Kornheiser, Wilbon Think Patriots Latest Comments Are 'Aimed at Discrediting' Walsh
The fine folks at PTI weigh in on the latest episode in the Spygate saga: the response from Bill Belichick and Scott Pioli about Matt Walsh's claim that he has video evidence of the Patriots cheating.
Like FanHouse's Michael David Smith wrote yesterday, Tony Kornheiser and Mike Wilbon are of the opinion that by speaking out now, it looks like the Patriots are trying to discredit Walsh. So even if he does eventually produce video of, say, New England taping the St. Louis Rams walkthrough in the day before the Super Bowl, Belichick and Pioli can claim Walsh was working alone.
The PTI guys also find laughable Belichick's assertion that that the filming of opposing teams' defensive signals ranked about a "one" on a scale of one to 100 in terms of information gained. Which raises the obvious question: why do it. The Boston Globe's Mike Reiss asked just that and got this response: "Why do anything? Why study tendencies? Why study stances?" Um, okay.
In any event, on the latest charges leveled by Walsh, the Patriots are innocent until proven otherwise. Even though public opinion has already been shaped by previous events, perceived and real.




