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Patriots: Commish Determines They Violated League Rules
Published 9/11/2007 at FanIQ Blog
... Source: (ESPN)

The Patriots Cheat
Published 9/11/2007 by The Feed at The Feed
... DeLillo isn't likely to send an older Cotter Martin to Sunday's Patriots-Jets game for the opening of his next novel but if he was it looks like he would have been present for two tainted contests. Word out of NFL offices is that Roger Goodell has determined that the Patriots did illegally videotape the Jets during Sunday's game. ...

Goodell: Pats Broke Rules
Published 9/11/2007 by matt at Matt's Pats Blog
... ESPN has reported that commissioner Roger Goodell has "determined that the New England Patriots violated league rules Sunday when they videotaped defensive signals by the New York Jets' coaches, according to league sources." ...

Patriots Games
Published 9/11/2007 at ESPN.com - NFL Nation - Blog
The NFL apparently is very hot over the Patriots' taping of Jets defensive signals Sunday. As our own Jeffri Chadiha wrote earlier this summer, there's a ...

Patriots Caught Cheating
Published 9/11/2007 at About Football
... ' bench as the team sent in defensive signals. NFL security confiscated the video camera and videotape, and shipped it to commissioner Roger Goodell, who, in turn, invited Patriots head coach Bill Belichick to New York for a little sit-down. Tuesday ESPN's Chris Mortenson confirmed that Goodell has concluded the Patriots did in fact violate rules that all teams had specifically been warned about by the new commissioner. And now the team faces sanctions that could include the loss of multiple draft picks, suspensions, and/or fines. In my view, players who give themselves a competitive advantage through illegal sources (and are caught) are suspended and fined, so the same should apply in a situation such as this. If Belichick knew about this, which it's hard to imagine he didn't, then he should be suspended and fined. And as a deterrent to others who might be tempted to do anything similar in the future -- or are alre ...

Confirmed: The Patriots are indeed cheaters
Published 9/12/2007 by BigBlueShoe <info@stampedeblue.com> at Stampede Blue: Front Page Posts
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Patriot Games
Published 9/12/2007 by Footballguys and hosts Cecil Lammey and Sigmund Bloom at Footballguys Blog
... With the NFL’s confirmation this afternoon that the New England Patriots have violated league rules by videotaping the Jets defensive signals in this past Sunday’s game, the natural follow up question becomes, what might the penalty be? ...

ESPN report
Published 9/12/2007 at Reiss' Pieces
... ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has determined the Patriots violated league rules by filming the New York Jets' defensive signals in Sunday's season opener. ...

Signal-Stealing Update
Published 9/12/2007 by 6thround <info@patspulpit.com> at Pats Pulpit: Front Page Posts
... ESPN is reporting that NFL Commisioner Roger Goodell has confirmed that the Patriots broke league rules when a team official was in possession of a video camera on the sidelines during Sunday's Jets game. The Patriots have until Friday to present their argument re: the specific intent of the use of the camera. Potential penalties could include a suspension for team employees, fines, and loss of future draft picks. ...

New England Patriots, Cheaters, 3.0
Published 9/12/2007 by Wrigleyville at wrigleyville23
Just because the smuggidity of their fans bothers me so, I'd like to revisit the cheaters cheaters pumpkin eaters that are the New England Patriots (the league now believes they cheated, by the way). ...

I Spy A Cheater
Published 9/12/2007 at ESPN.com - NFL Nation - Blog
... Now that we know what the Patriots' film crew has been up to, we should take a look back at the most famous spy in league history, the late Rams and Redskins head coach George Allen. ...

Patriots Caught Cheating; Lions Were On to It Last Year
Published 9/12/2007 by Sean Yuille <info@prideofdetroit.com> at Pride Of Detroit: Front Page Posts
... The Patriots were caught videotaping the Jets' defensive signals during a 38-14 win on Sunday, and Roger Goodell is set to punish New England. ...

Did the Patriots cheat to win Superbowl 39?
Published 9/12/2007 by BleedGreen <info@bleedinggreennation.com> at Bleeding Green Nation: Front Page Posts
... Then today, maybe an even more damning story broke. ESPN has confirmed that the Patriots cheated in their week one game against the Jets by illegally taping their defensive calls. ...

Football cheating goodness: Patriots in trouble
Published 9/12/2007 by DMZ at The Cheater's Guide to Baseball Blog
... I’ve been gleefully following the Patriots-Jets controversy, because it’s interesting and because it brings out interesting contrasts in how the two sports handle this. Here’s Chris Mortensen’s ESPN story. ...

Patriots -- Cheaters
Published 9/12/2007 by HM at Hoops and Other Pop Culture
... http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3014677 ...

NO HEART
Published 9/12/2007 by Earl at The GYS Network
... Meanwhile, this whole Patriots thing really confuses me. They're arguable the best team in football, and so the whole thing makes no sense. One upside: one of the people complaining about the Pats cheating is ...

