Patriots Cheating Again by Recording Sideline?
New England Patriots Adulterous History
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TL;DR:
• the PATRIOTS are Bear upon Below AVERAGE NFL cheaters!
• they have a CheatScore of 27 ?
• they've executed 8 existent cheats! ?
• share folio: http://YourTeamCheats.com/NE ?
INDEX OF RECORDED PATRIOTS CHEATS:
All New England Patriots Cheats:
PEDSgate (6x since 2007) 
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Team: The New England Patriots
SEVERITY: 
SUMMARY: Performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) are used by players to illegally better athletic performance above what legal training and preparation tin can exercise.
Players who illegally improve their performance unfairly penalize players who follow the rules. They non only put those players at risk for physical injury, only they also affect their economical livelihood by impacting their perceived value and their ability to secure appropriately-valued playing contracts.
SEVERITY = 0.five video cameras per punished incident. Includes all documented infractions from 1960 to nowadays with this Wikipedia folio every bit the master source.
- South Rodney Harrison (2007)
- LB Brandon Spikes (2010)
- DE Jermaine Cunningham (2012)
- RB Brandon Boldin (2012)
- DE Rob Ninkovich (2016)
- WR Julian Edelman (2018)
VICTIM: The entire league
PUNISHED? Aye
PUNISHMENT: Each player was suspended for 4 games for violating the league's PEDs policy.
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AWARDS EARNED: Echo The Crook!
CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + 6.0
Spygate (2007) to meridian ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵
Team: The New England Patriots
SEVERITY: 
SUMMARY: The Patriots were disciplined for videotaping their September ix, 2007 regular-flavour 38-14 road victory against the New York Jets from the incorrect location. The Patriots filmed from an unapproved sideline location instead of from an approved indoor location.
Coincidentally, the Jets had engaged in the same filming activity during their November 12, 2006 regular season game confronting the Patriots in Foxborough. During that game, a Jets cameraman was caught filming the game and Patriots signals and removed from the stadium. A year after, as a form of payback, the Jets flagged the Patriots for the same activity.
Videotaping your opponents offensive and defensive signals during a game is not prohibited past the league, even today. However, there are places in the stadium where you lot are allowed and not allowed to film from. According to the 2007 NFL Game Operations Manual, legal game videotaping locations "must be enclosed on all sides with a roof overhead."
VICTIM: New York Jets (and Roger Goodell'south ego)
PUNISHED? Yeah
Penalization: As punishment for filming the game from the incorrect location, NFL commissioner and former Jets public relations intern Roger Goodell fined Patriots head autobus Bill Belichick $500,000, fined the Patriots $250,000, and docked the team their original kickoff-round selection in the 2008 NFL Draft.
Why was the Spygate penalty so high? Pocket-sized moving picture: because Goodell was really pissed-off that he told Belichick to practise something and Belichick ignored him. Since it was his starting time year as commissioner, he really, really wanted people to respect his authoritah!
Big picture: considering parity across all 32 NFL teams is in the best involvement of the league. The Patriots dominating the league in the bacon-cap era was disruptive to these franchises, a threat to ratings and, ultimately, to league advertising revenues. Docking the Patriots a commencement-rounder was a concrete fashion for Goodell and the other 31 owners to try and restore parity. A similar dynamic played out 8-years later with the irrationally big Deflategate penalisation.
Exercise you however think Spygate was the biggest cheating scandal in NFL history? Then this page is for y'all.
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CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + 5.0
IRgate (1986) to top ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵
Squad: The New England Patriots
SEVERITY: 
SUMMARY: In 1986, the New England Patriots lost a third-circular draft option for the illegal use of the injured reserve list.
VICTIM: The entire league
PUNISHED? Yes
Punishment: The Patriots lost a 3rd-round pick for the illegal use of injured reserve list.
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CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + iii.0
Snowplowgate (1982) to acme ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵
TEAM: The New England Patriots
SEVERITY: 
SUMMARY: On December 12, 1982, the Dolphins and Patriots played the "Snowplow Game" in the middle of a New England blizzard. Conditions were then bad that the teams combined to endeavour just 11 passes, while rushing got them a combined 375 yards and nil touchdowns. Through the beginning three and a one-half quarters, the ii teams just attempted two field goals: both unsuccessful.
With just over iv minutes left in the game and the Patriots nigh to effort some other field goal, the stadium snowplow operator Mark Henderson -- who by mutual agreement had been immigration off the yard markers throughout the game -- veered from his line cleaning duties and cleared a spot on the field for New England kicker John Smith.
