Spygate done, once and for all?

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell met with the press today, sharing with the media that former patriots employee Matt Walsh shed no light on any new allegations of “Spygate.” You remember last September, the Pats were found to be stealing defensive signals from the Jets. The Pats and coach Bill Belichick were fined a combined $750,000 and New England lost its first round draft pick.

Then along came Walsh, who claimed to have ‘evidence’ that the club had been doing this for a long time. Certainly Jets coach Eric Mangini MUST have known something-he was with the Pats for several years and joined Gang Green over “The Hoodie’s” objections. Mangini was one of those who alerted the league of the Pats’ misdeeds last September.

One thing I find comical: Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter was to talk to Walsh. Why? Seems that one of the other games in question was the January 2002 AFC Championship between the Pats and Steelers. Obviously, Specter feels the Steelers got a raw deal. BUT: Unlike baseball which needed congressional hearings to rid the sport of steroids because of incompetent commish Bud Selig and a too powerful players’ union, this as far as we know, involves one team-the Patriots. So let Goodell do his job. I’m sure Goodell will hear it from team owners if they’re not happy about the investigation. After all, time will tell if:

The Patriots did even more than Walsh shared with the league-and the NFL stated today there was nothing new.

Was Walsh therefore just a ‘disgruntled’ employee with an ax to grind? Maybe we’ll see him working for the Jets soon.

You hope that Goodell has more character than Selig and that his statements today are true. Selig foolishly chose not to discipline any of the players found to do steroids in the Mitchell Report, sending a bad message of no accountability to fans, players and especially youngsters. Could the NFL just be warning the other teams-DON’T screw up or make us look bad? I hope not. The Patriots may be every bit as arrogant as they appear, starting with Belichick and his secretive antics with the press. I DO wish Goodell had suspended Belochick and fined Pats’ owner Robert Kraft last year-NOT that the Jets would have won that September opener. But for the NFL’s sake I hope Spygate is done.

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