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Friday, May 09, 2008

Spygate: Nothing to see here

 

The fact that Matt Walsh proved that he really didn't have anything new - much less a Rams walkthrough - won't be enough to stop the ignorant from flapping their gums.  Or clicking their fingers on the keyboard.

Harvey Araton of the Times can't possibly be this dense. I realize he's playing to the crowd, but c'mon. "Now that the “totality of conduct” for which Belichick was cited by Goodell has officially expanded to the length of his tenure in New England, shouldn’t he be further punished as a serial offender." Problem is there Harv, the league KNEW this when the discipline was meted out. Nothing new here. My goodness gracious, it makes my head spin. I think I would be far more tolerant if I really thought these people didn't get it - I'm having a hard time with the idiots that deliberately don't get it.

John Clayton has A perspective on the matter - I'm not so sure I buy the WHOLE perspective, but he's right generally. This was avoidable, but he makes Walsh seem like an unwitting dupe in the whole matter. This is was not. And he presents the issue as though it would have been much less controversial had Roger Goodell stated what Belichick had done, which would have been able to lead Walsh into a place where he could just say "nothing to see here."

Well, not exactly. The Patriots knew they were missing tapes - so Goodell did the only thing he could do: destroy that which was given him so that they could not be leaked out and be parsimonious with the details, just in case someone came up with tapes that demonstrated something OTHER than that which the Patriots had already admitted. Kind of like when you're watching Law & Order and they withhold information from the newspaper to see who the crackpots are vs. the people who have real information? Yeah, kind of like that.

While I'm on the subject of John Clayton (I'm not really, just happen to be talking about one of his articles is all), is it just me or does he bear a striking resemblance to the MASH character Frank "Ferret Face" Burns?

 
Frank Burns		  
John Clayton





Just sayin'

Posted by Mo at 2:59:28 PM in Football (68) | Comments (1)

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1. Fragnoli said...

You know me, I think this whole thing is nothing more than shenanigans anyway. Walsh got his name in the news, Specter got something to ride on, and the sports world found another reason to hate a winner.

5/9/2008

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