Matt Walsh has explaining to do
Mar 10th, 2008 by Bill Burt
Who is Matt Walsh?
Well, we are finding out more and more and quite honestly, the reports seem to worsen with each story and investigation.
I haven’t quite figured out why he would need immunity or protection. He was a videotape assistant. He was basically, for a lack of a better term and no disrespect intended, a nobody.
But upon looking at his resume, he has issues. He apparently is a confused guy.
Maybe golf is the niche he fell for later in his 20s, which is not uncommon. I have a brother who is a golf professional in his early 20s after never playing in high school or college. I can understand that attraction.
I’ve covered the Patriots since 1991, and like Bill Belichick I couldn’t pick Walsh out of lineup either. But he did look familiar, as if I had seen him before. I just wouldn’t know where.
Walsh’s resume will be a problem. His job-jumping and impending exit from the Patriots organizating has the look of “a woman scorned,” as English playwright Willliam Congreve noted (William Shakespeare later used it).
For his sake, Walsh had better have proof, as in names, times and Belichick’s statements.
Why does Walsh have tapes and other assorted properties of the Patriots? Lord only knows.
The Patriots, particuarly Bill Belichick, have come out strongly saying they know nothing about Walsh’s “information.”
So the ball is in his court. It had better be a good ball.
3 reader comments to “Matt Walsh has explaining to do”
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1Jim-red sox nation west said:
It is just more ammo for next year. You thought we had some blowouts last year… I cant wait for next season. Im thinking we drop triple digits on the J-E-T-S!!
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2Mike Daly said:
Matt Walsh is a fraud who wants money - that’s his big hangup with the NFL; he wants total indemnity regardless of whether he tells the truth or not. The story alleged of him about taping the Rams walkthrough never made any sense and served only to feed the lynch mob in the media and elsewhere who want Bill Belichick blackballed out of football - and for what? Because he found an interpretation loophole in a three-paragraph NFL bylaw, a bylaw the NFL has never offered a credible justification for (Jeff Fisher’s “Star Wars” answer to why they have to ban sideline taping shows these guys have no clue), a bylaw that didn’t come into effect until 2006, and which the NFL never enforced (no security people patrolling game sidelines for videographers) until Eric Mangini phoned in to the NFL whiner line.
The Globe story today doesn’t reveal a whole lot that wasn’t already known other than some of his pranks pulled on people over the years as well as flesh out some important details about the Rams walkthrough and also how Scott Pioli discovered he was being taped. What struck me was that the story presented overwhelming evidence against Matt Walsh yet its tone still strove to be accusatory against the Patriots - the Globe did the exact same thing in their Kyle Eckel piece last year.
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3Mike Daly said:
Jim - red sox nation west —-
Never mind triple digits, I’ll settle for the Patriots killing the Jets 61-6 like the New England Surge smashed the New York/New Jersey Revs at the Worcester Centram/DCU Center last CIFL season.
