Walsh speaks out about Spygate
Former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh is speaking out about his role in Spygate.
“If it was of little or no importance, I imagine they wouldn’t have continued to do it, and probably not taken the chances of going down onto the field in Pittsburgh or shooting from other teams’ stadiums the way we did.”
“On average, when you’re scouting a team, we’d do anywhere from 60 to 70 cut-ups on offense, 40, 50 cut-ups on defense. Special teams, you’re making another 10 to 15 tapes,” Walsh told The Times.“When Belichick came along, we added even more to the preparation. We were doing more cut-ups, and we were also coming into the age of digital technology, too. So we were able to attach statistics to the video, on computers. The great thing about technology, it’s supposed to make things easier, but in a sense it creates more work for you.”
As SR friend John Paulsen mentioned to me in an e-mail, Walsh comments essentially throw Belichick’s “I misunderstood the rules” comments right out the window. At least from what Walsh is saying, it’s clear that Belichick wanted the tapes so he could have a clear advantage over his opponents. (As if that wasn’t obvious already.)
Should be interesting to see where this issue goes from here now that Sen. Arlen Specter wants to conduct his own investigation.
I think the league would like this all to just go away, but Specter seems irritated (like the rest of us) that the Pats weren’t more severely punished. They cheat for 4-7 years (that we know of) and all they get is a fine and a measly first round pick taken away as punishment?!?
This is the big revelation to me:
“When I was doing it, I understood what we were doing to be wrong,” Walsh said. “We went to great lengths to keep from being caught. Just saying that the rules were misinterpreted isn’t enough of an apology or a reasoning for what was done. … Coach Belichick’s explanation for having misinterpreted the rules, to me, that really didn’t sound like taking responsibility for what we had done, especially considering the great lengths that we had gone through to hide what we were doing.”
Not only is Belicheat a cheater. He’s a liar too.
The Pats should lose their first round picks until the end of the decade. Moreover, Belicheat should never get a first round pick no matter where he coaches in the future.
I hear what you are saying and I understand your point of the lying..But what I don’t understand is this: Every game is on TV, HD, and replays shown over and over. Any hack could put together a tape so I don’t understand what the big deal is unless its the lying that is pissing people off.
College Teams have to share tapes each week…and don’t tell me that the Jets don’t have films of the Pats either. They have been playing each other at least twice a year for 25+ years…
Tapes are good if you assume that these guys do the same thing every time and they don’t. Some of the knuckleheads out there can’t even remember the plays.
This is over…Tell Congress to work on the friggin gas issue.
Steinny – the Pats were taping opponents’ sidelines as the coaches called in the defensive plays. They were essentially stealing signals, and they were using that information to adjust their offense accordingly.
Don’t forget – Belacheat lives in the cellar. All he does is watch tapes – when he surfaces on Sundays and almost talks and acts human with the hoody on – the Pats win ……….. He’s a Tapehead. They all cheat – he cheats more.
They haven’t lost much since the freakin TUCK rule have they ?
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