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This is the classic "When did you stop beating your wife" routine. If you refuse to answer the question, you are being evasive and you are suspect. If you dignify it with a response, then you are prevaricating, not being forthcoming, adding fuel to the fire, etc.

The New England Patriots team have had a lot of success over the past 20 years. Most people from other football towns hate them because their own teams have not had the same level of success. Those people will seize on any opportunity to label them cheaters. That just goes with the territory when you have that level of success.

This is the same reason most New Englanders hate the New York Yankees baseball team. The success of the New York Yankees over the past century, not to mention the purloining of Babe Ruth, has come mostly at the expense of the Boston Red Sox. Therefore, most people from Boston have an irrational hatred of New Yorkers.

And so it is with the New England Patriots, who have demolished other football clubs (except maybe the New York Giants) from coast to coast over the past two decades.

The best thing the New England Patriots can do at this time is focus on beating the Seattle Seahawks and find some ways to get an edge over them. I thing we are going to see a reverse flea-flicker in the first half.