Addendum at the bottom of the page apparently.mt8thsw9th said:Do they bring up the part where the Patriots invented concussions?
Addendum at the bottom of the page apparently.mt8thsw9th said:Do they bring up the part where the Patriots invented concussions?
kenneycb said:Is there anything actually new in this? It seems to be a rehash of everything we already know.
When Spygate broke, some of the Eagles now believed they had an answer for a question that had vexed them since they lost to the Patriots 24-21 in Super Bowl XXXIX: How did New England seem completely prepared for the rarely used dime defense the Eagles deployed in the second quarter, scoring touchdowns on three of four drives? The Eagles suspected that either practices were filmed or a playbook was stolen. "To this day, some believe that we were robbed by the Patriots not playing by the rules ... and knowing our game plan," a former Eagles football operations staffer says.
Easier to blame others than to accept your failuresHendu Candu said:This is insane.
The losing Super Bowl teams all THINK the Patriots cheated?
Hendu Candu said:This is insane.
The losing Super Bowl teams all THINK the Patriots cheated?
Red(s)HawksFan said:
If the Pats cheated, what kind of chicanery did the Giants pull to beat them? Twice!
kenneycb said:Is there any actual evidence or is it all of the "I believe XYZ happened"?
kenneycb said:Is there any actual evidence or is it all of the "I believe XYZ happened"?
Red(s)HawksFan said:
If the Pats cheated, what kind of chicanery did the Giants pull to beat them? Twice!
"The world has never seen anyone as good as Roger Goodell as a political maneuverer. If he were in Congress, he'd be majority [leader]," one owner says.
That's a great point, actually. You know you have no chance against an allegation when the the fact that you won by close margins is used against you in a story about how you systematically cheated.Jed Zeppelin said:
The real story here is that the Patriots actually must have been TERRIBLE at cheating because they knew all the plays and STILL only won those Super Bowls by 3 points each. Why hasn't the media picked up on this?
Seriously, ESPN? This last part sounds like PFTCommenter wrote it using spellcheck.A photograph snapped at the party went viral: There was a smiling Tom Brady, in a designer suit, showing off all four of his rings, a pair on each hand. On the middle finger of his right hand, Brady flashed the new ring, the gaudiest of the four, glittering with 205 diamonds -- and no asterisks.
This year [before 2013 season] marks the sixth season since the scandal broke following the 2007 season opener, putting the incident in the midpoint of New England's long run of high-end play. Since the start of the '07 season, New England has gone 76-20 in the regular season. In the six seasons before the scandal, the Patriots are 70-26.
.SeoulSoxFan said:Hmmm. Wonder how they missed this little nugget: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--nfl-constant--patriots-have-racked-up-wins-before-and-since-spygate-011333070.html
Then Patriots go 12-4 in 2013, followed by ho-hum another 12-4 last year. So that's a cool 100-34. Which means:
Exponent that, motherfuckers.
- Six seasons before Spygate: .729 winning %
- Eight seasons after Spygate: .746 winning %
RedOctober3829 said:No mention in that whole article that taping signals was legal in every part of the stadium except on the sidelines.
BigJimEd said:The NFL really is a bunch if sore losers. Too arrogant to think that maybe, just maybe they were out coached and out played.
It's called coaching and practice especially with two weeks.
We saw it with the practice footage that had Butler and company prepared.
A former member of the NFL competition committee says the committee spent much of 2001-06 "discussing ways in which the Patriots cheated," even if nothing could be proved.
Red(s)HawksFan said:
If the Pats cheated, what kind of chicanery did the Giants pull to beat them? Twice!
rodderick said:
It's almost as if having a whole staff of coaches and scouts breaking down film of a team's previous games can give them an incredible insight into play calling tendencies in certain situations. Having arguably the greatest quarterback of all time reading a defense in real time could help too, but I don't know.
The Patriots' primary victims saw Spygate, and other videotaping rumors, as confirmation that they had been cheated out of a Super Bowl -- even though they lacked proof
DrewDawg said:
But some teams ran new plays they had never run before!!!!
In a Super Bowl!!!
Against a good team!!!
And are perplexed that they didn't work perfectly!!!!