"What the fack! Fackin Bellichick is screwed over again!! Everyone hates the fackin Pats! This league is so facked, always against the Pats! Welkaaaaaaaaah!" Said all New England Patriots yesterday
"The NFL fined the Denver Broncos and coach Josh McDaniels $50,000 each because the team's video operations director filmed a San Francisco 49ers practice in London last month, breaking league rules.
The NFL investigation determined Steve Scarnecchia took a six-minute video of the walkthrough and presented it that day to McDaniels. The coach declined to view it. Still, the NFL fined both the coach and team because the matter was not promptly reported, as required by the league."
It's not surprising that a former Patriots worker tried doing this again in Steve Scarnecchia who was involved with the Patriots cheating scandals in the early 2000's. Scarnecchia is banned from the NFL for life.
In addition, the investigation found that when Scarnecchia offered to show the tape to McDaniels, the coach replied, "No, I'm not doing that." Scarnecchia said he didn't show the tape to any other staff member.
Goodell's letter said "under circumstances that would have made it impossible for him to have spoken to Mr. Scarnecchia in advance" and that McDaniels' recollection of events matched Scarnecchia's.
So what's the difference? The Bronco's eventually admitted their wrongdoing, didn't look at the tape and even with the tape the Bronco's still lost the game.
The Patriots were accused of cheating, lied about it, and was found guilty of doing so. Also, it was a much bigger stage, and the Patriots gained a competitive edge on the Rams, Panthers and Eagles. The Patriots also made low level interns do it, Scarnecchia did it on his own.
So the Broncos and McDaniels got the penalties they deserved and so did the Patriots. Even though I would have taken away their championships too.
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