Bill Simmons final thoughts on Spygate (1 Viewer)

[stickboy]

Now that it's finally finished, I think we learned three lessons from Spygate beyond the obvious one that "it's a bad idea to cheat because you might end up losing a No. 1 pick and getting fined $500,000":

1. In retrospect, maybe it's a bad idea to put too much stock into the deranged claims of a former third-level video assistant who's hoping to get paid for interviews even though he's not comfortable showing what he "has."

2. If you had a sister who wanted to get engaged to someone who got fired from his low-ranking NFL job and moved to Hawaii to become an assistant golf pro, you would take her out to dinner, urge her not to take the plunge and make it clear you think she's ruining her life for a complete loser. But if that same complete loser claims to have evidence that can bring down an NFL team, we should all believe him for a few months, no questions asked.

3. If you have a national column in which you're excoriating a sports team for cheating even though it already paid a severe penalty for what it did, and you're hinting more revelations are coming down the road, and then it's proven you were barking up the wrong tree ... you need to admit defeat and quit blowing the situation out of proportion. No, really.

 

[aposulli]

Now that it's finally finished, I think we learned three lessons from Spygate beyond the obvious one that "it's a bad idea to cheat because you might end up losing a No. 1 pick and getting fined $500,000": 1. In retrospect, maybe it's a bad idea to put too much stock into the deranged claims of a former third-level video assistant who's hoping to get paid for interviews even though he's not comfortable showing what he "has." 2. If you had a sister who wanted to get engaged to someone who got fired from his low-ranking NFL job and moved to Hawaii to become an assistant golf pro, you would take her out to dinner, urge her not to take the plunge and make it clear you think she's ruining her life for a complete loser. But if that same complete loser claims to have evidence that can bring down an NFL team, we should all believe him for a few months, no questions asked. 3. If you have a national column in which you're excoriating a sports team for cheating even though it already paid a severe penalty for what it did, and you're hinting more revelations are coming down the road, and then it's proven you were barking up the wrong tree ... you need to admit defeat and quit blowing the situation out of proportion. No, really.

What perspective changed? He wasn't talking about himself in that last point.He's basically just ripping into Walsh which I'm sure he's been itching to do for months now.IBT "OMG Bill Simmons is so bias, Pats are cheaters, Belichick is evil, Brady sucks OMG"