ESPN Outside the Lines Report: Goodell went easy on Spygate

[shocked]

What's striking about this supposed infraction is the absence of a major investigation. The New York Jets will "sting" the taping of play signals. The NFL will "sting" the deflation of footballs. But in this case, teams chose to create fake scripts instead? As hated as the Patriots were, it never occurred to anyone to put a camera in the locker room and catch this in the act? That's an oddity to me, particularly given how much gossiping goes on between NFL teams.

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Yeah, this is where my thoughts are leaning towards too. We know about the tapes. But if Belichick was really doing all these rumored things again and again, for over a decade, and teams were actually de-bugging locker-rooms at NE because they were so paranoid...how was nothing ever found? No team ever thought of pulling a little sting operation over this kind of stuff, stuff that's way worse than taping signals, at that?

[srvy]

Originally Posted by shocked

What's striking about this supposed infraction is the absence of a major investigation. The New York Jets will "sting" the taping of play signals. The NFL will "sting" the deflation of footballs. But in this case, teams chose to create fake scripts instead? As hated as the Patriots were, it never occurred to anyone to put a camera in the locker room and catch this in the act? That's an oddity to me, particularly given how much gossiping goes on between NFL teams.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/latest-...180544622.html

Yeah, this is where my thoughts are leaning towards too. We know about the tapes. But if Belichick was really doing all these rumored things again and again, for over a decade, and teams were actually de-bugging locker-rooms at NE because they were so paranoid...but nothing was ever found?

I doubt the NFL or the NFLPA would condone cameras in the locker room. If they have them its not something you would advertise. Would you want the company you work for to put cameras at the coffee station, lunch or break room or worse restroom?

But if I was a coach of opposing team I would always leave a bogus playbook lying around.

[Al Bundy]

Everyone knows the Patriots cheated.

[shocked]

Originally Posted by srvy

I doubt the NFL or the NFLPA would condone cameras in the locker room. If they have them its not something you would advertise. Would you want the company you work for to put cameras at the coffee station, lunch or break room or worse restroom?

But if I was a coach of opposing team I would always leave a bogus playbook lying around.

This makes little sense though. The Patriots got caught in spygate and deflategate because Tannenbaum and Ryan Grigson simply spoke to the NFL to warn them, then caught them, and handed the evidence over the the league. That's all it took. So, there are rumors galore and teams are going so far as to try and de-bug the lockerroom to prevent it...but nothing else comes from this? No one pursues this?