Comments on: Matt Walsh has explaining to do http://blogs.eagletribune.com/sports/2008/03/10/matt-walsh-has-explaining-to-do/ Bill Burt's blog on sports Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:51:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.1 By: Mike Daly http://blogs.eagletribune.com/sports/2008/03/10/matt-walsh-has-explaining-to-do/#comment-3656 Mike Daly Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:34:29 +0000 http://blogs.eagletribune.com/sports/2008/03/10/matt-walsh-has-explaining-to-do/#comment-3656 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. 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.

]]> By: Mike Daly http://blogs.eagletribune.com/sports/2008/03/10/matt-walsh-has-explaining-to-do/#comment-3653 Mike Daly Mon, 10 Mar 2008 18:43:07 +0000 http://blogs.eagletribune.com/sports/2008/03/10/matt-walsh-has-explaining-to-do/#comment-3653 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. 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.

]]> By: Jim-red sox nation west http://blogs.eagletribune.com/sports/2008/03/10/matt-walsh-has-explaining-to-do/#comment-3651 Jim-red sox nation west Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:56:39 +0000 http://blogs.eagletribune.com/sports/2008/03/10/matt-walsh-has-explaining-to-do/#comment-3651 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!! 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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