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Should The Patriots Be Disqualified From The Super Bowl?
Re: Should The Patriots Be Disqualified From The Super Bowl?
One thing I'm definitely interested to see in the aftermath of this, is what Tom Brady does this offseason. I think if he knew about this, he's a lock to stay with the Pats. But he's got a window to leave this spring because of the contract restructure they just went through. If I'm Tom Brady and I had nothing to do with deflating the balls, I get the hell out of Foxboro and go to a franchise that is not known for this sort of horsecrap.
Re: Should The Patriots Be Disqualified From The Super Bowl?
i think you have to suspend bellicheat for a year. See the bountygate scandal which was not so much an integrity of the game issue, but a game safety issue. Nobody ever proved that Sean Payton had any clue what was going on, yet they laid the hammer on him for that issue. That should be precedent enough (especially given prior bad acts) to suspend the coach for at least a year.
that being said... No, i do not believe they should forfeit the game, etc
Re: Should The Patriots Be Disqualified From The Super Bowl?
Frankly, i kind of hope the pats do win and that brady and belichick see everyone looking at that podium with the skepticism in their eyes and the disgust. the interviews real short. the tv's all going off immediately. The nfl seeing that propping this team up over the years hurt the league in the long run. For cheaters, i think they do all this hoping to not get caught but when they get caught and they win, that's when they know the real shame. and it can't be passed on. we don't get to revel in it. it's theirs and theirs alone. And frankly, i hope that pain comes to them because they won and that it stays and hurts forever.
if the pats win, i think most fans who have been vehemently against the cheating and how it was swept away would start just giving up. i turned off the AFC championship game because its' the same crap. Brady got hit hard and there was a flag for a totally legal hit. they protect this team to no end.
i wasn't tryin to send them a message to the league, but it is no longer fun to see if teams can beat them when the pats get every single break. You know that teams can't beat them. The pats always get to the top eventually given the length of the cheating and the bias in officiating.
they have a history of being crappy in the first 4 weeks. i honestly think belichick tries to avoid cheating and do it legit and gets smoked cause he sucks. and then like an addict, he goes back. even in this game, they probably didn't need to do anything. luck was inaccurate and the colts came out nervous. but they screwed around with it anyway. they even tried the substitution crap again just to see if they could sneak it in again.
Let the pats enjoy their "win", and that probably will be the final straw that breaks a lot of fans backs.
Disqualifying the Patriots would be a public relations disaster for the NFL, not to mention a logistical nightmare to get the Colts there and prepared on time.
It's not going to happen.
You're confusing "would" with "should".
It would never happen due to the logistical reasons you stated. Isolating the external circumstances from the crime and punishment portion of the situation, do you think they should be punished and how so?
Re: Should The Patriots Be Disqualified From The Super Bowl?
they should also essentially "audit" a day in the life of belichick. be proactive on the number of things the team is doing. it should be done as a surprise the day of the game, check the helmets, the feeds they are getting, make sure ernie adams like locked out (or his responsibilities clearly sketched out).
To think only 2 things have occured that no other team has been caught with or alleged to do, the next scandal is only a few years away. the NFL should get ahead of it by making the penalties very strict, and putting under the eye of a regulator so they know what other crap is going to be coming/discourage them from trying to bend the rules.
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