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I can't stand cheaters. I can't I can't. He was cheating and he knew it. "My interpretation of the rule" my foot. That makes him a smug cheater. If you know where the rules are, and you risk stepping over them, you are basically saying "I don't have faith in my team to win within the boundaries of the game." Nice coach. Here's my problem - now every game we've ever won, every game we ever will win, somebody will be able to say "Yes, but you're cheaters." And they'll be right. Just because we got caught once (twice, even!) what are we gonna say, "Oh,yeah,we promise, we weren't cheating this time?" You've lost all integrity. You'll never be able to look an opponent in the eye and say that you played a fair game, and expect to be believed. That includes our SuperBowl wins. "They all do it," you'll say. "Why do coaches cover their lips when they give calls?" Maybe that's true. Maybe every team does what they can to get an advantage. But as of right now, all those other teams are working within the rules, and you can't prove otherwise. Belichick was so arrogant about his chances that he flaunted the rule multiple times. Personally I'd fire the guy. Demonstrate to the league and to all the fans that you don't do cheaters. Get back some integrity. The only problem with that plan is that some other team, one of the ones right now who is screaming "He's a cheater!" would be right there in line to say "He needs a job? Call him!" There's a complete cloud over this weekend's game now. I wonder if it will last all season? It's a shame.
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Posted by duane on September 14, 2007 7:26:14 PM EDT
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Re: Belichick Single-Handedly Wrecks a Dynasty
Oh come on. How could they ever consider watching the other team cheating? This has nothing to do with integrity. This was a stupid rule that was unenforceable. Every team is watching the other teams signals and there shouldn't be a rule against it. How can you reliably detect and prevent watching or recording the other team?
Comment from steveo on September 15, 2007 5:42:24 AM EDT
Whether the rule is a good one or not is not the question. It's a matter of being able to ever play a team again and say "We played fair" and expect to be believed. They have a definition of what the rule is (whether it is an arbitrary definition or not, that's what it is), something about our cameraman being on the Jets sidelines or something? Clear enough that Bellichick knew it, and broke it.
Once upon a time, when I was down in Baltimore, I crossed paths with someone in a bar and Boston was brought up. "Celtics," he said, "Greatest basketball dynasty of all time."
I was on a plane once, in New York, during a Red Sox / Yankees series. Guy sitting in the same row as me, a New Yorker, told me, "You know, I think there should be a rule that whenever that guy you've got, Pedro Martinez, whenever he's pitching, the other team should just be able to say you know what, you win. We're taking the night off."
As of right now, when people speak of the Patriots, it will be to say "Aren't they the ones that got caught cheating?"
That's what pissed me off. Bellichick is bringing us wins, absolutely, but as of right now he also brought an insane amount of bad press. We're not even getting into the whole sleeping with another man's wife thing, either. I'd prefer to have a football team I'm proud to watch on a Sunday night, and be able to go into work on Monday saying "Good game", rather than justify that "No, I don't think they cheated this time, but I honestly can't say."
Comment from Duane on September 15, 2007 12:58:31 PM EDT
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