Does Patriots Spygate Story End Today? - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog

Former New England Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh has a meeting today with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, and another one with U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter. If the Patriots and the league get their wish, both Goodell and Specter will announce after their meetings with Wals that they're convinced that the Patriots didn't tape the Rams' final walk-through practice before the 2002 Super Bowl, and the Patriots Spygate story will come to an end.

More realistically, however, it's going to be more complex than that. Goodell will, I'm sure, announce at his press conference this morning that he's satisfied that the punishments he's already doled out to the Patriots and coach Bill Belichick fit all the crimes that Walsh told him the Patriots and Belichick committed.


But Specter is likely to keep this going. Specter clearly believes that the Patriots have cheated to a greater extent than anyone is letting on, and the NFL's bizarre decision to destroy all the evidence it collected when the Patriots were first caught taping opponents' signals last year makes it impossible for the league to refute Specter's allegations.

So I expect Specter to have a press conference after Goodell's, and I expect Specter to say unanswered questions remain about the Patriots' taping activities, and Spygate won't end. However, I don't think Specter will have much basis for his remaining questions, which means today isn't the day that the Spygate story dies, but it is the day the it starts to fade away.