Blog buffet: Pats did break the rules, Vaughn withdraws Imus suit, Carr sucks
Published 9/12/2007 by NDub at Construda
Who's this goober you ask? Some guy who came up when we Yahoo! image searched Roger Goodell. ESPN's Chris Mortensen is reporting that Der Beauftragte Roger Goodell determined the New England Patriots broke NFL rules on Sunday by filming defensive signals from New York Jets coaches. The punishment is likely to be draft picks. But how many? And how high? (ESPN) ...

If You're Not Cheating...
Published 9/12/2007 by Caps Nut at Bleatings From a Caps Nut
So we now know why New England Patriot's Head Coach Bill Belichick has become such a genius, he's stealing other team's signals. ...

The Debriefing: Bill Belichick ... Genius, Evil Genius, or Dirty, Dirty Cheater?
Published 9/12/2007 by mjd at FanHouse
... ESPN reports that NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has determined that the Patriots broke league rules before NFL security officials confiscated a camera and a videotape from a Patriots assistant who was believed to be videotaping the Jets defensive signals. ...

Patriots Cheat: Great Story By BigBlueShoe
Published 9/12/2007 by Jetfighter <risolam@yahoo.com> at NY Landing Strip
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East Coast Tabloids Having Fun With Bill Belichick
Published 9/12/2007 at SPORTSbyBROOKS
BELICHICK'S PEEP SHOW IS EAST COAST TABS' HEADLINER: SPORTS BUSINESS DAILY notes that the East Coast tabs today are having fun with Bill Belichick's propensity to peep (and cheat?): Meanwhile the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL reports NFL PR guy Greg Aiello refuted ESPN and NFL Network reports that the Pats had broken league rules by filming Jets' sideline signals on Sunday. Aiello also specifically denied a Chris Mortensen report that " no official determination made and that the Patriots had not been notified of any decision, nor has head coach Bill Belichick been summoned to league offices " to meet on Friday with Commissioner Roger Goodell. UPDATE: The AP reports ...

Stampede Blue Contest: Best Patriots Excuse!
Published 9/12/2007 by BigBlueShoe <info@stampedeblue.com> at Stampede Blue: Front Page Posts
... The Patriots have until Friday to explain themselves to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell after they were caught using a video camera to capture the NY Jets signals on the sideline in New England's 38-14 thrashing of the Jets. Between now and Friday, Stampede Blue will have a contest to see which is the best excuse the Patriots will offer Roger Goodell! Please feel free to offer your own excuses in the comments. We'll vote on the best on Thursday. I've picked a few ones ...

Why I hate the Patriots
Published 9/13/2007 by Ush at The Gil Meche Experience
... Combined with Rodney Harrison's HGH use and suspension along with the recent Patriotsgate, the illusion of the Patriots as a shinning example of integrity in the sports world should be over. ...

FOOTBALL: Bill Belichick's Patriot Act
Published 9/13/2007 by Baseball Crank at Baseball Crank
... The news that Jets coach Eric Mangini caught Bill Belichick in the act of stealing the Jets' defensive signals via video camera in violation of NFL rules presents a number of interesting issues. For obvious reasons, the NFL isn't going to go back and start forfeiting games or kick Belichick out of the league, but the penalty does have to be real and stiff to discourage this sort of thing from happening; the NFL has talked about docking the team draft picks, and a first round pick would be a sufficiently stiff penalty that it should be included. And yes, the penalty should fall on the team as a whole, since this was an operation involving multiple people from the head coach on down for the benefit of the club. ...

Could Belichick Be “Docked Points” For Cheating?
Published 9/13/2007 by Dave at Dave's Football Blog
... It pleases me to no end to see a smug bastard like Bill Belichick get caught violating NFL rules by videotaping his opponents’ defensive signals. The whole thing has brought into question whether Belichick is the coaching genius everyone claims he is, or whether his genius is in using technology to create a wiretapping ring so complex that AT&T wants to hire him as a consultant for ...

Belichick has cheated since 2000
Published 2/14/2008 by BigBlueShoe <info@stampedeblue.com> at Stampede Blue: Front Page Posts
... Now, let's not beat around the bush here boys and girls: This is a very serious set of circumstances, and the two people who look the most foolish out of all this (and who should swing for it) are Bill Belichick and Roger Goodell. Goodell claims Belichick did the taping thinking it was legal, even though the NFL rule book makes it pretty clear, in black and white, that it's illegal to do such taping. The "I didn't know it was illegal" argument was used by Billy Boy back in September, when the NFL caught him taping the NY Jets in the first regular season games. The argument was ...

Spygate: Who Cares?
Published 5/9/2008 by Hot Rod! The Rowdy One (noreply@blogger.com) at Out of Bounds
... , etc...). Instead I decided to talk about the one thing that has everyone's attention in the NFL right now; Spygate. ...