Dolphins charabanc DD Don Shula* went apeshit on the sidelines, but Smith made the kick and the refs immune information technology. The Pats won 3-0.
A niggling known fact virtually the game from participant and Patriots Hall of Famer John Hannah: "The Dolphins were too offered the employ of the snowplow by the head referee to clear the field for their concluding kick, just with complete indignation and certainty the game would exist nullified for the unfair use of it by the Patriots, Autobus Shula* doggedly refused to stoop to such tactics" and chose to play as the field lay.
As the Dolphins drove down the field for a potential game-tying field goal, Henderson drove the snowplow with them, remaining at the prepare for the phone call from the referee to articulate a spot for Dolphins kicker Uwe Von Schamann. On fourth downward, however, Shula* decided to go for it and failed, effectively securing the game for the Patriots.
The act wasn't a alienation of NFL rules as in that location was no rule in place forbidding it. A twelvemonth later on, still, the NFL banned the utilize of snowplows on the field during games. In a 2007 interview for an NFL Network segment well-nigh the game, Shula* recalled protesting what he perceived as an "unfair" act, to which Commissioner Pete Rozelle responded that without a rule explicitly barring such use of the plow, the act wasn't illegal.
VICTIM: Miami Dolphins (Only because they refused the same snow-clearing for their own field goal attempt)
PUNISHED? No
PUNISHMENT: The head referee offered the verbal snowfall-immigration advantage to Shula* and the Dolphins on their final field goal attempt. Commissioner Pete Rozelle also confirmed that there was no rule cleaved.
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CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + 2.0
IRgate (2013) to top ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵
Squad: The New England Patriots
SEVERITY:
SUMMARY: Reported Micheal David Smith of ProFootballTalk.com: "2 quondam Patriots say the squad put simulated data almost them on official injury reports."
"Brandon Spikes and Aqib Talib have both said since leaving New England in free agency that when they were on the Patriots last year, the team gave them injury designations that weren't accurate. Spikes ended last season on injured reserve with a knee injury, and at that place were reports that Patriots double-decker Bill Belichick actually put Spikes on IR because Spikes had shown up belatedly to do. Spikes seemed to confirm that in an interview on WGR in Buffalo."
Said Talib: "The Patriots accept their fashion of reporting stuff, but I haven't had a hip problem since Tampa, the injury I had was really a quad injury. It was reported as a hip injury, but that's how they do things."
VICTIM: The entire league
PUNISHED? No
Penalisation: This could just be the bitching of ii disgruntled ex-employees or information technology may actually exist "how they do things" upwards in Foxborough. We'll assume that it is somewhere in the center. The league never investigated the claims and the Patriots were never penalized for the accusations leveled by Talib and Spikes.
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CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + two.0
Leapergate (1961) to top ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵
TEAM: The New England Patriots
SEVERITY: 
SUMMARY: As recounted in the ballsy Simon and Schuster tome "Football Hall of Shame" and fortunately recorded by an early-adopting AV vitrify:
"In the endmost moments of an AFL clash between the visiting Dallas Texans (forerunners of the Kansas Urban center Chiefs) and the Boston Patriots, the Texans were trailing 28-21 when they attempted a last-ditch flea flicker. The pass sailed 70 yards and was defenseless past Chris Burford, who fought off three defenders and cruel on the Boston 3-yard line.
"Thousands of eager Patriots fans, thinking the game was over, ran onto the field. But the referees said in that location was time for one more play. The spectators were hustled off the field but allowed to band the end zone. Somehow, 1 rabid rooter managed to slip unnoticed into the Patriots secondary.
"Earlier the fan was detected, Dallas quarterback Cotton Davidson took the snap and fired a laissez passer to Burford in the end zone. The ball never reached the receiver. Instead, the fan-turned-defender leaped into the air and tipped the ball away as the concluding gun sounded. And so he disappeared into the cheering crowd.
"Incredibly, in all the confusion, none of the officials spotted the fan'southward interference. None of the Texans did either, except for Davidson. But his cries of protest fell on deaf ears. Fifty-fifty his ain coach, Hank Stram, wouldn't heed to him.
"When moving picture of the fame was developed, however, there was no dispute -- the camera had defenseless the fan in the act of deflecting the laissez passer and ruining the Texans' bid for a game-saving touchdown.
