The NFL will do everything it can to protect this story from being exposed as any sort of cheating. They just allowed Bill Belichick to work on their All-Time 100 team and work on the show with Collisworth. Also on Boomer + Gio this morning they briefly discussed how the Patriots claim it was a rogue scout working on some sort of documentary? It doesn't even make sense.
What they said on Golic and Wingo is that the story was that it was Robert Kraft Productions working on a documentary about "what do advance scouts do?". If it turns out that this person was in fact employed by the team as a scout the jig is up - that's about as blatant as it could get. The team's goal then would be to protect BB from being suspended (some functionary did it, but BB isn't lying when he says he knows nothing about it), but given how Brady is so obviously on his way down, I wonder if they would try to get him to retire (paying him big bucks to do so) to spare the team from that level of embarrassment?
I can't see Belichick being suspended this season anyway though. If he gets anything it'll be four games next year. "Pending an investigation." Even though players with off the field issues get burned at the stake immediately at allegations.
a patriots team scout doesn't stand on the opponents sideline, so there would be no reason to film it. The patriots are obviously full of shit
Belichick will skate. Brady is cooked so he will retire/move on after the season. Belichick will follow him out the door and retire. There will be no reason to punish a retired coach, so nothing will happen except we will be there to remind everyone of their cheating.
And you know their full of shit because Belichick talked about this whole thing longer than he ever speaks about anything. Just like he did with Deflategate and SpyGate.
The argument was that the filming was just for transition and background as part of the documentary. As Wingo explicitly pointed out (and Golic agreed), however, if the tape shows an entire quarter of filming of the Bengals sideline that excuse is clearly bullshit. As I said, they were very calm in their discussion, but to me it came through very clearly that they think this is going to turn out to be a strong case for cheating.
BB very explicitly stated that he has never seen any of the stuff done by Robert Kraft Productions. Of course, if this was actually done by a scout pretending to be from Robert Kraft Productions ....
We'll just have to hope that the "Robert Kraft Productions" employee was Jim McNally wearing a large, neon yellow "I was the Deflator" badge. Otherwise the Pats will get away with it. I'm sure the RKP Human Resources department are quickly adding a new, long-standing employee to their records today.
"While we sought and were granted credentialed access from the Cleveland Browns for the video crew, our failure to inform the Bengals and the League was an unintended oversight," the team said. "In addition to filming the scout, the production crew -- without specific knowledge of League rules -- inappropriately filmed the field from the press box." LOL
"Robert Kraft productions".......gotta be some juicy stuff in those films. How bout some sideline massages. LOLOL.
nothing will happen to the pats.....they must have some decent lawyers on the payroll......unlike congress!
Almost the same types of videotaping done (opponents sideline), with the same excuses given almost word for word (Staff members were given ready-made excuses if they got caught, including that they were shooting content for a team show, according to Wickersham and Van Natta Jr.’s report.). What really goes on around that team without B*lich*ck knowing? Not sure how many posts of, "oops they did it again", do you need?