Walsh Gives NFL 8 Tapes of Pats Cheating

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Originally Posted by irishjayhawk

Umm, the penalty was a first round pick. Regardless of a trade, the #7 pick was the PATRIOTS pick. So it's fair game.

They fine you a first round pick. You have two first round picks. The higher one is the one that should be chosen. How does that not make sense?

Obviously it does to you because you want to exact the maximum vengeance. In theory they could have tried to take whatever they want. The entire 2008 draft. The next 10.

But they do have more to worry about than keeping irishjayhawk happy. They exacted the heaviest punsihment, BY FAR, on any team in NFL history. Sorry if it wasn't enough for you, but perhaps you should weigh in your scales of justice the fact that it's not at all clear that this entire thing was either (1) isolated to the Patriots, or (2) all that significant in terms of determining outcomes of games.

You want the death penalty for what may well end up being driving 60 in a 55. I'm not sure that's all it was, but you're not sure either.