"No i knows for sure who the Leaper was. Merely, says Patriots spokesman Dave Loftis, with natural language in cheek, 'The fable has grown around hither that it was actually [Patriots owner] Billy Sullivan.'"
VICTIM: Kansas City Chiefs
PUNISHED? No
Penalisation: "No one knows for certain who the leaper was...but CHEAATRIOTTTS!!11!"
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CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + 1.0
Walkthroughgate (2002) 
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Squad: The New England Patriots
SEVERITY: 
SUMMARY: In 2008, the local Boston tabloid, The Boston Herald reported -- citing an unnamed and unverified source -- that the New England Patriots had videotaped the St. Louis Rams' February 2002 walkthrough do prior to Super Bowl XXXVI. The allegation was vehemently denied by Patriots head motorbus Nib Belichick and the Patriots organization.
The Boston Herald later best-selling its mistake saying "we at present know that this report was false." The newspaper issued a front page apology for running the story without sufficiently verifying its source or the charges (page browse for posterity.)
NFL commissioner and sometime Jets public relations intern Roger Goodell, subsequently coming together with Patriots video human being Matt Walsh and fifty other people, cleared the Patriots of whatever wrongdoing saying "we were able to verify that there was no Rams walkthrough record" and "no one asked him [Matt Walsh] to tape the walkthrough. He's not aware of everyone else who may have taped the walkthrough. He had non seen such a tape. He does not know of anybody who says there is a tape."
This alone false and irresponsible news story is responsible for Marshall Faulk's (and other haters') ongoing fantasy that the Patriots recorded his team'south practice and subsequently stole the Super Bowl from him and his squad. Give it up Marshall, you lost to the babe QB GOAT and the head coach GOAT. Deal with it.
VICTIM: New England Patriots
PUNISHED? No
Penalization: When you are consistently outplayed and outcoached by the same squad yr-after-year (or worse, lose to them in a Super Bowl) yous WANT to believe -- you Need to believe -- that the only reason you can't lucifer up is because of some mysterious Patriots' black magic voodoo cheating.
To keep your sanity, you brand up fairy tales to soothe yourself. I get that, I really do. I used to feel the same way about the New York Yankees when they were good. I sympathize.
Unfortunately for you, though, your tidy niggling bedtime story is a lie. Find yourself a good therapist to aid you bargain with your issues instead. Get well presently.
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AWARDS EARNED: All Blowed Up! Falsely Accused!
CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + 0.0
Deflategate (2015) to summit ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵
TEAM: The New England Patriots
SEVERITY:
SUMMARY: Immediately after the Indianapolis Colts were blown out (again) past the Patriots, this time in the 2015 AFC Title game, Colts reporter Bob Kravitz bankrupt a story that the NFL was investigating the Patriots for using underinflated footballs in the game.
Soon after, Chris Mortensen hastily reported, based upon a at present-discredited leak from the league, that eleven of the Patriots' 12 game footballs were deflated 2 PSI below the 12.5 PSI minimum legal requirement (Mortensen finally removed his inaccurate tweet on August 4, 2015 -- 195 days afterwards he posted it.)
BREAKING: @mortreport has deleted his inaccurate Deflategate tweet https://t.co/xF98O64nNA
— WEEI (@WEEI) August four, 2015
Two weeks subsequently, on the morning of the Super Bowl, NFL Network's Ian Rapoport corrected this data, reporting that simply one of the 11 footballs was 2 PSI under the limit, while many were "merely a few ticks under the [12.5 PSI] minimum."
According to ProFootballTalk, the one football that was 2 PSI under the limit was the ball intercepted by D'Qwell Jackson and taken to the Colts sideline and ultimately submitted to the NFL to launch an investigation. The NFL chose not to investigate whether the Colts intentionally manipulated that football before submitting it.
107 days later, NFL independent investigator special prosecutor Ted Wells gave up his search for concrete evidence and guessed that there was at least a 51% take chances that the Patriots might accept been involved in the deflation of the game footballs.
Facts, schmacts, who needs them? Exercise you just know in your hairy beer-gut that a team with the Patriots' spotty cheating history absolutely did this? This folio is just for you. I retrieve you'll like it.
UPDATE ane: On May 14, 2015 council for the New England Patriots issued a comprehensive rebuttal to the Wells Report. Ane pregnant point was that the Colts broke a written league dominion when they tested the air pressure of the intercepted football during the game. The Wells Report never flagged that as an effect.
