Playoff reseeding proposal fails
Posted on Wednesday, April 02 @ 19:38:37 CDT by Raulken |
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PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Patriots owner Robert Kraft just told reporters, including colleague Mike Reiss, that NFL owners did not pass a playoff reseeding proposal that would have made it possible for a division winner to not host a first-round playoff game...
 Bill Belichick (l.) sees illegal videotaping saga drag on, much to chagrin of Patriots owner Robert Kraft. PALM BEACH, Fla. - Bill Belichick has put three Super Bowl trophies in the hands of Patriots owner Robert Kraft and he was within seconds of a fourth until the ball stuck to David Tyree's helmet. But the tradeoff has been the tremendous embarrassment Belichick has brought to the Patriots with his SpyGate operation. "This is not what we are about as a franchise," Kraft said Monday during a break at the NFL meetings. "We paid a heavy price for it. We broke a rule, which I'm not proud about." The integrity of the league is the big issue at meetings, with new procedures - prompted by SpyGate - coming directly from commissioner Roger Goodell that are designed to restore the public trust in the game. Stronger measures to promote compliance with the rules, a whistle-blower program and a lesser standard of proof required for penalties won't be as strong a deterrent as this: Nobody wants to be humiliated like Belichick. The SpyGate mess has no chance of going away until the league strikes a deal with former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh to spill his guts. If Walsh can produce tapes that prove Belichick spied on the Rams' walk-through the day before the Super Bowl six...
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