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Ahhh - you gotta love it. Deadspin taking it to that fraud Charlie Weiss who’s entire career was built on illegal sign stealing. Basically college football’s version of Cyrano. Now he allefedly doesn’t want to talk about his star quarterback being photoed drinking … IN A BEER OLYMPICS … while underage. A red flag not for the drinking, but for the fact that this idiot posed for one of several pictures - and at an institution that prides itself on being holier than thou (literally).

Jimmy Clausen Beer Olympics: Charlie Weis Would Not Like To Discuss The Beer Olympics, Thank You

Q. Not going to be any discipline?
COACH WEIS: Let’s move on on.

Now, here’s the thing: If this were any other coach you might be able to give him credit for protecting his players from these types of questions and prolonging the “controversy.” But Charlie Weis is, for all intents and purposes, is just an absolute prick. According to several people who’ve had the displeasure of dealing with him on a professional level, he’s the most unhelpful, paranoid person, who, for whatever reason carries himself with such an air of entitlement, you’d think his lunchmeat-stuffed body was able to levitate.

But what makes this particular response so disingenuous is the fact that Weiss will cloak himself in self-righteousness when its convenient for him (i.e. Dana Jacobson) and can praise himself for not recruiting a bunch of “hoodlums and thugs” yet he can sit there and stonewall a reporter on a pretty legitimate question about the possible ramifications from this incident? All he had to say was, “We’re looking into it” or “It’s still being investigated and I’ll keep you updated as soon as I hear something.” Instead they get “Let’s move on.”

At the next press conference the first question a reporter should ask Weis is this: Charlie, exactly how full of shit and under-qualified are you?

Let’s move on.

Oh “Not Nice” Charlie Weiss - when will you acknowledge that you suck? will it take Notre Dame going 0-12? If so - count me among the many that will be cheering for that to happen this year. GO TEAM!

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Interesting article from former player Ross Tucker about the other big revelation from the Spygate mess:

Basically, the Patriots would put a player on IR, knowing it meant he couldn’t play in a game or practice with the team for the remainder of the season. By skirting the rules and practicing him anyway, it allowed them to develop his skills during the year. A side benefit is that they were also able to give some of the older players less repetitions and, therefore, additional rest.

It’s apparent that none of Goodell’s “investigations” were thorough because it seems that it’s the media that are the ones doing most of the fact finding into the apparently high level of cheating that was going on in New England. And like steroids in baseball, it’s going to continue to trickle out and embarass both Goodell for his toothless punishments and the Patriots putting even more tarnish on what should have been one of the league’s greatest dynasties.

It’s fine for Goodell to want to “protect the shield” by going easy on the Pats, but then his penalties for the 49ers “tampering” with Lance Briggs (an incomplete phone call to Drew Rosenhaus) as well as the penalties he doles out to the players seem hollow and give the impression that he knows how deep Bill Belicheck’s rabbit hole goes and is unwilling to levy similarly harsh punishments against his buddy’s franchise. Perhaps it’s a matter of Kraft having signficant power be heading the league’s Television committee. Or perhaps all the owners subscribe to the “circle the wagons” mentality when it comes to problems. But one thing is for sure - if they don’t get ahead of this thing and use the offseason to offer a complete and thorough mea culpa, this story will never die and will take away from whatever the Patriots accomplish as well as other great stories from next season.

Yank that band-aid off, Roger.

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Some would call this Karma for a team caught cheating on one occasion, and accused on several more. I call it a deserved ass kicking. The Patriots got found out, and were outlasted by a team that made fewer mistakes and was just as talented on defense as they were on offense. And in typical Patriot fashion, the classlessness was evident:

If he’s going to lose, Bill Belichick would rather be elsewhere

By MJD

Sunday, Feb 3, 2008 11:12 pm EST

On more than one occasion this year, Bill Belichick and the Patriots have run up the score on an overmatched opponent, and forced an opposing coach to sit there and watch his beaten team go through the motions while their heineys were being handed to them.

But when the shoe’s on the other foot, and Bill Belichick’s team has been beaten, he can’t sit there and take the pain for a few seconds.

With :02 left on the clock, and his team just having failed on a last chance 4th down effort, Bill Belichick ran onto the field for a quick handshake, and then bolted for the locker room. Belichick’s an important guy and everything, but I wasn’t aware that the league had given him the authority to decide when games end.

There’s time left on the clock, his team’s been humbled, outplayed, and lost their chance at history … and Bill Belichick doesn’t have the stomach to sit there and absorb the pain until the clock read 0:00.

That’s unsportsmanlike at best, disrespectful at least, and at worst, it makes him a big sissy.

There’ll be lots of time to hate on Bill Bellyache tomorrow. Today is for celebrating the 72 Dolphins - STILL the only undefeated championship team in the history of the NFL. Preach on, Merc! Oh yeah - and the Giants won too.

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