BroncoStud
12-06-2010, 11:27 AM
I did some reading on how Spygate went down and something became pretty apparent... The "Patriots Way" means a lot of cheating.
From all I could find the NFL thinks that Spygate took place between August of 2000 and lasted into the 2007 season. The New Englad Patriots used their video department to steal opposing team's signals in Preseason, Pre-Game, and opposing team's practices. Steve Scarnecchia (whom we just fired) was with the Patriots until 2004, and is son of Patriots Assitant Dante Scarnecchia, and was also a roommate of Josh McDaniels at some point in New England.
The Partiots won Super Bowls in 2001, 2003, and 2004. That means EVERY Super Bowl the Patriots won was done so in a time at which they were filming and studying their opponents signals in violation of NFL rules.
The ONLY way they got caught was when Eric Mangini (one time Patriot assistant and then NY Jets Head Coach) knew to look for it and found them doing it from the opposing sideline. This happened in 2007.
The NFL fined the Patriots $250,000, fined Belichek $500,000, and the Patriots lost their first round draft pick in the 2008 draft.
With this in mind and seeing that McDaniels and Scarnecchia are good friends and have been dating back to as early as 2001 or 2002, I don't see how the NFL is going to believe that he acted alone and McDaniels had nothing to do with it... I REALLY hope that this doesn't turn out to be a much more involved scandal than it currently is.
People seem to think that the filming is just to study formations, etc, etc...
Wrong, it's used to steal and learn signals for opposing teams during games. Not only does that make the Broncos look horrible but it could cost us draft picks, and you would think that since the Patriots lost a 1st rounder for the first offense, the second offense by a team could be worse.
I think this act alone should give Bowlen plenty of justification to make a coaching change, team performance aside.
From all I could find the NFL thinks that Spygate took place between August of 2000 and lasted into the 2007 season. The New Englad Patriots used their video department to steal opposing team's signals in Preseason, Pre-Game, and opposing team's practices. Steve Scarnecchia (whom we just fired) was with the Patriots until 2004, and is son of Patriots Assitant Dante Scarnecchia, and was also a roommate of Josh McDaniels at some point in New England.
The Partiots won Super Bowls in 2001, 2003, and 2004. That means EVERY Super Bowl the Patriots won was done so in a time at which they were filming and studying their opponents signals in violation of NFL rules.
The ONLY way they got caught was when Eric Mangini (one time Patriot assistant and then NY Jets Head Coach) knew to look for it and found them doing it from the opposing sideline. This happened in 2007.
The NFL fined the Patriots $250,000, fined Belichek $500,000, and the Patriots lost their first round draft pick in the 2008 draft.
With this in mind and seeing that McDaniels and Scarnecchia are good friends and have been dating back to as early as 2001 or 2002, I don't see how the NFL is going to believe that he acted alone and McDaniels had nothing to do with it... I REALLY hope that this doesn't turn out to be a much more involved scandal than it currently is.
People seem to think that the filming is just to study formations, etc, etc...
Wrong, it's used to steal and learn signals for opposing teams during games. Not only does that make the Broncos look horrible but it could cost us draft picks, and you would think that since the Patriots lost a 1st rounder for the first offense, the second offense by a team could be worse.
I think this act alone should give Bowlen plenty of justification to make a coaching change, team performance aside.