From the Sunday NY Times:

Long since the days of leather helmets and the V-formation, the N.F.L. has embraced technological advances that have brought dizzying changes to coaching strategy in the past decade. With the advances have come new temptations for coaches to gain an unfair advantage. Every Monday during the football season, the league says, it fields complaints from and about many teams. If a persistent problem is identified, the league’s eight-member competition committee suggests changes to rules. In discussions of changes since 2000, one team, the New England Patriots, has surfaced more than any other, according to a longtime N.F.L. team executive with direct knowledge of the meetings... The N.F.L. team executive said the Patriots were the subject of most of the accusations discussed in the rules committee’s deliberations... “They were the only team, really,” the executive said. “Clearly, they were the team mentioned far more than anybody else.”

So this is what the Patriots haters in the media have been reduced to. They sat there for months with their sniper rifles locked and loaded, waiting for Matt Walsh to drop a Daisy Cutter on the Foxboro Tora Bora, so they could pick the Pats off one by one as they came spilling from their caves in panic. Instead, the M.O.A.B Walsh dropped turned out to be the "Mother of All Bullshit." He handed over to the league eight lousy tapes he kept from the Bledsoe Era which proved the Patriots... did exactly what they admitted to doing. What everyone else was doing. Taping opposing coaches. Oh, the horror. So without the chance to end Osama bin Belichick's reign of terror legitimately, the NY Times is quoting one unnamed executive >cough< Bill Polian >cough, cough< who says the league deals with a lot of complaints about the Pats. Gee, ya think? Could eight seasons of unchallenged success have anything to do with it? You mean the Competition Committe isn't confronting the competitive imbalance caused by the Arizona Cardinals?

In a related note, Profootballtalk.com has a link to an interview loathesome Barstool boycott recipient John Tomase did two days after the Super Bowl on Loren & Wally. In it, Tomase admits that for months he had gotten nowhere with the whole SpyGate story. Click here for the link and at about the 12 minute mark you'll hear him admit that by the Friday before the game the Walsh story "wasn’t even on my radar screen." Then Tomase explains how the Times was looking into Walsh and by an incredible coincidence, the very next day he had an entire story claiming someone, somewhere, had a tape of the Rams Super Bowl walk-through. So in 24 hours, in the midst of compiling Super Bowl stories in Arizona, Tomase managed to take a story that was off his radar, and corroborate it with enough evidence to run with it. Oh, and Matt Walsh wasn't his source. The walk through story was all solid journalism, not some talentless hack trying to make a name for himself with unfounded accusations. How is this gasbag still employed?