For those of you here to discuss the playoffs, ignore the spoiler.
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Oh, the "everybody's doing it" excuse. That's a good one.
An article defending the Patriots from a blatant Patriot fan? That's your perfect evidence? First of all the article contradicts itself. The guy first goes on about how pointless it would be to tape the opponent's hand signals because it's not possible to use the knowledge gained in any way (implying then that there was no reason for the Patriots to tape anything). But then he attempts to make the point that the same thing was prevalent in the NFL and had been for years, using Jimmy Johnson of the Cowboys as an example. Well? So what if it did exist? All that means is that Jimmy Johnson was a dirty cheater too. And there are plenty of other examples of teams cheating (the dolphins did something similar to the patriots), but Spygate aside, the Patriots have been tripping over allegations of cheating for years (even before they became became kings of the NFL), and won't admit it even when the evidence is thrown in their face, other than Bellicheck's generic, "I accept full responsibility for accidentally misunderstanding the rules" bullshet, after they were caught red-handed and reprimanded by the NFL. And in the end, it doesn't matter what anyone else does, the Patriots have been the face of the NFL over the last decade, and as such they should hold themselves to higher standards.

I'm thinking Atlanta might have an upset or 2 in them. They're a good team, I'd like to seem them make a run one of these years.