Does anybody else see something wrong with this picture?

However, Goodell’s overreaction and severe punishment for what was a minor, minor rules infraction was, no doubt in my mind, motivated by his contempt for the fact that Belichick would dare ignore his memo(s).

The fact that he punished the Pats so severely for what was a minor offense opened the floodgates for the media (and fans and players of teams previously vanquished by the Pats from 2001-2004) to begin the rampant speculation and accusations about how the Super Bowl wins were “tainted.”

I mean, when using a video camera to steal signals (which most teams instead do with a binocular and a notebook from the press box) is punished more severely than SF and Denver cheating on the salary cap and subsequently winning Super Bowls with those illegal rosters, you know something is askew in the world of NFL justice….the severe punishment was all about Goodell’s ego and his desire to make an example of Belichick vis a vis ignoring the memos–he can’t possibly think that what the Pats did was more significant a rules violation than salary cap cheating.

Hopefully, the next domino to fall will be Red Light Goodell, whose over-the-top reaction to the whole thing kick-started the entire media firestorm and chatter about “tainted titles”–simply because he was ticked off that Belichick ignored one of his precious memos.

Kraft is very influential at those owners’ meetings–maybe, just maybe, when Commissioner Red Light’s term comes up for renewal, Kraft will attempt to stage a coup.

I’d love to see it happen.

Bruce had the Herald hiring the new guy on Friday – two days before profootballtalk.

I still wish Kraft had refused to grant any Herald employee a press credential unless Thomase was removed from all Patriots coverage.

in effect, no in reality, Tomase acted below the standard of care of the average reasonable journalist in the same situation, as established by those other journalists. Were he in an actual profession which policed itself, or had ohjective standards/tests to establish knowledge or proficiency, he would have at the very least been suspended, if not removed, from the profession for his egregious failure to act as a reasonable journalist.

He simply no longer has journalistic credibility.

The Herald calls:

“Hi, we see that you used to be a subscriber. Would you be interested in re-subscribing?”
“Does John Tomase still work for the paper?”
“Um…….I’m not sure….I can check.”
“No, he does. No thank you.”