UPDATE two: On May 21, Sally Jenkins of The Washington Post published the best Deflategate assay to date showing how Goodell took an insignificant rule infraction and trumped information technology up to a franchise-smearing scandal to save his own hide.
Jenkins wrote:
"NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell predetermined guilt in DeflateGate; that's articulate now. He has smeared Tom Brady and the New England Patriots without proper prove or a competent investigation and turned an unimportant misdemeanor into a dissentious scandal as function of a personal power play to shore upwards his flagging dominance. In other cases, he merely looked inept. In this ane, he looks devious."
UPDATE three: On June 12, The New York Times published an op-ed titled "Deflating 'Deflategate'" which summarized an analysis of the Wells Report done by an contained think tank called the American Enterprise Plant (AEI).
The AEI "On the Wells report" concluded:
"When nosotros analyzed the data provided in the Wells report, we constitute that the Patriots balls declined past most the expected amount [ed. note: based on the Platonic Gas Law], while the Colts balls declined by less. In fact, the pressure level of the Colts balls was statistically significantly higher than expected."
"This implies that the Colts assurance sat in the warm room where they were to exist measured — and thus increased in pressure — for almost the entirety of halftime before being measured."
"Logistically, the greater modify in pressure level in the Patriots footballs can exist explained past the fact that sufficient fourth dimension may have passed betwixt halftime testing of the ii teams' assurance for the Colts assurance to warm significantly, effectively inflating them."
In early August, after all of the facts had been revealed, the league office leaks discredited and the not-really-independent Wells Report fully debunked by truly contained tertiary party research organizations, ESPN's Skip Bayless had this to say:
More than I hear, more I believe Goodell railroaded Tom Brady, framed him, used media to wrongly convict him in court of public opinion. Travesty
— Skip Bayless (@RealSkipBayless) August 3, 2015
VICTIM: New England Patriots (This was nothing more than an NFL orchestrated hit-chore on its premier franchise and Caprine animal QB)
PUNISHED? Yes
Penalty: Later on 107 days, 12 hours, 8 minutes and 7 seconds, NFL independent investigator special prosecutor Ted Wells speculated (after giving his "independent" written report to the league to edit) that someone on the Patriots was "more probable than non" involved in the possible deflation of game football game used in the first one-half of the AFC Title game vs. the Colts, and quarterback Tom Brady was probably "at least by and large enlightened" of this.
Wells reported that the Colts and the NFL had setup a premeditated sting operation on the Patriots which immune the league time to test all xi of the Patriots game footballs at halftime, but only left enough time to exam 4 of the Colts assurance. Interesting enough, one official found that 3 out of 4 of the Colts footballs were also underinflated to an illegal PSI, fifty-fifty though they had known about the sting beforehand.
On May 11, 2015, the NFL suspended Patriot quarterback Tom Brady for four games for failing to cooperate with the investigation (by non turning over contents of his personal telephone) and for existence "at to the lowest degree generally enlightened" of the "more probable than not" ball deflation that the Well report felt wasn't caused by the cold weather. The team was also fined one one thousand thousand dollars and docked their 2016 kickoff round and 2017 quaternary round picks.
Patriots' owner Robert Kraft responded to the proclamation past expressing his and the squad's full back up of Brady and condemning the "1-sided report" and its "dismissal of the scientific evidence."
Brady announced his entreatment of his pause on May 14, 2015. Goodell, after decided that he would Apparently be the best person to impartially handle the entreatment of his completely fabricated case, upheld the suspension on July 28, 2015. On July 29 the NFLPA filed an entreatment on behalf of Tom Brady in federal court.
UPDATE: On September iii, 2015, U.S. Commune Courtroom Guess Richard Berman issued a ruling that overturned the NFL's four game suspension of quarterback Tom Brady. Berman'south decision was premised upon several significant legal deficiencies in the NFL's case, including (A) inadequate find to Brady of both his potential subject (four-game suspension) and his alleged misconduct; (B) deprival of the opportunity for Brady to examine one of 2 atomic number 82 investigators, namely NFL Executive Vice President and Full general Counsel Jeff Pash; and (C) deprival of equal access to investigative files, including witness interview notes.
NFL commissioner and former Jets public relations intern Roger Goodell (ego-bruised and unwilling to give up on his piddling witch-hunt) filed paperwork to appeal Berman'south determination in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Excursion.
