snowmanny said:It's interesting that Hubbach ends up by making the forceful comment that it's "blatantly obvious to anyone who knows how NFL operates that cheating went on." You know every once in awhile I wonder if I am missing something that 85% or so of the country is getting about this and maybe Brady did something. But then I read that comment, or I hear Volin say that he thinks the league may be hiding evidence that would implicate Belichick , or I read that there's an owner who says the league is holding back evidence that would prove cheating, or I hear Dungy talking about imaginary bugging devices, or I see Bob Ryan ranting about how the Patriots are always stepping over the line of some unnamed rule, or I read that other teams think the Patriots have been getting away with (again unnamed) crimes for years, and I realize I'm not missing anything because there actually is nothing but the fruitful imaginations of all these accusers. These 85% are blinded by some combination of paranoia and stupidity and hatred and media mobbing to the point that they have total conviction that the Patriots are up to something. And if the facts in front of us don't prove it then we are looking at the facts incorrectly and anyway there are other better hidden facts that they KNOW prove they are right!
As someone who talks with paranoid people on pretty much a daily basis it's all quite familiar. It's just a very strange phenomenon to watch play out this way.
We know that the league is not hiding evidence that would implicate Belichick for one simple reason. If the NFL was holding something over Kraft's head, there would not have been even the tiniest hint of rage from Kraft. He would have fallen all over himself to accept the punishment and would not have uttered a single word of criticism of the league.