It's a real problem for the NFL. That's why I think the league may finally have had enough. I wouldn't be surprised if either Belichik or Brady announced their retirements if the Pats win.
It wouldn't surprise me if the nfl made a deal with Belichick that if he retires after the game, win or lose,this will just go away. I just find the league a joke right now. Get accused of a crime and you are suspended immediately and indefinitely. But cheat, which is IMO the on field equivalent of a off field crime, and the league needs more evidence before handing out punishment. The cheating is obvious, so suspend the most likely culprits until it is sorted out.
I love the NFL, I truly do. Nothing more exciting every Sunday then a good game. But in all honesty, the brand of players is in such a felonious zone that it is pathetic, the behavior of them on the field is just as poor. Sportsmanship could never be taught to a younger athlete by watching the game today. The way all of this is handled by NFL brass has also left much to be desired. The Patriots under Belichick managed to get off on the easy side for that taping scandal. Now this come to light. It truly makes me wonder about the mental state of this man and how many other things he has successfully pulled off without getting caught. He may well get to the Hall of Fame, but mark my words that if he does and then again in his obituary, the stories will all make mention on how his career was tainted by these episodes. He is a cheater. No better definition of this man.
Bill is going to come out of this just fine. It's the Patriots who will suffer. If Bill resigns, another team will pick him up in less than 24 hours. If he's suspended, the Pats will have to hire a new coach next year, and when Bill's suspension is up, there will be teams lined up around the block courting him. Meanwhile, the Patriots franchise will suffer for how he has vandalized its reputation for years. I'm not saying that's how it should be, but that's how it will be.
Retire? No way. In case you haven't noticed, Bill has an ego the size of the planet Jupiter. If he has to take a "time out" behind this, he'll come back with another team before you know it, and everyone will forget his transgressions. Hell... he might be the next coach of the Giants!
Sadly nothing will happen Even worse Pats will win SB and their fans will say "see, we won with any balls" Their team will be revered for overcoming this distraction and become legends for standing their ground and winning it all. It's a terrible thing but its just sports. Feels like WWE to me.
People hate everything about the Patriots, but that's a far cry from any proof that they deliberately cheated. In the end nothing of the sort will be proved which will set off a huge round of assumptions that it was fixed. NFL football fans are some of the worst sport fans in the world, thinking any which way they can get the best coach and one of the top quarterbacks out of football would open up opportunities for mediocre teams with mediocre quarterbacks and lousy coaches. There are really only two good teams in the NFL, the Seahawks and Patriots, all the rest either have a mediocre team with not good enough quarterbacks or mediocre teams with good quarterbacks. That wouldn't change if Belichick and Brady were gone.
If the NFL doesn't act then the NFL is well on it's way to being just a lessly broadcast version of the WWE.
Kimberley A. Martin Bill Belichick says he'll forever be indebted to Kraft, #Patriots for acquiring him from the #Jets 8:13PM EST Parcells screwed over Woody and Jet fans for the next 20 years by trading Belicheat for a measly 1st round pick and thereby letting him out of his deal. The league had already upheld the contract between Belicheat and the Jets, meaning he would have had to twist in the wind for at least 1 year. Then Mo Lewis finished the job by knocking the wind out of Drew Bledsoe. BTW, what Belicheat did to the Jets by "resigning as HC" was worse than what Dougie Moron did in Buffalo. Moron at least had a legal opt out.
Really? If they don't act it will be because the outside investigator can't find anything. If he can't find anything none of the owners will want the Patriots punished, for the same reason the NBA owners were on the fence about voting out Sterling and desperately hoped his wife would get to sell. It sets a precedent, and the one precedent the owners don't want to set is that the commish can punish teams without evidence of wrong-doing. They did it in the Bounty investigation, when there was no evidence they made Goodell drop it. He only got to go forward later when someone got him the emails that documented the bounties and the coverup.
It would be a sham if they found evidence and covered it up. Without evidence it is more of a sham to punish someone for something you can't prove.
11 out of 12 balls, colts 0 out of 12 balls. According to reports there have been allegations all season that the Patriots were using under inflated balls. There is little doubt the Patriots were tampering because they knew officials weren't paying close attention.
Belichick knew he would only be used by Parcells, who had a sweetheart deal with the Jets management. Head coaches, Parcells, can recommend a coach to succeed him, but not order him, this is not the Soviet Union. Parcells was a POS for leaving the Patriots immediately after the SB game...and his 'talent' never amounted to anything after that. Parcells just kept rolling teams for money, Belichick was the brains of Parcells' successes.
Wrong, it had nothing to do with "recommendations." Belichick had it written in his contract that he automatically became the Jets head coach when Parcells left the position. Now, you can't force him to be the Jets head coach (that's banned by the 13th Amendment), but the league could prevent him from coaching anywhere else in the NFL. That's why the Patriots had to cut a deal.
