Tell me there is somebody, anybody, out there who is surprised by this. Everybody knows the Patriots have been cheating, all along.
I’m not a big enough football fan to know that this has been common knowledge. But I was always interested in the debate about who the best coaches were and it seemed, after Belichick had such a string of success at New England, that he was being hailed as a big coaching genius and, probably, the real brains behind Bill Parcell’s success at the Giants.
So, I wanted to hear the wise men of FReepdom opine on whether this is telling of something akin to the steroids scandal in baseball. Should Belichick’s coaching record have an asterisk. Conversely, is it no big deal and no worse than watching game film, for example. I really don’t know. It seems to me that it’s a kind of cheating, but I don’t know how serious, how much it affected outcomes, etc.