Bottom Line: The Patriots Cheated.
I am reading all kinds of nonsense about how the Patriots’ accomplishments are not tarnished by the fact that they stole signals and cheated to win.
I don’t look at the Patriots as a dynasty.
I think of their run as a travesty.
They stole Super Bowls from three seemingly superior teams.
However, who has the rings? In the long run, that is all that matters.
Here is a comment from Vangup on sportsline.com:
Having coached high school and college football for 17 years you come to realize real quick that no matter how much you know about the other team’s offense or defense you have to have the athletes to be successful. If your players are slower and weaker than the other team you will get beat no matter what, no matter how smart you are.
True indeed.
De Anza College isn’t going to compete with Miami no matter how much they know about the Hurricanes’ offense or defense, but we are talking about the NFL.
EVERY team has the athletes in the NFL.
Coaching and strategy come into play big time in the NFL.
Look at the Patriots at the end of 2007 as opposed the beginning. As teams got more tape on the Patriots machine, the machine started to slow down.
The Patriots’ offense went from scoring 31, to 21, and finally to 14 points in the 2007 playoffs.
Hardly a coincidence.
The Chargers saw the Jaguars not get any pressure on Tom Brady and get torched, while the Giants saw the Chargers defense get after Brady and force him into mistakes. The Giants then took the pass rush to the extreme repeatedly smacking Brady in the mouth.
All this babbling and here is what I am getting at… The Patriots had superior information and they used that information to win Super Bowls.
Who cares if they taped the St. Louis Rams Super Bowl walk through (they probably did)? They obviously stole the Rams signals in the first game the two teams played that season.
Here is a team that has won three Super Bowls by a total of nine points. Nine points! I repeat. Nine points!
Look back to that game winning field goal drive against the Rams. The Patriots are in the no huddle offense. The Rams are signaling in their defensive plays. The Patriots have stolen these aforementioned signals by breaking NFL rules. Magically, the Rams don’t even come close to stopping the Patriots from getting into field goal range… Game.
How can you compare that fallacy to the classic Super Bowl that the Tennessee Titans and St. Louis Rams played? How can you call the Patriots a dynasty and compare them to the likes of the 80’s era 49ers or the 90’s era Cowboys? Can those Patriot teams of this decade really compare with the Denver Broncos of the late 90’s? No.
(Notice how I conveniently left of the steroid using 70’s era Steelers, another bunch of cheaters)
As far as I am concerned, the Patriots are the three-time Techmo Bowl Champs.*
If the Patriots had not tried to embarrass the NY Jets by running up the score, Eric Mangini would not have told on the Patriots in the first place.
Now, does anyone honestly believe that the Patriots would not currently be the defending Super Bowl Champs had Mangenius not ratted Bill Belichick out?
One last thing… Roger Goodell, AKA Robert Kraft’s lapdog, destroyed all of the Spy Gate “tapes.” It’s not the 90’s my friend. Belichick still has his library of stolen signals on High Definition BlueRay Disc and we all know it.
*In the classic Nintendo game Techmo Bowl, if you were slick enough to see what the other guy picked you could easily win. For example, if my opponent selected the bottom offensive play and I picked the bottom defensive play, that QB was going down!
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4 months ago
i could not agree with you more. Goddell thinks his name is only three letters, God. he decides what is evidence and what is not. he decides how far to take the investigation, only to the front door. don't let anyone else see. sounds like the actions of a child molester taking up with his cohort in crime. cover up, cover up, excuses, excuses. Kraft is just as quilty in my opinion.
4 months ago
So let me understand - you are saying because the patriots lost in the playoffs, and scored less points each round, that is because they had stopped cheating, and if they had been, they would have won the super bowl? do you conveniently ignore that the pats were caught in week 1 - then went on to have the most prolific offense in the history of the NFL. how did that happen?
they broke the rules, they were dumb, they were arrogant - in september, they got caught, they were punished, they were punished severely. should they have done it - absolutely not. but if you think this is why they won 3 super bowls, you are out of your mind. a team in the nfl, you dont think they changed their signals (or how they call their signals) when seeing a team the second time? and if they didn't, they are just being dumb. even without video, teams can monitor opponents' signals - so of course teams 1) try to hide their signals, and 2) change them all the time.
there has never been a more overblown, dragged out story in the history of sports coverage than this. here we are 9 months later, still talking about it, and we havent learned anything new. we knew in september the patriots taped signals, we knew they had been doing it. we know else now except that arlen specter is old and crabby.
from 4 months ago
Teams caught up with them in the playoffs. Basically, if they had been able to cheat in that game of the season against the Giants, they would have easily won the Super Bowl.
4 months ago
The 90's Denver teams cheated too. They paid players under the table so they could free up more cap space. Shannon Sharpe wouldn't have been there if it wasn't for that. Go back to sucking Mark Schlereth's dick and stop writing about shit you are ignorant to. I'm sick of this BS like other teams don't try to get every advantage they can. I'm through with this.
from 4 months ago
You've got me on the one...
4 months ago
You're just a bitter Chargers fan that is mad we've beaten you twice in the playoffs in the recent past. God, this shit is ridiculous.
from 4 months ago
Uh-huh...
4 months ago
The Rams walkthrough taping never happened and an apology has been issued read the facts. I'm begining to think all the Patriot haters out there really have a soft spot for them since they can't seem to get them off their minds.
from 4 months ago
Ivahn, you're my hero, lol.
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