POLL: NE Cheating - What should be done?

[dtgolder]

Please comment on any specifics you think may happen.

Edited January 23, 2015 by dtgolder

[4merper4mer]

Disband the team, all players enter a special draft with first pick going to a new franchise in LA. Realignment with Rams moving to AFC North, Ravens to East and new LA team in NFC west.

 

Also the Bruins should be banned from the NHL as a bonus punishment.

[GoPre]

Disband the team, all players enter a special draft with first pick going to a new franchise in LA. Realignment with Rams moving to AFC North, Ravens to East and new LA team in NFC west.

 

Also the Bruins should be banned from the NHL as a bonus punishment.

Too soft. NFL needs to be more agressive.

[Captain Hindsight]

Monetary fine. They should suspend Brady equal to a PED suspension. Belicheck should have balls removed

 

Ignorance is not an excuse

[dayman]

They should be banned from winning the division for 5 years.

[YoloinOhio]

They should have to trade us Gronk for Lee Smith.

[TakeYouToTasker]

Should: Belichick should be suspended immediately, and the suspension should persist through the end of next season. The Patriots* should be banned from participation in the post season for the next two years. All players should be granted UFA should they choose, immediately following the Super Bowl. The Patriots* should forfeit their first and second round picks in the 2015 draft with the first rounder going to Indy and the second rounder awarded to Baltimore. Finally, the organization should have their salary cap reduced by 15% for the next 4 seasons.

 

Will happen: loss of a 2016 draft pick and a fine of no more than $500k.

[Buffalo Barbarian]

Copper Black award for creative achievment

 

 

http://www.mensafoundation.org/what-we-do/awards-and-recognition/copper-black-award-for-creative-achievement/

[3rdand12]

a good ole Massachusetts Witch burning.

right after...

the " witches float , do gooders sink trial"

Edited January 23, 2015 by 3rdand12

[Buffalo Barbarian]

They should have to trade us Gronk for Lee Smith.

 

Alright I will give u Smith for this but EJ for Brady too or no Deal!

Should: Belichick should be suspended immediately, and the suspension should persist through the end of next season. The Patriots* should be banned from participation in the post season for the next two years. All players should be granted UFA should they choose THE BILLS, immediately following the Super Bowl. The Patriots* should forfeit their first and second round picks in the 2015 draft with the first rounder going to BUFFALO and the second rounder awarded to BUFFALO. Finally, the organization should have their salary cap reduced by 15% for the next 4 seasons.

 

 

fixed

[bigdogtim]

I think we should force Brady to divorce Giselle and make him marry Roseanne barr

[HumbleAndHungry]

Their salary cap should be decreased by 25% for next year

[Uffalo Ills]

They should be banned from winning the division for 5 years.

this

[DC Tom]

For the next four years:

 

All offensive linemen playing against the Patriots have a "get out of holding penalty free" card.

Defensive backs are allowed to mug the Patriots receivers at any point in the play, at any spot on the field.

The Brady has to pay a $10k fine. Per completed pass. For the next four years.

And any and all hits on The Brady are legal.

[Dorkington]

The precedent for a team cheating seems to be picks and a fine, so this "should" follow. And since this is the second time with their current group, you'd think it'd be more severe.

 

That being said, I have a feeling the NFL will find a scapegoat and the Pats will get away with it. It's easier to find a scapegoat for this, than with the videotaping.

[truth on hold]

League wont do more than monetary fine because they won't want to concede it had a material effect on the game. They may be right too , but only by coincidence

[dtgolder]

I think we should force Brady to divorce Giselle and make him marry Roseanne barr

Best reply yet!

 

The unstated issue here is the Pats have a reputation as cheaters, so "deflate-gate" is totally believable. And frankly no amount of denial is going to change that. Guilty or not, the Pats now have to live with the reputation they have earned.

 

And although some may argue "it didn't make a difference, the Colts woukd have still lost", someone recently made the point that this could have been going on undetected for many games--did it make a difference in any of the Pats' regular season games? If so, would they have earned home-field advantage without deflated balls as an "edge"? And without home field advantage the Pats very well could have lost in the playoffs, and another team would now be representing the AFC in the Super Bowl.

 

Given that logic, one can easily make the case for NE being required to forfeit the game, and the Colts being allowed to play in the Super Bowl.

 

Will never happen though...

Edited January 23, 2015 by dtgolder

[Mike in Horseheads]

Please comment on any specifics you think may happen.

On part two you left off make them forfeit the first preseason game next year.

The precedent for a team cheating seems to be picks and a fine, so this "should" follow. And since this is the second time with their current group, you'd think it'd be more severe.

 

That being said, I have a feeling the NFL will find a scapegoat and the Pats will get away with it. It's easier to find a scapegoat for this, than with the videotaping.

It was the evil back judge...

[DC Tom]

Best reply yet!

 

The unstated issue here is the Pats have a reputation as cheaters, so "deflate-gate" is totally believable. And frankly no amount of denial is going to change that.

 

Denial will reinforce it. Today's press conferences were a really dumb idea by the Pats' PR department.

[papazoid]

loss of first and second round draft choices for two years.

 

loss of salary cap space

 

substantial fine.

 

suspension of players, coaches and employees who participated.