The everybody cheats argument is one Im simply not buying. By this logic no one ever should be committed of murder, because hey, everybody has thought about killing somebody once or twice.
Next time any of you get pulled over for speeding, do me a favor. Tell the cop that everybody speeds on this road. Then come back and let me know how that worked out for you.
True, but it is then the league's duty to take away the willingness to cheat. To your point, would an Olineman hold every time if his team is going to go backwards ten yards each time? Of course not, so they try not to hold. Would you do steroids if there was no risk? Yes. What if you are going to die young and lose the chance to play the game by getting caught? Not so much.
The Patriots continue to cheat because they have never been properly deterred. They were caught in '07 and learned the lesson that under Roger Goodell, dishonesty does pay. At the same time, the Saints were hit hard for breaking rules, and nobody associated with that scandal would ever go near a bounty program again, but the Pats got away light, and if the whole Rice video never surfaced, that would have also been swept under the rug.
Attica! Attica! Attica!
Yup... the penalty for cheating this time must be sufficient to deter future cheating (like the penalty for Bountygate was sufficient to deter future bounties) because the last time New England was penalized for cheating it wasn't nearly effective enough as a deterrant.
Steeler teams featuring stat-driven, me-first, fantasy-football-darling diva types such as Antonio Brown & Le'Veon Bell won no championships.
Super Bowl winning Steeler teams were built around a dynamic, in-your-face defense plus blue-collar, hard-hitting, no-nonsense football players on offense such as Hines Ward & Jerome Bettis.
We don't want Juju & Conner to replace what we lost in Brown & Bell.
We are counting on Juju & Conner to return us to the glory we once had with Hines & The Bus.
prediction....a fine or nothing. it will be a slap on the wrist. Kraft and Belicheck have laid down the gauntlet. The NFL will not take them on without real evidence of cheating. If they take a draft choice, it will be a 7th rounder (but I doubt that will happen).
Even if Bill Belichick was getting an atomic wedgie, his face would look exactly the same.
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