{"id":8117,"date":"2019-12-16T18:22:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T18:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=8117"},"modified":"2019-12-16T18:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T18:22:31","slug":"patriots-are-out-of-excuses-nfl-does-the-right-thing-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/nfl\/patriots-are-out-of-excuses-nfl-does-the-right-thing-in-dallas\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Are Out Of Excuses, NFL Does The Right Thing in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BY ADAM GREENE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In an exclusive with Fox Sports, Jay Glazer did his job as a journalist and unveiled a video of the New England Patriots\u2019 staffer recording the Cincinnati Bengals\u2019 sideline during their game against the Cleveland Browns on Dec. 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In case you didn\u2019t know, the Pats\ntried to explain this all as a mistake. A film crew sent to video a\nscout for \u201cDo Your Job.\u201d Only the guy running the camera was\ndoing another job, obviously, recording\nCincy\u2019s coaches on the sideline<\/a> in a clear violation\nof NFL rules and one New England has been busted doing before. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The tape is eight-minutes\nlong<\/a> and, at no point, shows the \u201cscout\u201d that was\nsupposed to be featured in the segment. It\u2019s obviously an attempt\nby New England to cheat, here as their season is faltering, and go\nback to the \u201cmagic\u201d that handed them three undeserved Super Bowl\nchampionships to open their \u201cdynasty*.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pats have tossed the producer of\nthe video, Dave Mondillo, under the bus and\nsuspended him<\/a> as they continue to try to distance\nthemselves from what is obvious, on its face, to anyone with working\neyes and ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roger Goodell, who carried the Patriots\u2019 water during the original SpyGate investigation and even ordered the destruction of all evidence involved, said that he\u2019ll not make a judgment until the investigation is completed. Last time New England was fined $250,000 and lost their 2008 first round pick. Bill Belichick was fined $500,000. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s different this time is that we have the evidence, the recording in question, before Goodell could get his grubby little hands on it and set it on fire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

How seriously this is taken, and how Goodell responds, will likely be determined by NFL owners outside of Robert Kraft and the Patriots. Hopefully, they\u2019ll demand the hammer come down hard. There\u2019s no excuse this time, no innocent argument that makes any sense after viewing the video. They did it again. They spied on an opposing team in order to get a competitive advantage and should be punished accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REF SCREWS UP COIN FLIP IN COWBOYS-RAMS GAME, NFL FIXES IT<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Walt Anderson is 67 years-old and has no business being allowed to referee and NFL game. That\u2019s one year past the United States\u2019 retirement age. Anderson should be drawing his social security, not screwing up the most basic aspect of his job on national television. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But that\u2019s what happened Sunday afternoon when Anderson, because he is too old to be refereeing a professional sport, didn\u2019t hear Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott plainly say \u201cdefer\u201d and not only awarded the Los Angeles Rams the ball to open the first half, but also the second. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

First off, the idea that the actual words a player uses can screw up something so basic and integral to the game is something the NFL should look to change in its rulebook. At no time would a team want to give the opposing team the ball to open the game and open the second half. The fact that a player can just pick the wrong phrase at the coin flip and make that happen is completely insane. It\u2019s 2019. There\u2019s no excuse not to fix it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But regardless of that, Prescott used the correct term, \u201cdefer.\u201d Only old man Anderson didn\u2019t hear it with his old ass ears and nearly turned the game into more of a farce than it eventually turned out to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NFL league office stepped in and made the right call<\/a>. The Cowboys got the ball to begin the second half and all was right with the world for a moment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for Anderson, it\u2019s obvious the NFL needs to remove him from reffing anything. Old Man Anderson is a guy you unveil as the Phantom of AT&T Stadium at the end of a Scooby Doo episode. He\u2019s not the guy you hand America\u2019s Game of the Week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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