because he's good friends with bob kraft
The penalty was very harsh. The Broncos lost a few third rounder's for cheating the salary cap during there sb runs. Same with the niners. The fact is this was not that big a deal and the media hype train drove the story.
The commish looked at all the info he requested and found no harm with any of it dating back to 2001. The pats where fined for a violation of league rules. People don't get that what they did was not illegal. Trying to steal or decode signs is perfectly legal. Having a video camera on the field to do it was not. The irony here is scouts use high speed cameras, binoculars and dictaphones to do the same exact thing. Thats perfectly legal tho
Its tomatoes / tomato's mang. The pats payed the price.The Commish said the tape had no outcome on any games. It was stated by Belichick they taped signals for later use. After an investigation in which the commish found no harm no foul on 75 tapes dating back to 2001 I would think MAYBE thats what they where doing.
If there had been some kind of advantage caused by tapes during any previous games the commish would have punished them further like he said he would. Jimmy Johnson was just on the radio last week telling people how he taped signals 15 years ago.You know that the comish worked for the jets right? If he chated for Kraft maybe he made something out of nothing for the jets. Since he is friends with the owner of that team also.
People hate the patriots and this was just a tool for a smear campaign. Every week some tool cries the pats did this, the pats did that. Waa waa waaa waa.