SportsCenter & OTL Bringing Back Spygate (live, 9AM)
- Thread starter Lose Remerswaal
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ESPN is airing a new report on SPYGATE, now, on the day everyone goes back to work?
When are they going to repeat it, 4AM?
When are they going to repeat it, 4AM?
Bringing back Spygate Live.
Going to run in ESPN the Magazine.
I don't see too much really new here. Lots of sour grapes from Matt Walsh, Arlen Specter, the Rams and the Steelers. I'm sure this will merely fan the flames though.
Going to run in ESPN the Magazine.
I don't see too much really new here. Lots of sour grapes from Matt Walsh, Arlen Specter, the Rams and the Steelers. I'm sure this will merely fan the flames though.
I'm sure it's a total coincidence that NFL Lapdog ESPN is running this just before the start of the regular season that kicks off with the Pats.
the upshot is that Deflategate was pursued doggedly as a "makegood" for what some owners thought was poor handling of the Spygate scandal.
Implication is that Goodell is a stooge but nobody will take that ball and run with it. Only that Spygate must have been worse than everyone thought.
Implication is that Goodell is a stooge but nobody will take that ball and run with it. Only that Spygate must have been worse than everyone thought.
WAAAAAAAAAH. It couldn't possibly be that Saint Polumalu bit so hard on a play-action fake that he cost his team 7 points. Nope, they knew the signals!
I fully expect that ESPN will be releasing digitally altered footage of BB driving Mark Henderson's snow plow by mid-week.
WAAAAAH. THE PATS OUTPLAYED US EVEN THOUGH WE WERE SUPPOSED TO WIN.
Nothing new here.
Ooh, quotes from Polian too!
WTF?
Days like this, I just wish Tom Brady would retire so I can be fucking done with this Total Drama Island fueled joke of a professional league.
Days like this, I just wish Tom Brady would retire so I can be fucking done with this Total Drama Island fueled joke of a professional league.
So DFG ruling comes out Thursday and ESPN is ready to shift gears back to SPYGATE, today.
Nice audible, ESPN
Nice audible, ESPN
It's as if ESPN was reading some of the 'hey, you guys are being too paranoid' comments in the #DFG thread and decided to take it up a notch.
My favorite part so far:
Everyone was doing it, but the Patriots were doing it better, so it was wrong.
Nice:
The only people involved were a few coaches, the video staff and, of course, Adams. Belichick, almost five years after being fired by the Browns and fully aware that this was his last best shot as a head coach, placed an innovative system of cheating in the hands of his most trusted friend.
Everyone was doing it, but the Patriots were doing it better, so it was wrong.
Nice:
The only people involved were a few coaches, the video staff and, of course, Adams. Belichick, almost five years after being fired by the Browns and fully aware that this was his last best shot as a head coach, placed an innovative system of cheating in the hands of his most trusted friend.
One would think we learned over the past couple of months to seek evidence before stating conclusions. ESPN, you listening? Anyone? Anyone?
It is conveniently overlooked that the Patriots have a better winning percentage post Spygate than they did during Spygate.
Lose Remerswaal said:
This is ridiculous on so many levels. I'm sure that, until the other teams got wise to this devious and brilliant ploy by the Pats, the opposing team locker room was totally empty and unguarded and the super secret valuable "20 play script" was just lying there on a bench somewhere. It probably had a 50 point bold face title on it "First 20 Offensive Plays."
A novel spying system that included a guy standing in plain sight of 10s of thousands of people holding a camera. Very novel indeed.NortheasternPJ said:
The NFL PR assault on the Patriots continues by getting spygate facts in the headlines. Watching Mike and Mike with the reporter and you would think we didn't get any punishment for either investigation.
I had posted weeks ago that the Deflategate was just the beginning, and it'll be an never-ending series of hit pieces coming from both the ESPN & the NFL.
