“I think they’ve addressed everything they possibly can address. … We addressed so many questions so many times from so many people I don’t know what else the league could ask.”
Considering NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is moving at tortoise pace on offering an immunity deal to former Pats assistant coach/video gofer Matt Walsh, we of course have no way of knowing if what Belichick claims is true. Goodell confirmed for the first time that the NFL spoke again with Belichick and other Patriots employees after the Super Bowl.
“We followed up on other things because certain things had been tossed out.”
Walsh, through his lawyer, Michael Levy, has been negotiating with the NFL for legal protection, from lawsuits by the Pats or the league, to come forward to talk. Levy and the league reported three weeks ago that they were close to an agreement to do that, but talks have been sporadic since, the story notes.
Meanwhile, the Belichick spin-o-meter continues to run at full tilt:
“I barely knew Matt Walsh. He was hired before I became the coach.”
He conceded he should have contacted Ray Anderson, the NFL’s vice president for football operations, after a memo from Anderson in 2006 that laid down the specifications for intelligence gathering.
“What I should have done … I should have called the league and asked for a clarification,” he said. “That was my mistake.”
He said that in one respect, Spygate did the Patriots a favor.
“We’ve taken it as a positive and reorganized our operations to make sure a situation like this never comes up again,” he said. “Our operation is more efficient, more streamlined. Look at the results of this season. That would confirm it.”
Well, then, does the loss to the Giants disprove anything?
That said, it’s time to once again run our “if Kurt Warner sues the Patriots” poll:
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