romeo crennel and spygate??

[MC KAos]

i just saw something about it on the bottom line on sportscenter, anyone see what it said?

 

[Yakuza Rich]

Crennel stated that he never saw anything about videotapes when with the Patriots. Michael Smith is reporting that if the Spygate thing comes to fruition, Goodell could suspend Crennel, Mangini, Rob Ryan, etc. IMO, that would make Goodell a bigger moron as it's they weren't in the position to not use the footage if Belichick okay'd it.




YAKUZA
gets the feeling "Roger the Rube" will be Goodell's nickname pretty soon

 

[MC KAos]

oh ok, thank you for the info!

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

Crennel stated that he never saw anything about videotapes when with the Patriots. Michael Smith is reporting that if the Spygate thing comes to fruition, Goodell could suspend Crennel, Mangini, Rob Ryan, etc. IMO, that would make Goodell a bigger moron as it's they weren't in the position to not use the footage if Belichick okay'd it.




YAKUZA
gets the feeling "Roger the Rube" will be Goodell's nickname pretty soon

Excellent!
First Roger wouldnt suspend Belichick... NOW he may suspend everyone Belichick every came in contact with

Yeah... that'll work.

 

[burmafrd]

Depends on how it was done. crennel said he did not seeany videotapes. Did he mention if they had the other teams signals? And also this whole taping thing seemed much more important to get the Defensive signals, etc. So Crennel being the PATS DC would not have need of the opposing teams DEFENSIVE signals.

 

[lkelly]

The Commish is going to try and sweep this thing under the rug as cleanly as possible. He's probably already regretting the earlier penalty against the Pats. You can expect the company line by the NFL is that nothing substantial happened. The risk of having their product tainted by cheating is much worse than having to accept that the Pats "got away with it." There's too much at stake with television contracts and fan support.

Heck, a nice payoff for Walsh might be all that's left to deal with.

 

[LittleBoyBlue]

The Commish is going to try and sweep this thing under the rug as cleanly as possible. He's probably already regretting the earlier penalty against the Pats. You can expect the company line by the NFL is that nothing substantial happened. The risk of having their product tainted by cheating is much worse than having to accept that the Pats "got away with it." There's too much at stake with television contracts and fan support.

Heck, a nice payoff for Walsh might be all that's left to deal with.

While I agree that Goodell took some suspicious actions in inititally handling spygate... in the grand scheme of things it doesnt matter.

Enough people have an opinion on the this and THAT is enough to breath life into spygate for some time. And the possibility of the Pats cheating in previous SB wins will extend this story for a good while as well.