Belicheat fined 500,000 and draft choices...*Merge*

[Nors]

Losing a first round draft pick is pretty harsh.

I do think they could have sent a sterner message with a suspension.

 

[sago1]

Does anybody think for a minute that this will stop Belicheck? Heck no. There's is nothing more then a wrist slap. Had the Cowboys been found guilty of this there would have been demands for Jerry to give up the Cowboys, etc.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

This really smells like playing favorites to me. Worst call of his short tenure as commish.

Just plain awful!

Wait a minute! They lose a draft pick only if they make the playoffs?

Wow! Just Wow!

 

[Mattinus]

Again, the real punishment takes care of itself.
The crime was disgusting from a sport lovers standpoint but the real punishment will be the public ridicule if they don't do well this year, or if they lose close games.

 

[ZeroClub]

You know, I thinks this shows how Goodell went way over top with the penalty he gave Wilson....

 

[Tex]

I can not believe there was no suspension and Wade got 5 games. Unbelievable!

Tex

 

[Big Dakota]

Sure it will because they will be giving up their own pick and the pick they had from another team was from a team that as I recall probably won't have a great record this year. (I forget the team).

It's from SF who should be 8-8 and picking in the teens, and lets hope the commish takes that pick.

 

[Mattinus]

You know, I thinks this shows how Goodell went way over top with the penalty he gave Wilson....

I think this is all it REALLY shows.

 

[Vertigo_17]

uke:

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

You know what he's gonna say. Wade broke the law, stealing signs isn't breaking the law. I don't really agree, but that's what he'll say.

I agree that its not the same but thats where my agreement ends.

The integrity of the game... the unfair competitive advantage, cheating. This is of Pete Rose proportions. I am not comparing the events... I am merely pointing out there severity to the game.

Bottom line: Games were won via cheating. This cannot be denied.

All the SB losers vs. the Pats have legitimate "hmmm's" about their games...

The Eagles, Panthers and Rams...

 

[Hoov]

what people need to do is send letters expressing their feelings on this or get a petition or something. Its time to raise awareness that this is clearly playing favorites, if a lot of people respond it will be embarassing for the comish, if nothing else.

 

[dogunwo]

I am still in shock. This is ridiculous. I hope the Pats go like 9-7 now, to show the rest of the league about how much they are cheaters.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

I think the Cowboys ought to approach the Commish on behalf of Wade Wilson and ask again if its right for him to get a 5 game suspension and Belicheck gets nothing. Also Wilson got a $100,000 fine which is probably close to half his salary while $500,000 probably isn't 1/4 of what he makes.

Never thought this Commish wouldn't at least suspend him for 1 game.

Well at least now we know who owns the NFL. Maybe we should start calling it as it really is - Kraft's Own.

I agree. Jerry Jones has to have called Goodell already.

 

[CowboysNumeroUno]

so if they do make the playoffs, will there be only 31 picks in the first round of the next draft?

 

[AdamJT13]

I can not believe there was no suspension and Wade got 5 games. Unbelievable!

Here's what Goodell said about suspending Belichick -- "I have determined not to do so, largely because I believe that the discipline I am imposing of a maximum fine and forfeiture of a first-round draft choice, or multiple draft choices, is in fact more significant and long-lasting, and therefore more effective, than a suspension.”

Hey Roger, why not all of the above?

 

[ddh33]

I would be fine with all of that. I do believe a suspension was warranted. In fact, I think it was demanded by those actions, especially when you consider who has already gotten suspended and for what.

As a basketball fan, I don't want Goodell to become David Stern. Randomly and selectively doling out punishment is not something fans want. This is borderline.

 

[Big Dakota]

Well he went max on the fine, so that is OK, nothing more he could do there. They will make the PO's, so they get a 1st rounder taken away and that is what my guess was. But the real uproar is the non-suspension. But as another poster said, They already soiled their name.

 

[sacase]

IF congress wants to investigate something about sports they need to investigate this.

 

[Nors]

Wonder what NFLPA says about a #1 Pick being obliterated.

 

[ddh33]

Roger meet David Stern. You guys seem way too similar right now.