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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
It sure is.
What I find the most shocking about Spygate and Deflategate is the constant refrain that none of the dirty shit they were clearly doing had much of an impact on any game. How the fuck is this a defense to anything? How does anyone know how much of an impact it had. Given how intricate Spygate seems to have been and the level of risk allegedly taken in Deflategate, why the fuck would they do it if there is no value?
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has to have an impact. If you illegally figure out just one play before the snap, that has a direct impact on the game - NFL games are routinely decided by one or two plays. A successful completion on third down at the 50 turns into an incompletion resulting in a punt. That's one play that had a huge effect on the probability of the opponent scoring. We've all played Tecmo Bowl and know what happens when you call the other team's play.
2. Bill Simmons went on a twitter rant blaming Colts/Eagles/Steelers losses to the Cheatriots on actions or inactions of those teams, as if dumb decisions/plays made by those teams somehow negates the Patriots illegally knowing exactly what those teams were going to call. That's insane logic.
3. I was actually rooting for Brady to win the appeal because Gooddell is such a moron.
