Which is the argument that stupid people ALWAYS make when they don't have an actual argument to rebut what is presented: straight to ad hominem. Why are they stupid? Because they're inherently biased, too. Predicating your argument on bias when you have your own is pointless because ultimately all it serves to effect is ad hominem against oneself.
Are you a stupid person? Did you stupidly buy into Spygate last year because of your bias? That's okay. Happens to us all. It's the smart people who will realize that it's time to course correct. It's already become one of the great running jokes of sporting injustice waged as a wag-the-dog affair of political convenience for the league's commissioner, and the rest of the NFL's front office. Nobody look at Ray Rice behind the curtain! Look at how tough we are on Tom Brady and Adrian Peterson!! Hell, Bill Nye owned himself in a scientifically inaccurate diatribe on this very subject (probably for no other reason than because Brady and Belichik were known Trump supporters, and Nye has difficulty with controlling his own political...wait for it....bias).
I don't know why so many NFL fans can't seem to handle the Patriot's undeniable greatness and (legitimate, fair) domination over the league, but for some reason, many can't.
Well, you're clearly a Pats fan. lol.
Spygate didn't happen last year, and it also wasn't just about New England taping signals. They were taping playbooks, team walkthroughs (the most famous walkthrough tape being that of the Rams the day before the Super Bowl), play sheets, etc... Do you think that the NFL would send men into Belichick's office to destroy the evidence of all the shit they were doing if they were only taping opponent signals? It was a blatant cover up. They went to Mike Martz after spygate broke out, who was long retired and lives in the boonies on a ranch somewhere, and asked him to make a public statement to try to downplay spygate. Martz spoke out about Goodell himself reaching out to him. "
He told me, 'The league doesn't need this. We're asking you to come out with a couple lines exonerating us and saying we did our due diligence,'". A congressional inquiry that would put league officials under oath had to be avoided, Martz recalls Goodell telling him. "
If it ever got to an investigation, it would be terrible for the league". Martz says he still had more questions, but he agreed that a congressional investigation could kill the league. So in the end, Martz got in line. He wrote the statement that evening, and it was released the next day, reading in part that he was "
very confident there was no impropriety" and that it was "
time to put this behind us."
This shit had been going on for years under Belichick and there is way more to spygate than any New England fan will ever acknowledge. Belichick would send a low-level Patriots employee to sneak into the visiting locker room and even hotel rooms to steal the play sheet, which listed the first 20 or so scripted calls for the opposing team's offense. Some coaches caught on and actually planted dummy play sheets hoping to fool Belichick after his runner picked it up. At Gillette Stadium, the scrambling and jamming of the opponents' coach-to-quarterback radio line occurred so often that one team asked a league official to sit in the coaches' box during the game and wait for it to happen. Sure enough, on key third downs and crucial moments, the headset went out. During games, Ernie Adams sat in the coaches' box, with binoculars and notes of decoded signals, wearing a headset with a direct audio line to Belichick. Whenever Adams saw an opposing coach's signal he recognized from the stolen playsheets, he'd say something like, "Watch for the Two Deep Blitz," and either that information was relayed to Brady or a play designed specifically to exploit the defense was called. And that isn't even the half of it.
So, yeah. I don't care what their retarded "cheat score" says. No team has "cheated" to the extent that New England has. Not even close. They've completely compromised the legitimacy of the game of football. That's the reason why they are hated.