In this case, unlike many other ball-manipulation cheats, the team did not acknowledge to cheating and in that location was absolutely no shred of evidence showing non-weather condition manipulation.
SUMMARY: Later the release of Tom Brady's appeal transcript on Baronial 4, 2015 and Judge Berman's ruling on September iii, 2015, it became clearly that the NFL but lied, twisted, misrepresented and leveraged its profound ignorance to effort to smear the reputation of one of its all-time nifty players for a yet-undisclosed reason. There is no prove of cheating past Brady or the Patriots. In that location is, all the same, numerous examples of disgusting behavior by Goodell and the league office.
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AWARDS EARNED: All Blowed Upward! Everyone Was Doing Information technology!
CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + 0.0
Formationgate (2015) to top ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵
Team: The New England Patriots
SEVERITY:
SUMMARY: After their January 10, 2015 AFC Divisional Game against the New England Patriots in Foxborough, Baltimore Ravens head charabanc John Harbaugh -- clearly upset that his team had just blown two carve up fourteen-point leads to the eventual 2015 Super Basin Champions -- claimed that the Patriots' substitutions and declarations of eligible/ineligible receivers were "deceptive," a thinly-veiled euphemism for cheating.
When asked nigh the charges, Patriots head coach Nib Belichick -- looking utterly stunned that a fellow NFL double-decker could be and so ignorant of the game rules -- stated that the formations were completely legal. After a thorough review of the game, the NFL confirmed that the plays were completely legal.
From CBS Boston's Michael Hurley'southward excellent coverage of the incident:
"Despite John Harbaugh's complaints, the Patriots did not run a hurry-up on the drive when they swapped out a lineman for a running back or tight end. Instead, Josh Kline jogged to the sidelines, and Danny Amendola jogged on. Shane Vereen approached the referee, declared himself ineligible, the referees appear information technology, the Patriots huddled and then went to the line."
"The ineligible receiver had been appear; the Ravens weren't smart enough to leave him alone. Instead, they left Michael Hoomanawanui (a very eligible receiver) wide open up. The play was so successful that the Patriots ran it two more times — once with Hoomanawanui equally the ineligible guy, and once more with Vereen."
"The second time that Vereen was used as the ineligible receiver, Referee Bill Vinovich actually announced, "Number 34 has been declared ineligible. Do not cover number 34." The referee really told the defense force which thespian they shouldn't cover and the Ravens still covered him! And this is all Beak Belichick's fault. Because Spygate. Good stuff."
To date, charabanc Harbaugh has non filed a grievance with the league about the Patriots other "deceptive" plays from the game, including:
- a number of "play-action" passes where the Patriots deceptively faked a run and then actually threw the ball
- a handful of quarterback pump fakes where Brady tried to play a joke on the defence force that he was throwing to ane receiver while actually intending to throw to an entirely unlike one
- an uncountable number of plays where Patriots wide receivers head bobbed left when they fully intended to go right
- and don't even get him started about that Edelman grab and pass, there'southward no manner that was legal!
2015 UPDATE: Later their 2014 playoff loss to the Patriots, the Ravens pissed and moaned about New England'south "deceptive" play calling, and fifty-fifty petitioned to have the NFL change the rules. However, in their September twenty, 2015 game confronting the Oakland Raiders (which they also lost) the Ravens used a strikingly similar "deceptive" play. Simulated is the sincerest grade of flattery.
VICTIM: Baltimore Ravens
PUNISHED? No
Penalisation: At that place was no penalization considering the Patriots' substitutions were completely legal. Belichick was simply playing chess while Harbaugh was playing checkers.
After the season concluded, the league members considered a proposal from the Ravens to simplifying the "eligible/ineligible" rule so Harbaugh and the Ravens could amend understand information technology.
In March 2015 the NFL competition committee did in fact vote to impaired-down the dominion for Harbaugh, the Ravens and the other teams who had a hard time with the original version. An anonymous league source said that they even wrote a summary in crayon for them, using pictures and cartoon characters for some of the bigger words and more complicated concepts. Despite all this, rumor has information technology that Harbaugh still has no idea what the dominion says.
If this rule change doesn't end the Patriots from winning, the league will increase enforcement of this one instead.
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AWARDS EARNED: Falsely Accused!
CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + 0.0
Tuckgate (2001) to superlative ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵
TEAM: The New England Patriots
SEVERITY:
SUMMARY: The "Constrict Rule" was in place three years earlier the Raiders vs. Patriots playoff game on Jan 19, 2002. Information technology was enforced against the Patriots before in the same flavour in a game against the Jets. Other notable instances were in Redskins vs. Broncos (2005) and Chiefs vs. Ravens (2011).
