The New England Patriots aren’t any strangers to NFL rules violations and the newest, this time in the offseason, has price the group two OTA practices.
For any New England Patriots fans hoping to get a primary report of what the group is wanting like this offseason from the media at OTAs, you’re going to have to attend.
Thursday, May 25 was speculated to be the first scheduled OTA apply open to the media. Instead, that apply was surprisingly canceled on Wednesday afternoon. It seemingly got here out of nowhere, however a couple of hours later, we came upon why it was canceled.
According to Mike Reiss of ESPN, the Patriots have been docked two OTA practices for a violation of offseason rules. Thursday’s apply is the first they misplaced and there can be one other subsequent week that can not be happening.
Fans suppose Patriots are profitable Super Bowl after being punished for ‘cheating’
Perhaps the two greatest dishonest scandals in NFL historical past each concerned the New England Patriots with Spygate and Deflategate. Of course, after Spygate got here to gentle in September 2007, all the Pats did was reel off an undefeated common season earlier than falling to the Giants in the Super Bowl. Then, in 2015 when Deflategate’s subject material occurred in the AFC Championship recreation. Belichick and Co. went on to win one other Lombardi Trophy.
So with the Patriots again to “cheating”, fans have been fast to joke (or possibly not a lot) that Belichick and New England have been undoubtedly again and going again to the Super Bowl.
Perhaps the funniest addition to the dialog was a response to the query of what the rules violation was, to which one quick-witted individual replied “Drafting a punter and kicker in the same draft.” That is, certainly, worthy of punishment.
Alas, we don’t know what rule the Patriots really violated to obtain this punishment. And whereas the jokes are nice, the truth of the matter is that New England seems to have a methods to go earlier than they’re really again in the Super Bowl dialog.
