ESPN report blows open lid on SpyGate

In fact, many former New England coaches and employees insist that the taping of signals wasn’t even the most effective cheating method the Patriots deployed in that era. Several of them acknowledge that during pregame warm-ups, a low-level Patriots employee would sneak into the visiting locker room and steal the play sheet, listing the first 20 or so scripted calls for the opposing team’s offense. (The practice became so notorious that some coaches put out fake play sheets for the Patriots to swipe.)

Numerous former employees say the Patriots would have someone rummage through the visiting team hotel for playbooks or scouting reports. [Patriots video employee Matt] Walsh later told investigators that he was once instructed to remove the labels and erase tapes of a Patriots practice because the team had illegally used a player on injured reserve.

At Gillette Stadium, the scrambling and jamming of the opponents’ coach-to-quarterback radio line — “small s—” that many teams do, according to a former Pats assistant coach — occurred so often that one team asked a league official to sit in the coaches’ box during the game and wait for it to happen. Sure enough, on a key third down, the headset went out.

Of course one can alway respond to anon smears yeah right.

The reported was started when the now discredited Wells report was released.

How bout ESPN investigating the lie by Dean Blandion about the NFL not being informed about the allegations by the Colts re ball psi, the lies leaked by the NFL to Mortenson and KIng, the lie by D Gardi to the PAtriots after the COlts game? THe lie by Goodell in his decision about Brady’s testimony (note he didn’t know the judge would release the transcript he ordered sealed.

THere are many documented incidents of the NFL lying and leaking throughout this process, just as the NFL leaked and smeared people in the Incognito case ( the ex Dolphin line coach is suing for defamation of character). YEah all the leaks and lies prior to the SB to distract and smear the team, now their lapdogs at ESPN, post another undocumented hit job just before the opener, when coincidentally Goodell is appearing on ESPN the same day. small world.

I am sure the NFL will reward them with a better Monday Night Football schecule as a reward.

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