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Originally Posted by Amnorix
I know Patriots hating is in vogue, but you guys need to pay attention a little better before spouting off. The Pats admitting all this ages ago, so Walsh's tapes prove NOTHING that they didn't already ADMIT ***AND*** were punished for this past year.
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"consistent with what we already knew" doesn't mean they knew precisely which games were taped. It just means that - "yeah, we knew they taped opposing teams." If the NFL's position was that they knew the Pats taped every single game since Belichick took over, then that was not made clear to the fans.
The statements issued by the league and Belichick were certainly drafted in a manner to insinuate only the Jets game was at issue.
"This episode represents a calculated and deliberate attempt to avoid longstanding rules designed to encourage fair play and promote honest competition on the playing field," Goodell wrote in a letter to the Patriots.
["This episode" makes it look like a single episode.]
Belichick responded with a statement shortly after Goodell's ruling became public.
"As the Commissioner acknowledged, our use of sideline video had no impact on the outcome of last week's game. We have never used sideline video to obtain a competitive advantage while the game was in progress."
[Again, Belichick specifically references the outcome of "last week's game".]