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Originally Posted by stevegroganfan
There are no asterisks on the Patriots 6 championship banners and 5 other Super Bowl appearances. I wish the Patriots won more in the 80's and 90's but I'll blame the Patriots not drafting Jerry Rice instead of players like Rice cheating with stickum.
I'm fairly confident based upon what many ex players have stated that every NFL team since at least the Steelers in the 70's have had players that cheat with PEDs. That is so much more consequential than having a slight advantage how you gather signals when most teams were doing it. I'm speaking of the SB winning years.
Nick Saban is on record that he told the person talking to him to not give his guess of signals when he was working for Belichick in Cleveland. He said it messed him up and was more concerned with just appropriate defensive coverage based upon down and distance et cetera. So, Saban found the info Cleveland under Belichick gathered so useless that he mostly ignored it. That spying operationg in Cleveland didn't result in enough wins for Belichick to retain his job. Maybe his opponents did it better.
Whatever the case, the fact is that Brady raised his QBR nearly 20 points after everyone knew about Spygate. Bledsoe won less under Belichick. Patriots with Brady had higher winning percentage after Spygate than before Spygate.
Brady himself was the cheat code.
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Sorry, I have asterisks on all of them. Oof...