Does Last Year Prove New England Patriots' Innocence?

I'm sure a lot of Patriots’ fans and others think that they still proved their greatness with their record last year and say that despite being under scrutiny after first game and video taping, found out that it didn't matter. 

That it didn't help them, so to speak. 

Well, I’m here to put a good wrench in that theory. 

First of all, if something doesn't help you, then why even do it.  But I’ll go as far to say yes, the video taping didn't matter last year. 

They already built a cohesive unit over the years with lots of developed confidence, with Brady and the Oline having more chemistry than blood relatives and a good Defense already. 

Am I saying they would've been like the Falcons of last year in years previous without the taping?  No.  But let’s look at the first year. 

Tom Brady, an unknown, and a team with some talent but not the likes of a Super Bowl champion. 

Who gains tremendous confidence after their run and getting the Super Bowl title?  Now let’s fast forward to last year.  Now they have the same basic unit from that Super Bowl in 2001. 

The year before last they went to playoffs had a good record and beat Chargers with nine pro bowlers to their two.  But their wide receivers were lacking and negating them another trip to the Super Bowl. 

So, last year they built up that wide receiver core, and that they did.  Adding Randy Moss, the most prolific threat of a receiver in the NFL, completely opening up the rest of the passing attack. 

Teams just could not flat out play them straight up.  And unlike previous years now, Brady could just lob passes up for Moss, and he would get the job done.  It was video gamish easy.  

They already did well the previous year.  adding Moss made any video taping irrelevant because when you have a guy who commands that kind of attention and an Oline that lets Brady take a nap for awhile, there was no remedy. 

Until people finally figured out about rushing Brady like there's no tomorrow.  Giants had the key ingredient to beating Brady and the Patriots, the pass rush.  We saw a few times that Patriots had almost been beat with it. 

But the Giants’ defensive ends were so good during the playoffs, they could just rush four and be able to cover, whereas other teams couldn't. 

Plus, like the Patriots, the Giants had their tall athletic version of Moss in Plaxico Burress.  But the Giants had a better running game, which didn't make them one dimensional. 

It’s amazing to me the excuses that people come up with trying to make Patriots out to be innocent, as if all this SpyGate stuff is meaningless. 

Usually where there's smoke, there's fire.  If other teams did it, then let’s tag them and clean this up.  After all, don't fans want to know what their getting is legit. 

And remember, right before the season all the coaches were told in a meeting specifically not to do it.  Yet Belichek believes he’s above that and conveniently misinterprets the message. 

After all if something doesn't help you, then why even do it?  Why even play with jeopardizing your team for something that is so useless?  Does anyone really think that Belichek didn’t know every little thing that happens around his team? 

Hasn't he acted so secretive all these years so that he could keep his team productivity at bay, yet he’s oblivious to his teams game planning and strategy? 

Come on people.  Don't keep your head in the sand.