If the NFL intentions were to make the Pats look bad by feeding all this info to ESPN “Outside of the Lines” they did a good job of doing that.
But, they also made themselves look pretty shady as well.
Case in point, look at what former Rams Head Coach Mike Martz had to say about some of the shady things the NFL did.
Spygate centers around the Pats taping the Rams Super Bowl walk-through. Goodell doesn’t want the government involved, so he has Martz write-up a statement saying the NFL did all the right things. But, when that letter was presented, Martz says it had been edited.
Here are the quotes via Larry Brown Sports.
“He told me, ‘The league doesn’t need this. We’re asking you to come out with a couple lines exonerating us and saying we did our due diligence. If it ever got to an investigation, it would be terrible for the league,’” Martz recalled Goodell saying to him.
Despite the fact that he to this day wonders if the Patriots did something illegal with videotaping, Martz agreed that a congressional investigation “would kill the league,” so agreed to he wrote the statement. In it, he said he was “very satisfied” with the NFL’s investigation. However, Martz told OTL that the league edited his statement without permission.
“It shocked me,” he says. “It appears embellished quite a bit — some lines I know I didn’t write. Who changed it? I don’t know.”
NFL is throwing a lot of stones from their glass mansion on Park avenue.