Why Spygate isn't over yet

Posted: Wednesday May 14, 2008 05:26AM ET

Matt Walsh may be off the hook, but SpyGate isn't over yet. The league is planning to re-interview former Patriots defensive assistant Brian Daboll, currently the Jets' QB coach, because of questions surrounding the infamous walkthrough. In his meeting with Goodell, Walsh admitted he was on the sideline during the Rams' walkthrough - in Patriots garb, no less - preparing his equipment for the game. Walsh told Goodell he didn't tape the session and wasn't instructed to spy, per se, but he revealed that Daboll quizzed him afterward. Walsh told Daboll he noticed that star running back Marshall Faulk was returning kickoffs, league attorney Gregg Levy said. (Faulk did, in fact, return one kickoff in the game.) Daboll also asked Walsh about the Rams' offensive formations, particularly the role of the tight end, according to Levy, who said the Walsh-Daboll conversation lasted less than 10 minutes. "What Matt Walsh told us was inconsistent with our prior understanding," league spokesman Greg Aiello said in an e-mail. "Brian Daboll did not tell us that."

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If they had anybody with a good law enforcement backround running an investigation, this would have been cleaned up months ago. And these wimps probably would have turned like leaves and more would have come out. Lets pray it is over soon.

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Its going to be a long season for the Pats

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Wow, keep beating Eight Belles. This means NOTHING.

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NFL and Patriots have a new advertizing deal with Mabeline Cover Up. Removes all blemishes from sight.

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*yawn*

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Wow, keep beating Eight Belles. This means NOTHING.

Blackglass3 | 05/14/08, 06:51 AM

You have a very good point... but man was that wrong. Its ok though, because I have a sick sense of humor too.

In the end, who cares? Isn't it the same as when you send someone incognito to another teams training camp? And if someone tries to say that doesn't happen is kidding themselves. Yes, taping is wrong. But telling someone what you saw isn't a big deal.

Hey look... the sun just rose in the east... someone want to put me in front of a congressional panel? I am SOOOO glad our tax dollars are spen ton worthwhile things... unlike feeding the poor and helping us with the price of gas.

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It's over!!!!........Please say it's over!!!!

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Okay, Ferrell, it's over.

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Okay, Ferrell, it's over.

ThreadSlayer | 05/14/08, 08:04 AM

Thank you!!!

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Pats taped signals. Pats were caught and a huge punishment was given. Walsh doesn't have anything else to show. Specter is an Incompetent bozo excuse for an elected official. Goodell needs to let this go. The media needs to let this go and the goodball post editor should be fired. End of Story

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It ain't over because people at espn and the New York Daily News need jobs.

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You mean thats all? you mean no more punshments? Oh please they can`t get away with this.......they need to give them more because if they don`t and they get away wiht it. who says others teams are not going to do they same and try to get away wiht it?.no this is not over

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You mean thats all? you mean no more punshments? Oh please they can`t get away with this.......they need to give them more because if they don`t and they get away wiht it. who says others teams are not going to do they same and try to get away wiht it?.no this is not over

Grossedout9 | 05/14/08, 08:19 AM


other teams DID do it and they DID get away with it....thinking the Pats are the only team that tried taping signals is like believing that the Raiders are the only team that ever had players using steroids....

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Could the NFL blow this situation and their handling of it any more? I don't want to know. I am so tired of this story at this point.

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So Walsh was setting up his equipment while watching the Rams practice. I guess this single moment in NFL history was the beginning of the Patriots' success. What NFL team does Walsh work for now? Obviously, he's a football genius.

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oh yeah by the way, this too, from the Boston Herald (both full page front and back pages):

"APOLOGY

On Feb. 2, 2008, the Boston Herald reported that a member of the New England Patriots [team stats]??? video staff taped the St. Louis Rams??? walkthrough on the day before Super Bowl XXXVI. While the Boston Herald based its Feb. 2, 2008, report on sources that it believed to be credible, we now know that this report was false, and that no tape of the walkthrough ever existed.

Prior to the publication of its Feb. 2, 2008, article, the Boston Herald neither possessed nor viewed a tape of the Rams??? walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI, nor did we speak to anyone who had. We should not have published the allegation in the absence of firmer verification.

The Boston Herald regrets the damage done to the team by publication of the allegation, and sincerely apologizes to its readers and to the New England Patriots [team stats]??? owners, players, employees and fans for our error."

so bottom line the Pats got caught putting cameras in an area not acceptable anymore...

Grossedout....you gotta get a life, pal, especially now that everyone else is apologizing....don't expect you to do that, though, you're too busy trolling for responses to your droll and pendant comments...

Loki, don't waste your time with this guy, we're going 19-0 this year....

by the way, Eli will lead the league in INT's this year...

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The Boston Herald has NEVER in it's history, issued an apology like that.....

Pat's Haters, time to move on and get a new schtick...

Even Peter King from ESPN is looking like a jerk on this one....

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Even Peter King from ESPN is looking like a jerk on this one....

BobBoston |

Even Peter King? You must have a very generous definition of the term.

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Even Peter King from ESPN is looking like a jerk on this one....

BobBoston | 05/14/08, 08:37 AM

So because he believes illegally taping signals of the opposing team is cheating he is a jerk. Read his column. He makes a good point about what he believes and why he believes it is wrong.

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Bob...dude...come on. Your team ran roughshod through the NFL with a certain arrogance and classless attitude, and then lost to the underdog NY Giants in the biggest game in NFL History, and you expect the rest of the United States and even the World to just forget about it?

People will be hating on the Patriots forever, my man. Get used to it! The same way I've learned to just ignore all the Dallas Cowboys haters.

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