These fuckers are DETERMINED to ruin Patriots reputation and forever taint their stellar run. I have never seen such a coordinated effort to destroy a sports franchise's reputation.
Odds are there'll be another XYZGate tagged onto the Patriots, piggybanking on Spygate and the Deflategate, and soon.
These fuckers are DETERMINED to ruin Patriots reputation and forever taint their stellar run. I have never seen such a coordinated effort to destroy a sports franchise's reputation.
Odds are there'll be another XYZGate tagged onto the Patriots, piggybanking on Spygate and the Deflategate, and soon.
How fucking orchestrated is this bullshit?LuckyBen said:
What are the odds RG will now spill the beans on what the NFL suspected about SPYGATE?
Paranoia is not pretty..
This is insane. With the start of the 2015 season 2 days away, ESPN is running is running a hit piece on the Superbowl champions about something from 2007?? Could the NFL and ESPN make it any more obvious?
@MichaelDavSmith Interesting timing: ESPN drops a big Spygate bomb just before Roger Goodell is to appear on Mike & Mike.
Good men & women of BBtL, this is a coordinated effort, through and through. Goodell is embarrassed. He lost his best buddy Kraft. He's going to throw Kraft & the Patriots under the bus until he is kicked out or phased out.
Good men & women of BBtL, this is a coordinated effort, through and through. Goodell is embarrassed. He lost his best buddy Kraft. He's going to throw Kraft & the Patriots under the bus until he is kicked out or phased out.
"Let me be clear, the only evidence they <nfl teams that lost superbowls to the Patriots> have is suspicion." Don Van Natta jr.
I am god smacked from watching that segment.. I was waiting for some JFK assasination breaking theories to be announced after a few months of investigation.
I am god smacked from watching that segment.. I was waiting for some JFK assasination breaking theories to be announced after a few months of investigation.
Bleedred said:
That blurb is damning to Goodell also. It's like the cabal of jealous owners is trying to force him out for screwing up the investigations against the cheating cheater Patriots.
..and fuck you ESPN. Here was an interview wiht Jimmy Johnson back in 2008 about Dallas cheating, and the Chiefs too:
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/patriots_nfl/the_blitz/
http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/patriots_nfl/the_blitz/
Two veteran investigate reporters have an opportunity to really dig into the ins-and-outs of Deflategate itself--where the leaks came from, the relationship between front officer personnel and the Patriots, even potentially looking at the science again by surveying a few different physicists and chemists--and give us the definitive narrative story...and they re-report on fucking Spygate?
What an unbelievable missed journalistic opportunity, among other things.
What an unbelievable missed journalistic opportunity, among other things.
I wonder who Kensi...I mean the anonymous source is using as his mouth piece at ESPN now. I refuse to give this hot garbage a click.
Just saw the above tweet from the Indy Star. Of course this is why Manning is the GOAT! Jesus Christ Kraft needs to file a deformation suit ASAP.
Just saw the above tweet from the Indy Star. Of course this is why Manning is the GOAT! Jesus Christ Kraft needs to file a deformation suit ASAP.
Suber Bowl 36 is a really great idiocy barometer. The brilliantly simple game plan of trying to take away the offense's best weapon while hitting the receivers at the line to prevent them from getting into their routes clearly required intimate knowledge of every play they would run. It's a good thing the Rams pulled out their doublesupersecret signals in the 4th quarter when they marched down the field and erased a 14 point deficit. Thank goodness though because without taping Warner would have thrown for 500 yards instead of the modest 356 and Faulk would have racked up 250 APY instead of the piddly 130 he collected.
Also, the Patriots offense was a giant turd in literally all three games of the playoffs that year. Oh, sorry, this was the early stages of the taping so they hadn't perfected it yet. My bad.
LOLBOOHOO
Also, the Patriots offense was a giant turd in literally all three games of the playoffs that year. Oh, sorry, this was the early stages of the taping so they hadn't perfected it yet. My bad.
LOLBOOHOO