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I don't intend to re-hash Bountygate and debate whether the Saints did it or not. But last night, I was thinking about how much trouble we got into for allegedly our involvement with Bountygate, which, even if guilty was not against any written rule, nor was it cheating or gaining unfair advantage.
While we all argue whether he stepped out of bounds or not, we fail to see what actually must of transpired for the Broncos to adopt and choose such a play call.
Are we to believe that play was somehow by chance, or a serendipitous alignment of players acting by coincidence? Think about what must have taken place for that play to be successful. For that play to have worked, like it did yesterday, this means that the coaching staff must have been aware that they would put an illegal play in their special teams playbook, practiced it dozens of times and actually called the illegal play during a live game. This is pre-meditated play design cheating, pre-meditated practicing cheating, then consciously calling the illegal play to gain benefit.
Somehow, I think that many lose sight at what must have actually taken place to put us in a position to be arguing the semantics of their cheating or bad officiating. Coach Kubiak should be ashamed of what he did to win the game and Roger Goodell should give some thought to what actually happened yesterday. This is consciously cheating, no different than spy-gate, deflategate and should be treated as such. Again, we can debate the inept officiating until the cows come home, but, the bigger message is what is the NFL going to do to address the 1st degree, pre-meditated cheating that took place inside the Superdome yesterday?
Sorry for the long post.
While we all argue whether he stepped out of bounds or not, we fail to see what actually must of transpired for the Broncos to adopt and choose such a play call.
Are we to believe that play was somehow by chance, or a serendipitous alignment of players acting by coincidence? Think about what must have taken place for that play to be successful. For that play to have worked, like it did yesterday, this means that the coaching staff must have been aware that they would put an illegal play in their special teams playbook, practiced it dozens of times and actually called the illegal play during a live game. This is pre-meditated play design cheating, pre-meditated practicing cheating, then consciously calling the illegal play to gain benefit.
Somehow, I think that many lose sight at what must have actually taken place to put us in a position to be arguing the semantics of their cheating or bad officiating. Coach Kubiak should be ashamed of what he did to win the game and Roger Goodell should give some thought to what actually happened yesterday. This is consciously cheating, no different than spy-gate, deflategate and should be treated as such. Again, we can debate the inept officiating until the cows come home, but, the bigger message is what is the NFL going to do to address the 1st degree, pre-meditated cheating that took place inside the Superdome yesterday?
Sorry for the long post.