While it's been treated as somewhat less than headline story, looks like the Falcons and Browns will be getting some stiff sanctions for their own cheating scandals that were buried under the Deflategate media hysteria.
http://espn.go.com/boston/nfl/story...olating-league-policies?ex_cid=espnapi_public
Doesn't say what, but says 'severe penalties' and soon, so we'll see. If draft picks are involved, imagine we'd have to know soon so that can be planned for.
Speaking of which, waiting to see what happens with the Jets tampering thing over Revis. That the Jets did it is pretty textbook, even if you pretend that they never actually spoke to Revis until after he was cut from the Pats. Unlikely that they agreed to a giant contract in an hour or two's time, but sure. Moronic owner statements make it textbook tampering either way, so can't be nothing.
Entertainingly, Jets just filed charges of tampering against the Pats in retaliation. Kraft was asked about the negotiations, and he said he'd have liked to have kept him, didn't work out. Hard to see how that pans out, as was in the past tense, but not supposed to talk about other team's players, so who knows. More just Jets being petty IMO, but will see. NFL not exactly consistent with things.
Enjoyed hearing in the owner's meetings that the Patriots' proposal for more cameras on the end zone boundary lines (for review plays) was tabled because the NFL said they can't afford it
Not sure it's a billion dollar proposal...
And the whining Ravens got the Patriots' ineligible receiver thing declared illegal going forward. Too stupid to counter it, so got it banned. Colts had it pretty much figured out by the next week, and didn't do it that I'm aware of in the Superbowl, but either way, dead now. Liked the Ravens' twitter feed playing it up that it's banned now, highlighting how their dumb coach couldn't figure it out but now it's gone! Don't worry, Belichick will just come up with some other wrinkle from the rule book to confuse your dumb ass. One ESPN report I saw not too far back was just highlighting how many rules have been because the Pats like tweaking those fine lines in the rulebook, and doing things that other people that aren't as familiar with the rules just can't figure out. Then they remove whatever loophole Bill was hammering, and he picks a new one, rinse and repeat. Part of why Bill isn't the NFL's favorite person, he makes them work a lot
