I see zero problem with what Mangini did. Mangini would have never ratted Belichick out....had he not done and tried to video tape the Jets signals that game. Had BB done this vs another team down the road, Mangini probably could care less....but Belichick borderline insulted Mangini's intelligence by trying that shtick on him. You don't bite off the people that were apart of your backbone.
If only the real Patriots could play defense half as well as their fans, that would be a damn good team.
Josh McDaniels goes from 1999 to 2000 under Nick Saban, then to the Pats in 2001 as a personnel assistant, From 2002 to 2003, he served as a defensive coaching assistant for the team, working with the defensive backs in 2003...and then in 2004 he is the QB COACH. McDaniels who called the offensive plays for the 2005 season. In the 2007 season, with McDaniels at the helm of the offense, the Patriots set NFL records, scoring 75 touchdowns Prior to going back to the Pats he was with the worst rank Offense in St Louis wow, talking about moving up the corp ladder in record speed
Especially considering they went 18-1 while facing the AFCN and NFCE in 2007 to facing the AFCW and NFCW in 2008 and winning 7 less games against considerably less talented rosters and missing the playoffs completely.
This is an article that explains it pretty well: http: //bleacherreport . com/articles/199345-the-truth-about-spygate-punishing-success-and-promoting-parity I had to add a space becasue it wont let me post a link?
haha that is a great point. How stupid can such a great minded football coach be? Just goes to show how careless and cocky he was.
Mangini knowingly did something that was illegal for years to his advantage, then suddenly ratted out the first person to try it on him. I have a hard time seeing how anyone can respect that no matter which side of the spygate debate you are on. And now, even worse, he acts like the whole thing was just a silly little mistake of his that was never meant to amount to anything.
Yes I'm sure that Eric Mangini, coaching a rival in the same division, would have had no problem with Bill Belichick continuing to have an unfair advantage against all the other teams they played and thus giving them an unfair edge in winning the division.
^I'm pretty sure his point is just how sloppy and cocky Belichick got with his cheating. That should have been the #1 "c'mon man" of the week.
Advantage? What the fuck are you talking about? What possible advantage could be conferred by illegally taping another team's signals? Didn't you get the memo? The Pats just did this for silly grins, you know this.
This is incorrect. It was not illegal to tape from the sidelines until 2005. And Mangina was pissed because the Pats sent their security to get the Jets camera guy out when they played at Foxboro the year before. Mangina thought it would be cute to get BB back for it. He never imagined the firestorm it would cause, because he never thought it was that big of a deal.
They taped them to get an advantage, of course. But not to get one that game. There is no way they could pull the info on that cassette tape together quickly enough to make use of it.
I'd like to see your proof of this only being illegal until 2005. From my recollection, it had been illegal for years, but Goodell sent a memo out to all teams in 2005 reminding them of this illegality. But if you have some sort of link or documentation with something convincing on the matter of a rules change, I'm all ears. And let's be specific... a memo from the commish is not a rules change.
