Goodell to seek harsher spying penalties

[YoFuggedaboutit]

I think he's doing this to look good for the congressional investigation

http://www.miamiherald.com/858/story/447826.html


What do you guys think?  If it turns out the Pats were cheating all that time, should he get in trouble too for destroying those tapes?

[ABuccsFan]

I think you should ask Jim Kiick and Merc Morris if they'd a token joint now and then, and refelctin on the fact the testers had to go halfway round the world in the middle of the off-season for the catch last time, drug policy has gotten outa control. Alcohol is just as bad an even Kiick himself said he'd played hungover in the book, Always On the Run. Which substance affects on-the-field performance more? The sanctions had an immediate impact on the Phins from back in Wannstadt's last season and I would think the NFL Commish should've done at least as much to the Pats by suspending BB for repeated violations of spy policy.  A prominent coach deserved double the punishment you'd give to a player, instead I think he got off with a Pat on the wrist.

Is "Goodell" part and parcel of an attitude of bias or at worst, an example of a man responding in different ways to two classes?

[StL FinFan]

Oh yeah, make them harsher AFTER all the Patriots stuff blows over. 

[simeon]

Goodell slept everything under the rug for his buddy Bellicheat and the more that comes out the more he looks bad. Trust me this isn't over and done with as I believe more evidence will come to light.

[BigDaddyFin]

Roger Goodell isn't doing jack shit.  The Patriots are getting a pass.  I'm not just saying this because I hate the Patriots either.  I'd have stripped them of their whole draft and fined them a year's worth of whatever the salary cap amounts to.  But that's neither here nor there.

What pisses me off about this whole thing is that everybody is blustering about this and nothing's happening.

The problem with congress getting involved is that Arlen Specter is as sharp as a box of ballpeen hammers (this is the man who is credited with the Magic Bullet Theory), and that Comcast (who is suing the NFL over the NFL network) is one of Specter's biggest campaign contributors. 

I don't understand what all the nothing going on is though.  I'll speak specifically of the Patriots since they're the only team that's been caught.  The article seemed to imply that this was widespread through out the league.  Belicheck admitted this was going on since 2000 his explanation being that he thought it was legal in spite of a league memo that went around a year earlier warning all teams not to do it.  Goodell punished them.

That's official list of events right?

So Specter is getting involved but nothing is happening (no congressional hearings scheduled that I know of, I heard Anti trust thrown around for awhile but that's died down too)

This employee who is now a golf pro apparently has tapes.  But nobody's interviewed him, he's not talking and no one knows what he has.

All this is supposedly going on, and nothing's happening. 

What gives?

[DZA]

Godell is part of the Problem .

[Defense54]

Karma made the Pats pay for what they did. I'm over it now. Time for Miami to make the East competive again.

[BigDaddyFin]

The whole thing seemed like it was over then he announces this at the league meetings? 

I'm over it too, but something still isn't right about this whole thing.