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[QUOTE="Ward, post: 1470521, member: 1958"]
I saw these Bill Simmons tweets too and didn't really understand his point so figure I'll ask you since you seem like you might be a Pats fan and posted them here.

What does Carolina's record the year before or the year after their SB run have to do with them not deserving an equal playing field in SB38?

Why does Philly not playing perfect down the stretch mean that any possible advantage NE potentially had in the preceding points of the game no longer matter?

Why does Pittsburgh playing bad on special teams render the advantage given to NE's defense completely void?

Same with the Colts, Rams, and any other team who has a gripe at the alleged actions by the Pats. You can't take one piece of the game and then say because "Team A" wasn't perfect in this regard then it doesn't matter if the other things happened or not they still would've lost anyways. You've mentioned how a lot of people wouldn't go on record but there were also quite a few people who did and said pretty alarming things. At this point with all the smoke surrounding these accusations for years now it's pretty tough for me as a neutral 3rd party to say Pats are just a victim of their own success and the jealousy it provokes.

I live in Boston and have been surrounded by Deflategate and the whole time have thought it was completely ridiculous. Seeing this report come out now makes a lot more sense as to why Goodell was so blindly stubborn in trying to stick it to NE. The ESPN version makes a lot more sense than the previously communicated version of Spygate as well. Reading both the SI and ESPN report makes me think for the first time ever that Goodell really may be on thin ice.
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