Those lucky enough to witness Senator Arlen Specter’s half-hour rambling and contradiction-filled press conference this morning might think that Spygate has been resuscitated just before its demise.
Specter said it would be up to the fans and media whether or not an independent investigation into the matter happens. If it does, it won’t just be the Patriots in hot water any more.
The great majority of Specter’s anger came not from what Walsh had to say, but how the situation was handled way back when in September. This time around the NFL made sure that everyone saw every second of the videotapes that were turned over. Shockingly, no one was actually murdered on the footage!
Specter would have you believe something far more sinister has taken place. What exactly that is, I’m still guessing.
The Patriots admitted they’ve been doing this all along. They said, and Matt Walsh confirmed, they never used it in the same game (which would be the ultimate offense in terms of cheating). That isn’t good enough for Spector.
He specifically brought up the 2004 season, where the Pats lost to the Steelers in October, then beat them in the AFC Championship game. Okay, simple fix. Bill Cowher, did you change your defensive signals between those two games? Cowher seems like a pretty smart guy to me.
I think there’s a pretty good chance measures were taken to prevent the Patriots from knowing exactly what defense the Steelers would be in the second they called it.
Does Specter really think that the Steelers were so naïve, especially in a game as big as the AFC Championship game? Clearly the Senator knows little-to-nothing about football and has demonstrated that over and over in his press conference.
Specter said he found Matt Walsh to be completely credible. Walsh clearly stated that the Patriots never used their signals taping in the same game.
Yet Specter was still concerned that the tapes were being used for just that based on what Mark “Go Broncos” Schlereth of ESPN’s NFL Live said yesterday. So Specter either a) didn’t find Walsh credible on that single point or b) finds Schlereth to be more credible on something he has no firsthand knowledge of.
Schlereth was already taken to task by Pro Football Talk for his idiotic comments on Tuesday, and what a surprise it is to find Specter cherry-picking those exact statements as reasons why an independent investigation should happen.
A Senator using comments made on ESPN while banging his fist on the podium? Something does not seem right about this, especially when much of NFL Live is spent having fake arguments to gain viewers.
Specter also seemed outraged that Matt Walsh passed along info about what he saw Marshall Faulk doing at the Rams walk-thru, even though there was no videotape of it. That wasn’t good enough for Spector.
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