Co-ordinate to Wikipedia:
The tuck rule was called in Calendar week two of an NFL regular season match-up on September 23, 2001, betwixt the New England Patriots and the New York Jets. In the waning minutes of the second quarter, Patriots' defensive end Anthony Pleasant apparently forced Jets quarterback Vinny Testaverde to fumble the ball. Patriots' defensive end Richard Seymour made a recovery. The call was overturned upon review and ruled an incomplete with the tuck rule cited. The Jets would go along to tie the game with a field goal on that drive and so somewhen win in overtime.Patriots caput coach Beak Belichick referred to this game after the subsequent Tuck Rule Game, telling ESPN, "I knew what the ruling should have been considering we had dealt with that play a little bit before in the yr on the other side of it."
The rule was in the books from 1999 until 2013.:
NFL Rule three, Department 22, Commodity 2, Annotation 2. When [an offensive] player is property the ball to pass it frontward, any intentional forward motility of his arm starts a forwards pass, even if the histrion loses possession of the ball equally he is attempting to tuck it dorsum toward his body. Also, if the thespian has tucked the ball into his body and then loses possession, information technology is a fumble.
The NFL competition commission repealed the dominion with a 29-1 vote in March 2013. The Steelers voted against repeal and the Redskins and Patriots abstained from the vote. Said Patriots owner Robert Kraft near the dominion: "I love the constrict rule, and forever will."
VICTIM: The entire league
PUNISHED? No
PUNISHMENT: Non a crook.
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AWARDS EARNED: Falsely Accused!
CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + 0.0
Tampergate (2015: Revis) to tiptop ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵
Squad: The New England Patriots
SEVERITY:
SUMMARY: The New York Jets, in a humorous display of ignorance as to what Tampering actually is, filed a merits confronting the New England Patriots and owner Robert Kraft for comments he made about losing cornerback Darrelle Revis. The NFL ruled in April of 2015 that the Patriots did not tamper. The Jets, notwithstanding, were fined $100,000 as punishment for their actual tampering with Revis.
The charge was believed past about respectable NFL personnel to exist a trivial and misguided response to the Patriots' legitimate tampering charge against Jets owner Woody Johnson, who unwisely made a textbook tampering argument most wanting to reacquire Revis.
Kraft said, near losing Revis in free agency to the Jets: "Nosotros thought we made a very competitive offering. I speak as a fan of the New England Patriots — we wanted to keep him. We wanted him in our organization, and we have sure disciplines. We had hoped it worked out. Information technology didn'€™t." When Kraft made his statement, Revis was at least three-years away from hitting the market again, having but two-weeks prior signed a 5-year / $70 million / $39 million guaranteed contract (yikes) with the Jets.
For comparison, Johnson offered this subtle statement about his desire to bring back Revis: "Darrelle is a bang-up player. I'd love for Darrelle to come dorsum." When Woody said this, Revis was simply iii-months away from becoming one of 2015's hottest gratis agents.
The actual NFL tampering dominion gives this as an case of a prohibited tampering quote (PDF, see page 3 "Public/Individual Statements"): "He's an excellent player, and we'd very much like to have him if he were available, but some other guild holds his rights."
VICTIM: New England Patriots (This was just pure Jets stupid)
PUNISHED? No
PUNISHMENT: Tampering rules prohibit: "any public or individual statement of interest, qualified or unqualified, in another club'€™due south actor to that player'€™s amanuensis or representative, or to a member of the news media." Woody tampered, admitted he made a error, and was punished for it. Kraft did not tamper and was therefore not punished.
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AWARDS EARNED: Falsely Accused!
CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + 0.0
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to elevation ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵ Team: The New England Patriots
SEVERITY:
SUMMARY: On September x, 2015, after losing to the New England Patriots in the get-go to the 2015 NFL flavor, Pittsburgh Steelers head charabanc Mike Tomlin passive-aggressively accused the Patriots of cheating by screwing upwardly his (NFL supplied, managed and operated) coach-to-jitney headsets.
