*Spygate Revisited

*With Matt Walsh meeting with the Commish it has become clear that the
Patriots lied. Two key points were, Walsh was told not to get caught, which
goes counter to BB's statement that he thought it was legal. Secondly, BB
stated that they were only used for divisional opponents. Several of the
teams filmed in the eight tapes that were released were not divisional
opponents.

Given that he lied about these two aspects how can you believe anything that
he has said. You must assume that he taped everybody that the Patriots
played from 2000 onwards. He knew it was against the rules. They used the
tapes during individual games to gain an advantage.

If we assume the worst and that they taped every game from the time that BB
took the reins of the organization then the NFL fines and draft pick
forfeiture amount to:-

Patriots organization fined $5172.41 per game ($4213.48 if you include
preseason)
Bill Belichick fined $3488.28 per game ($2808.99 if you include preseason)

Patriots forced to surrender the eqivalent of a 4th rounder between number
13-14 pick for each of the years that they were cheating.

To me that doesn't seem like very much...what do you think??? I am sure
Pacman Jones would have been very happy to be hit this hard.

Paul Lawson