Current Events > Patriots caught cheating...again

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https://www.tmz.com/2019/12/09/nfl-investigating-patriots-over-allegations-they-spied-on-bengals/

LOL imagine having to spy on the literal Bengals to get an edge, LOL Cheatriots
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This is like a heavyweight boxer feeling the need to cheat against a fucking flyweight. wtf?

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It ended up just being filming for a documentary, but we shouldn't let that stop anyone from shitting on the Patties.

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Gakk86 posted...

It ended up just being filming for a documentary, but we shouldn't let that stop anyone from shitting on the Patties.

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Gakk86 posted...

It ended up just being filming for a documentary, but we shouldn't let that stop anyone from shitting on the Patties.

But, a Bengals team official believes there may have something fishy going on -- and reported a possible incident to the NFL, which is now investigating.

ESPN's Adam Schefter says the Patriots were credentialed by the Browns (the home team) to shoot that day for a segment called "Do Your Job" which spotlights key Patriots staffers behind the scenes.

Schefter says a team official for the Bengals saw the videographer -- who was wearing a Pats shirt -- and reported it to the league.

The Bengals had no previous knowledge of the crew, just the Browns. Cheatriots gonna cheat.
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voldothegr8 posted...

The Bengals had no previous knowledge of the crew, just the Browns. Cheatriots gonna cheat.

To be fair, the Bengals seem to have no fucking clue what's going on, period.

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And during spygate the patriot employees were given excuses to give in case they were caught, including saying that they were filming for a documentary. So....

Dunsworthy posted...

And during spygate the patriot employees were given excuses to give in case they were caught, including saying that they were filming for a documentary. So....

But one of Schefter's league sources has confirmed that's what they were doing so

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At least they sent the Bengals' gear to New Jersey.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/12/08/chiefs-gear-reportedly-sent-new-jersey-ahead-of-patriots-game

https://imgur.com/pcXmlzM
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voldothegr8 posted...

https://www.tmz.com/2019/12/09/nfl-investigating-patriots-over-allegations-they-spied-on-bengals/

LOL imagine having to spy on the literal Bengals to get an edge, LOL Cheatriots

Pats are like the GOP of football lol

The Patriots are the Russia of the NFL, except with cameras instead of doping.

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Jesus...how are the pats the only ones getting caught? Literally every team does this, yet the pats are the only ones who get caught.

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YokoGeri posted...

Pats are like the GOP of football lol

Hey, gotta keep those Bills at bay.

Questionmarktarius posted...

At least they didn't send the Bengals' gear to New Jersey.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2019/12/08/chiefs-gear-reportedly-sent-new-jersey-ahead-of-patriots-game

Your own link says the mix-up is Kansas City's responsibility. But gotta push that narrative right?

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Gamerguymass posted...

Your own link says the mix-up is Kansas City's responsibility. But gotta push that narrative right?

Wait... you're taking this thread seriously?

Lmao Buttriots

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This story is about to blow up!
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https://twitter.com/diannaESPN/status/1204167338603491329

Pretty damning
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voldothegr8 posted...

https://twitter.com/diannaESPN/status/1204167338603491329

Pretty damning

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pogo_rabid posted...

Jesus...how are the pats the only ones getting caught? Literally every team does this, yet the pats are the only ones who get caught.

How do you know every team does this if only the patriots get caught?

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ViewtifulGrave posted...

How do you know every team does this if only the patriots get caught?

People only care because of the pats success.

Tsukasa1891 posted...

People only care because of the pats success.

And when it does get reported, the articles never get mainstream traction outside of enthusiast circles..kind of like how video games BS doesn't gain any traction outside of sites like gamefaqs.

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https://twitter.com/zkeefer/status/1204419234077560832?s=19
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This went from a scandal, to a potential nonstory, back to a potential scandal in like 18 hours.

I'm impressed.
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Also, reminder the NFL actually swept the full extent of the Spygate stuff under the rug so it'll be interesting to see what happens here.

I'm sure if the Patriots still somehow end up in the Super Bowl despite playing sub-.500 football for the last 5 weeks this is going to go over well.
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voldothegr8 posted...

https://imgur.com/pcXmlzM

Lmao

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spygate wasn't 'swept under the rug'. literally every team tapes signals, the Patriots just had the camera guy in a spot that isn't allowed

and deflategate was a load of bullshit that they never even proved happened

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thronedfire2 posted...

spygate wasn't 'swept under the rug'. literally every team tapes signals, the Patriots just had the camera guy in a spot that isn't allowed

and deflategate was a load of bullshit that they never even proved happened

Except they did sweep it under the rug

https://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/13533995/split-nfl-new-england-patriots-apart

Now it was Goodell's turn. The league office lifer, then 49 years old, had been commissioner just 18 months, promoted, in part, because of Kraft's support. His audience wanted to know why he had managed his first crisis in a manner at once hasty and strangely secretive. Goodell had imposed a $500,000 fine on Belichick, a $250,000 fine on the team and the loss of a first-round draft pick just four days after league security officials had caught the Patriots and before he'd even sent a team of investigators to Foxborough, Massachusetts. Those investigators hadn't come up empty: Inside a room accessible only to Belichick and a few others, they found a library of scouting material containing videotapes of opponents' signals, with detailed notes matching signals to plays for many teams going back seven seasons. Among them were handwritten diagrams of the defensive signals of the Pittsburgh Steelers, including the notes used in the January 2002 AFC Championship Game won by the Patriots 24-17. Yet almost as quickly as the tapes and notes were found, they were destroyed, on Goodell's orders: League executives stomped the tapes into pieces and shredded the papers inside a Gillette Stadium conference room.

To many owners and coaches, the expediency of the NFL's investigation -- and the Patriots' and Goodell's insistence that no games were tilted by the spying -- seemed dubious. It reminded them of something they had seen before from the league and Patriots: At least two teams had caught New England videotaping their coaches' signals in 2006, yet the league did nothing. Further, NFL competition committee members had, over the years, fielded numerous allegations about New England breaking an array of rules. Still nothing. Now the stakes had gotten much higher: Spygate's unanswered questions and destroyed evidence had managed to seize the attention of a hard-charging U.S. senator, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, who was threatening a congressional investigation. This would put everyone -- players, coaches, owners and the commissioner -- under oath, a prospect that some in that room at The Breakers believed could threaten the foundation of the NFL.

Goodell tried to assuage his bosses: He ordered the destruction of the tapes and notes, he insisted, so they couldn't be exploited again. Many in the room didn't believe it. And some would conclude it was as if Goodell, Kraft and Belichick had acted like partners, complicit in trying to sweep the scandal's details under the rug while the rest of the league was left wondering how much glory the Patriots' cheating had cost their teams. "Goodell didn't want anybody to know that his gold franchise had won Super Bowls by cheating," a senior executive whose team lost to the Patriots in a Super Bowl now says. "If that gets out, that hurts your business."

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Spygate 2: Spy Harder

or

Spygate 2: Electric Bungaloo

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