Said Tomlin when asked near the malfunction: "That'southward always the instance [when playing in Gillette]." The Steelers' official website went even further, saying:
"This is the kind of stuff that happens to the visiting squad in Gillette Stadium all the time. From the start of the game through the opening 14 minutes of the commencement quarter, the Steelers' coaches' headsets were receiving the Patriots Radio Network broadcast of the game. The broadcast was so loud that the Steelers coaches were unable to communicate, and the NFL dominion is that if 1 team's headsets are not working the other team is supposed to be forced to have their headsets off. It's what the NFL calls the Equity Rule. Strangely enough, whenever an NFL representative proceeded to the New England sideline to shut down their headsets, the Steelers headsets cleared. Then as the representative walked away from the New England sideline, the Steelers' headsets once more started to receive the Patriots game broadcast."
In an shockingly out-of-grapheme defence force of the Patriots, the NFL immediately released a statement maxim that, despite Tomlin's accusation, the Patriots had zilch to exercise with the malfunction. NFL vice president of football communications Michael Signora's statement:
"In the offset quarter of tonight's game, the Pittsburgh coaches experienced interference in their headsets caused past a stadium power infrastructure issue, which was exacerbated by the inclement weather. The coaches' communications equipment, including the headsets, is provided by the NFL for both clubs use on game solar day. One time the ability consequence was addressed, the equipment functioned properly with no additional issues."
Two days after, the NFL went further and completely cleared the Patriots of any involvement, saying the effect was "entirely attributable to an electrical issue made worse by the inclement weather."
In honour of this latest false allegation, the Commish has commissioned an official chapeau for Coach Tomlin:
VICTIM: New England Patriots
PUNISHED? No
Punishment: Nothing to see hither. This was simply some other false accusation of cheating by a squad looking for an alibi for a loss to the Patriots.
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AWARDS EARNED: Falsely Defendant!
CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + 0.0
Leaguewide Cheats:
Tampergate (ongoing) 
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to top ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵ Squad: All 32 NFL Teams
SEVERITY: 
SUMMARY: Tampering with free agents is rampant, it'due south laughable and it is against the rules (PDF). It'due south so bad across every team in the league that the NFL had to create a three-day legal tampering period. Even so, tampering still regularly occurs long before that annual iii-twenty-four hour period window opens. On March nine, 2015 the league once again felt compelled to warn all 32 teams about not tampering.
Why is tampering considered a problem? Because tampering with players still under contract makes information technology difficult for clubs to re-sign their ain talent. Information technology also puts those few teams that actually follow NFL guidelines at a distinct disadvantage. In many cases, contract agreements are in place days earlier any negotiations are immune to brainstorm.
This isn't fair, it isn't legal, and information technology is blatant cheating by the teams who appoint in the exercise.
VICTIM: The entire league
PUNISHED? No but...
Penalty: NFL commissioner and former Jets public relations intern Roger Goodell is doing all he can to curtail and punish the "commonplace" practice, although information technology admits that at that place is so much tampering that it is difficult to police it all.
The CheatPoints earned for this leaguewide crook is for all of this team's tampering incidents that have gone undiscovered or unproven. If specific instances are discovered, they are punished on tiptop of this leaguewide penalty.
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AWARDS EARNED: Everyone Was Doing Information technology!
CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + four.0
Headsetgate (ongoing) to height ⤴home ⇐awards ⤵
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SEVERITY:
SUMMARY: it'due south a common complaint around the NFL. In late, close games, the helmet communicators of visiting teams all of a sudden "malfunction" and stop working. Information technology has been accepted equally standard practice in the league. Are yous on the road and the game is close? So you are going to accept problems with your headset.
In contempo years, the Patriots have accused the Colts of doing it and the Jaguars accept made the aforementioned charge of the Patriots. The Redskins accused the Buccaneers of disabling their headsets, and Tampa Bay defendant Dallas. The Giants openly bragged about doing information technology mode back in 1956. The charges proceed and on and on.
VICTIM: The entire league
PUNISHED? No
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CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + 4.0
Spygate (until 2006) 
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Squad: All 32 NFL Teams
SEVERITY:
SUMMARY: Stealing your opponent's signals has always been mutual and never been illegal.
Said onetime Pittsburgh Steelers caput motorcoach Bill Cowher, "We had people that always tried to steal signals. Stealing someone'southward signals was a part of the game, and everyone attempted to do that." Admitted former Dallas Cowboys head autobus Jimmy Johnson: "When I came into the NFL, back in 1989, I talked to a Kansas City sentry and he said, 'Here'south what we do, we videotape the opposing team's signals and then we sync it up with the game film.' So I did information technology." Bragged, former Denver Broncos head charabanc Mike Shanahan: "Our guy keeps a pair of binoculars on their signal-callers every game, with any luck, we have their defensive signals figured out by halftime. Sometimes, by the end of the starting time quarter."
