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September 14, 2007

Projo PatsTalk with Shalise Manza Young: Moving forward after a punishing week

Click here to listen to today's edition of projo PatsTalk with Shalise Manza Young. The topics: the league's punishment and whether it's appropriate; how much losing a draft pick will hurt; the fans' mixed reaction; the next time the Jets come to Foxboro; how the players avoid distraction; stopping LaDainian Tomlinson; and how Randy Moss will fare against San Diego.

Here are some excerpts from Shalise's comments.

On fan reaction: "There are some people, who are diehard Patriots fans, that one of their mottoes is 'In Bill we trust,' and they figure if he's doing it, everybody else must be doing it too. People are really upset with Eric Mangini, because they feel like he ratted out his old boss ... but by the same token, Mangini might have just been doing what Bill taught him to do -- you do anything you can to gain an edge. And there are some Patriots fans who think, 'I'm all for this team, but I want everything we do and every success we have to be totally legitimate.' And there are fans out there who definitely are embarrassed by this."

On the next time Bill and Eric meet: "I think as well-documented as the first four handshakes have been, I don't even know if there will be a handshake in the next game, because I dont think Bill Belichick will forgive this one anytime soon."

Moss against San Diego: "I think Randy will be a target again. Of course, after the performance he put on last week, he'll get a little more attention [from San Diego], but as we saw on that 51-yard touchdown catch that he had last week, it doesn't matter if you have two or three guys on him, he's going to find a way to beat you. ... And the other person I think could have a big game is Wes Welker. I think if the Chargers try to take away the run, then you could see a lot of dink-and-dunk to Wes Welker over the middle, short routes, and maybe Kevin Faulk as well in that situation."

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Comments

This cheating stuff seems to go way beyond the video spying. Some sources tell me more stuff will come down about the Pats with more penalties. Read this. Yikes!

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/dr_z/09/13/cheating/index.html?eref=T1

I am trying to stay loyal people, but it’s getting tough. These guys seems like real scumbags.

Posted by: Patriot Eric at September 14, 2007 12:24 PM

The only reason people are focusing so hard on the Patriots cheating is because of their greatness. Furthermore, the Patriots have more enemies than any other team, so of course, there is MUCH speculation on other things they've done, and everyone will dig hard to find imperfections. Just remember, anyone who knows anything about football, knows they all cut edges and cheat. Besides some people are treating this like some major crime.. let's face it, we are talking about video taping signals, not stealing playbooks...geesh, at least non-Patriot fans have something to talk about for a while... and Michael Vick is happy, no one's mentioned his name in a week.

Posted by: Michelle M at September 15, 2007 7:52 AM