worstsbcalleva":22kavnc9 said:
Of course aderol is always ok and that is not cheating. Stickem on jerry rices hands when not allowed...not cheating...steroids ...not cheating....the team that rules the leaugue for 15 years 9 afc championships...they cheated their way there i suppose...1 word of course...jealousy.
Of course aderol and stickem are cheating. It doesn't make it right just because your team might be the one under scrutiny. All you can do as a team, coaching staff and FO is address the problem and do your best to get rid of it.
The patriots are again under scrutiny because they choose to knowingly cheat and don't stop until they are forced to. The league had to enact rules for the super bowl to stop their eligible lineman crap and the deflated balls is again another case of the Patriots ignoring the rules that other teams play by.
Seattle had a rash of PED violations a few years ago when Pete was building the team. It was an environment rich in competition and the best possible place for an unknown or unheralded player to make a squad he normally wouldn't even have a legitimate shot at. Some of those players took matters into their own hands and cheated to try and gain an advantage for the purpose of making the team. Seattle dealt with it by removing the element. Every single player that has a PED violation and has been up for FA has been let leave with zero attempt to resign. Not flashy, it was a quiet way of sending the message without national headlines. One of those players that we let walk (Brandon Browner) is wearing a super bowl ring from this year because even though he was very talented and would be dirt cheap to sign, the Seahawks organization isn't willing to win that way. Obviously the Patriots don't have the same standard.
All that said there is still a big difference in deflating footballs, taping opponents sideline signals, tampering with radio signals (something your team was under investigation for when spygate broke) in an attempt to steal opponents play calls and doing all these things until they are forced to stop and putting illegal stickem on your gloves or a player on your team taking a substance to try and gain his own advantage.
It's still all cheating but their is a big difference between an individual doing something on his own for his own gain and a team steeped in a rich history of cheating.
But don't kid yourself if the fumble information since 2007 doesn't become common knowledge it is only because the NFL is afraid of the damage that information would do but you and all of us who know about it are not fooled and nothing will change that.
Congrats on the super bowl victory. You guys deserved the win but that doesn't change the fact your organization is only who it is because of cheating.
Oh and don't bore us with the 15 years of dominance. Your division has awarded you 6 victories a year. Take away Spygate, the tuck rule, deflated footballs and many other factors and your organization has done nothing impressive. In fact with all the #1 and #2 seeds you have had with that 6 game head start it really is amazing you haven't accomplished much more.
