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Re: ESPN Investigation into NFL/Patriots
The quality of ESPN's investigative journalism for the NFL has been so bad that it's hard to trust any of it.
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Although Walsh's system of offense can compensate for lack of talent; however, defense is a different story. According to Walsh, talent on defense was essential and could not be compensated for. What did Walsh do in 1981? He acquired physical and talented players on defense.
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09-08-2015, 10:55 AM #15
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The NFL has a chance with an appeal, the judge's opinion when he ruled seemed odd. Past that it's all sour grapes.
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09-08-2015, 10:55 AM #16
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“When the sea was calm, all ships alike showed mastership in floating.”- William Shakespeare
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09-08-2015, 11:02 AM #17
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oy vey
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09-08-2015, 11:12 AM #19
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http://espn.go.com/espn/otl/story/_/...er-goodell-nfl
They collaborated. I'm also not saying the article doesn't contain valid accusations against the Pats - just that Van Natta has a habit of including every comment from a disgruntled employee, player and opponent and giving those statements the same level of credibility as documented evidence. Considering that KVV was pretty well respected around prior to that piece I'd say the common thread - the feel of a hatchet job is Van Natta's thumbprint.
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Hopefully this will be Goodell's last year. Even with making money for the league, the credibility is starting to crumble. People are starting to question things that are happening.
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Re: ESPN Investigation into NFL/Patriots
My take on Deflategate is the NFL tried to nail the Pats for a long history of wrongdoing by rolling it all into this investigation of a single instance of cheating in one game.
One thing I agree with as far as the evidence is that the "Deflator" texts from spring 2014 do more to show a pattern of cheating than they do to show cheating at the 2015 AFCCG specifically. What the NFL should have done is not limit the scope of the Wells investigation to only the 2015 AFCCG. If they had opened up the floor to the full extent of the deflation issue, to see how far back it went, then I think they would have ended up with a better case overall --- even though of course they never would have exact PSI readings from the older games, but still, you get enough people to talk, you'll get what you need.
Instead, by limiting the Wells invesigation to only focus on one game, while pulling circumstantial evidence from months prior, the NFL kind of shot itself in the foot. The Judge was even asking the NFL "what does this all have to do with this one specific game?"
So now it's not surprising that the NFL probably has cobbled together the rest of the dirty laundry they didn't air in the Wells report, and handed off to ESPN.
To me this shows a division among the owners. Some wanted to nail the Patriots to the wall and hang them out to dry. Some surely did not. The compromise then, was the limited-scope Wells investigation. Instead of going for the whole cheating culture, they limited it to just the one game where they had them red-handed.
The "nail em to the wall" faction, or some portion thereof, is probably how we got today's ESPN story.
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09-08-2015, 11:14 AM #22
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Re: ESPN Investigation into NFL/Patriots
Originally Posted by Dirt1;970625[B
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09-08-2015, 11:18 AM #24
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