Hey, as for the new cut, you are starting to make me nervous that I have offended you, now apparently numerous times. As I said:

Okay, now I’m just reaching… it isn’t that shocking and, no, he doesn’t look like Homer Simpson.

Although, at the risk of digging further, it was a little shocking for Colin, no? I like his quote.

Before the Chargers game, I heard the same report and worried that the next shoe was going to drop. Then I saw Costas interview Goddell at the Pats-Chargers half time show and I realized by his tone that all he is doing is posturing. He’s saying what needs to be said (that he is going to take a hardline approach) while secretly I think he wants this to go away. He knows that should he perform a full sweep of the Pats then he is going to have to do the same throughout the league and what he uncovers could prove disastrous to the league’s PR.

Just think of the order. “Turn over everything that has to do with spying.” How do you enforce that? If you don’t know what they have – or what you are looking for – then you don’t know if you have received everything. I think it’s an empty threat.

Now if Bill throws the videographer back on the field again, that’s a whole different story. I wouldn’t be surprised if in Belichek’s meeting, Goddell mapped the whole thing out. “I’m gonna’ hit you and the team with a stiff fine. I’m gonna’ take a Draft pick. I’m going to hold you up as an example. I’m going to issue an edict that you turn over everything you have. But I’m not going to suspend you. Bad for the league if we start kicking these stones over.”

Anyway, I think all of the noise you hear is coming from the Belichek haters and the Pats haters. It’s just a tad suspicious that their voices raised an octave after the Pats dismantled the Chargers in a week where absolutely everything the team did was under a microscope. If they were going to lose a game – it should have been that one. This should have been the Milloy/Buffalo game all over again and Tom Jackson should have appeared on ESPN saying “I told ya so. These guys hate their coach.” But that didn’t happen. They dismantled the Chargers. The sounds you hear are jealousy of a well run program.

I think Goddell has to listen to it but he doesn’t have to act unless someone presents undeniable evidence proving more wrong doings. So Belichek just needs to stay squeaky clean and he should be all set.

As for this tarnishing the team, its wins or its legacy – to me, it’s only tarnished in the minds of the haters anyway. I stand behind every single one of those wins. Everyone’s got opinions – but mine’s the only one that counts. Tom Brady said it best – “There are a lot of classless individuals out there.” Well, we don’t have to listen to them.

As for the charges levied at Mangina by the Ravens – I think we are now seeing what we expected – the fraternity of coaches turning on the rat.

Now, had you woken to a chrome dome then we would all be dually shocked. One by your shaved cabeza and two by the inference that I was somehow sleeping in your bed.

Shocking!!!