05-14-2008, 06:57 AM
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/wr...index.html
[I]Walsh didn't connect the videotaping directly to Belichick. In his conversation with Goodell, Walsh referred to Belichick, eerily, as "the man behind the curtain.'' Goodell said he was told by Walsh that after videotaping opposing signals, he would turn the tapes over to Ernie Adams, a shadowy figure in the front office whose title is "football research director.'' (When Belichick coached in Cleveland, no one knew what Adams did, and owner Art Modell once said of Adams: "I'll give anyone $10,000 if they can tell me what Ernie Adams does.")
Apparently what he did, in part, was try to match signals from coaching staffs to formations and plays, so that the next time the Patriots played the team in question, they might be able to steal signals if the coaching signals had not been changed. Goodell also said Walsh took his direct instruction from Patriots video director Jimmy Dee.
For one, it's clear Goodell thought last September and still thinks now that Belichick was lying when he told Goodell he "misinterpreted'' the rule banning videotaping of opposing teams' coaching signals. Belichick has said he thought he was allowed to videotape coaching signals as long as he did not use the knowledge gained during the same game. That's extremely hard to believe. The rule has been on the books for years, and a year before the Patriots were caught for spying against the Jets, league vice president Ray Anderson issued a memo saying, "Videotaping of any type, including but not limited to taping of an opponent's offensive or defensive signals, is prohibited on the sidelines, in the coaches' booth, in the locker room, or at any other locations accessible to club staff members during the game.'' How someone as thorough as Belichick would not know such a public rule is pretty hard to fathom.[/I]
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[I]Walsh didn't connect the videotaping directly to Belichick. In his conversation with Goodell, Walsh referred to Belichick, eerily, as "the man behind the curtain.'' Goodell said he was told by Walsh that after videotaping opposing signals, he would turn the tapes over to Ernie Adams, a shadowy figure in the front office whose title is "football research director.'' (When Belichick coached in Cleveland, no one knew what Adams did, and owner Art Modell once said of Adams: "I'll give anyone $10,000 if they can tell me what Ernie Adams does.")
Apparently what he did, in part, was try to match signals from coaching staffs to formations and plays, so that the next time the Patriots played the team in question, they might be able to steal signals if the coaching signals had not been changed. Goodell also said Walsh took his direct instruction from Patriots video director Jimmy Dee.
For one, it's clear Goodell thought last September and still thinks now that Belichick was lying when he told Goodell he "misinterpreted'' the rule banning videotaping of opposing teams' coaching signals. Belichick has said he thought he was allowed to videotape coaching signals as long as he did not use the knowledge gained during the same game. That's extremely hard to believe. The rule has been on the books for years, and a year before the Patriots were caught for spying against the Jets, league vice president Ray Anderson issued a memo saying, "Videotaping of any type, including but not limited to taping of an opponent's offensive or defensive signals, is prohibited on the sidelines, in the coaches' booth, in the locker room, or at any other locations accessible to club staff members during the game.'' How someone as thorough as Belichick would not know such a public rule is pretty hard to fathom.[/I]
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