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Originally Posted by willravel
I'm confused about accusations that other teams cheat considering that there's no evidence to support this. Supposition and guessing is not a good substitute for evidence. The Patriots were cheating, as was supported by evidence. Until evidence of other teams cheating is presented, it's illogical to assume that they cheat. For the time being, it's only logical to be under the impression that the Patriots cheat.
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Well, to extend that, it's only "logical" to assume that they cheated once, against a team everyone assumes that they would have beaten anyway.
All this talk of asterisks and widespread cheating necessarily relies on unproven accusations- pretending that what the patriots got caught and fined for was a big deal is kind of similar to joe buck's reaction to randy moss pretend-mooning the stands at lambeau. So it's a bit odd to see claims about league wide cheating get dismissed by asterisk proponents based on the idea that there isn't any evidence- there isn't any evidence that the pats have cheated in any way that wasn't completely inconsequential.