by association with him. If this poo poo is really so widely known throughout the league, there's no doubt in my mind that every single team does the same stuff. They just aren't as good at it because you can't compete with Billy Fiveaces.
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Sep 9, 2015 01:02
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Lord Bill isn't your run of the mill cheater. He made staff turn their Patriots t-shirts inside out before they spied on opponents. Truly a visionary.
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Sep 9, 2015 01:06
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evilweasel posted:even a master painter paints the sky blue Hahaha
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Sep 9, 2015 01:36
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Bump http://deadspin.com/what-exactly-happened-with-the-steelers-headsets-1730005682 quote:Reports emerged while the game was still ongoing that pointed to a “grounding issue.” That makes sense when considering the NFL’s “power infrastructure” statement, but it doesn’t make sense given what we know about the NFL’s wireless communication technology.
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