NFL commissioner and erstwhile Jets public relations intern Rodger Goodell confirmed this himself in 2008, saying that the issue was not stealing signals, that is allowed "and it is washed quite widely." The issue is where and how you lot record them. If you chose to videotape them, and so (after 2006) you take to practise that from a league canonical location. If you rent lip readers, they can do information technology from your coaches lap, if you want.
After 2006, examples of immune videotaping locations are: the luxury boxes, media booths and other enclosed spaces. Expressly prohibited locations are the sidelines, the field, locker rooms, the coaches booth or any other place accessible to team coaches and staff. The betoken of the dominion is to non allow the footage to be useful in the current game.
Prior to the September 6, 2006 memo and, 2007 follow upwards, from NFL head of football operations Ray Anderson, there was no league restriction on filming location, which is the reason the memo was sent.
Many NFL head coaches have downplayed the significance of the practice, proverb that attempting to decipher opponent's signals was a long standing practice and entirely common throughout the league.
VICTIM: The entire league
PUNISHED? No
PUNISHMENT: NFL commissioner and former Jets public relations intern Rodger Goodell suggested that the responsibility was on teams to conceal their messages, not on the ones trying to steal them. During his news conference before the 2007 Super Bowl he said that any passenger vehicle who did not look signals to be stolen was "stupid."
Prior to 2006, every NFL team is assumed to have done it, merely none of them bankrupt a rule. You lot can't punish something that is non prohibited. Filming from the sidelines was not prohibited until 2006 and filming your opponent's signals from approved locations has never been prohibited, even today.
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AWARDS EARNED: Anybody Was Doing It!
CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + 0.0
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Team: All 32 NFL Teams
SEVERITY:
SUMMARY: Sign an opponent's recently-cutting player to your practice squad to go intel on their plays, signals and tactics. This is not illegal and is a leaguewide practice.
Said ane thespian, who chose to remain bearding as he was nevertheless in the league as of 2015, "If teams accept an opening at a certain position, they might not exist looking for perhaps the best role player to fill information technology on their exercise squad. Instead, they might become for someone who has access to the opposing squad's playbook."
"Allow's say we're playing the Jaguars in 7 days and yous want to know more well-nigh their playbook. From time to fourth dimension teams will sign people off of practice squads. You don't take to put them on active roster so if there's a need for more than depth at linebacker and you're playing Jacksonville, there would be more of a chance to sign a linebacker off the team y'all're about to play'due south do squad and hoping that the person you're well-nigh to sign volition divulge information about the playbook."
VICTIM: The entire league
PUNISHED? No
Punishment: Not illegal.
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AWARDS EARNED: Everyone Was Doing It!
CHEATPOINTS EARNED: + 0.0
EARNED: "All Blowed Upwardly!"
CRITERIA: Be involved in a scandal that is blown way out of proportion by the media and fans of other teams!
EARNED FOR: Deflategate (2015) Snowplowgate (1982) Walkthroughgate (2002) Spygate (2007)
EARNED: "Avert Media Scrutiny!"
CRITERIA: Successfully attract less than 5% of the typical Patriots "cheating" scandal coverage!
EARNED FOR: IRgate (2013)
EARNED: "Everyone Was Doing Information technology!"
CRITERIA: Successfully "cheat" in a style that many other teams have (bonus points for not getting defenseless)!
EARNED FOR: Tampergate (ongoing) Spygate (2007) Deflategate (2015) Spygate (until 2006) Scrapsgate (ongoing)
EARNED: "Falsely Accused!"
CRITERIA: Be the innocent target of a illegitimate adulterous accusation!
EARNED FOR: Walkthroughgate (2002) Formationgate (2015) Headsetgate (2015) Deflategate (2015) Tuckgate (2001) Tampergate (2015: Revis) Snowplowgate (1982)
EARNED: "Goalie for the Dart Squad!"
CRITERIA: Execute a cheat that requires significant anti-intellect to attempt, let alone thinking you'll get away with information technology!
EARNED FOR: Spygate (2007)
EARNED: "Repeat The Crook!"
CRITERIA: Successfully repeat the same cheat multiple times!
EARNED FOR: PEDSgate (6x since 2007)
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