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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Great Article that really sheds light into Spygate, which IMO probably should have been a bigger deal then it was.
I also hate the "everyone was doing it" defense.
IMO if everyone was doing it they probably wouldn't have had the cover up that they had, and you would probably have heard about other teams having these secret rooms as well.
Personally if the information in that article is true it then leads me to question Brady's place as a great QB. It's a lot easier to play quarterback, and read the defense (one of his greatest strengths supposedly) when you know what set the defense is running.
Although he has been even more productive since 2007 so who knows if it really mattered, or if they just found another way to cheat.
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It's not a great article. It's a biased, leading article that doesn't shed light on any new facts. It should have been a far lesser story than it was at the time, and there's no reason it needs 11,000 words on it 8 years after it happened. Let me debunk some stuff from the article and what is thought of as fact.
Rams - There are thoughts that the Patriots videotaped the walk through before S36. This has been refuted many times. Not one shred of proof tied them to a disgruntled, fired, former employee's statement. Papers have run full page, front and back, apologies for reporting on this. They said the Patriots must have taped the walk through because they broke out some new plays in the red zone. The Rams entered the red zone one time in the game. They scored a touchdown on that possession. What are they complaining about for that one? They are also saying somehow knowing that Faulk was the KR on one play made them kick it so that Faulk ran out of bounds after catching it. This is baffling. If it was going out of bounds, the Rams would get the ball on the 40. That's a bad decision by Faulk, not a cheat by the Patriots. It also said Martz lost his career over that game. He coached St. Louis for five more years. Yeah, that devastated him. Next!
Eagles - The article says the Eagles feel they were cheated. They fell apart down the stretch, like they did in countless games under Reid/McNabb. Did they make McNabb barf in the huddle too? Child please.
Steelers - Kordell Stewart is a terrible QB, and their special teams had an awful day. I can give you stats to back this up, but they are in plain sight.
The article was made to look like the Pats wouldn't comment on it. Do you mean that Belichick might have something better to do in 2015 than comment on something that happened in 2007? Shocking.
I could go on and on, but the main point is this article is garbage. If you learned something new from it, you haven't been paying attention the previous 8 years.