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    TMQ: Belichick Deserves “Serious Suspension,” Lifetime Ban?

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    Filed under: Patriots, NFL Media Watch, Boston Gregg Easterbrook, the Brookings scholar who writes Tuesday Morning Quarterback for ESPN.com, posted a rare Saturday article today. He argues that the lack of remorse shown by Patriots coach Bill Belichick in the whole Spygate affair merits some additional punishment for the coach. What sort of punishment? ” A man of dignity, who is caught cheating, would resign,” says Easterbrook. The odds of Belichick resigning over Spygate, however, round down to zero. Easterbrook knows this. Instead, he states that “a serious suspension” (by which he means one longer than year) is what’s called for. If you read between the lines, what Easterbrook really wants is for Belichick to go away forever: “Belichick’s lack of remorse creates an argument for a lifetime ban. Why should the 99 percent of NFL players, coaches and front-office officials who are honest sportsmen be tarred by association with a few who are not?” 99% of NFL players, coaches, and front-office officials are clean? Really? I don’t know what percentage of NFL players are using some sort of performance enhancing substance, but I’m willing to guess that it’s more than 1%. (Texans long-snapper Bryan Pittman says it’s more like 40%.) Maybe performance enhancers aren’t cheating in Easterbrook’s mind, but they are in mine. The real question to me, though, is why Easterbrook cares so much about Spygate when the NFL has moved on. I think the “-gate” suffix may be involved. Continue reading TMQ: Belichick Deserves “Serious Suspension,” Lifetime Ban? Permalink | Email this | Comments

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