NFL - Are You Ready For Some Football?! - Off Season

[Al B. Sure!]

Well Brady's thrown a perfect game on Thanksgiving.

[OzzyKP]

And the Lions serve up another turkey.

[Al B. Sure!]

Lions: The Turkey on Thanksgiving since 2003

[EPW]

My detriot WR barely got me any points too. Detroit.

[Al B. Sure!]

Who? Nate Burleson?

[EPW]

yeap

[flash9286]

In other NFL News, Josh McDaniels picked up some bad habits at NE.

The Denver Broncos and coach Josh McDaniels have been fined a combined $100,000 for the impermissible videotaping of a San Francisco 49ers practice prior to their London game of Week 8.
The team's video operations director, Steve Scarnecchia, has been fired for cause as a result of his taping the 49ers' walk-through practice at Wembley Stadium the day before the Broncos' 24-16 loss Oct. 31, the team announced in a release Saturday.
Scarnecchia filmed the drills of his own accord, later offering to show the video to McDaniels. But the coach declined, the Broncos said.

The NFL found that McDaniels, who was separately fined $50,000, had failed to promptly report the incident as required by league policy.
McDaniels apologized Saturday in a statement. He was to speak to the media in a news conference set for 2:45 p.m. ET.
"The actions of this individual are in no way representative of the values and integrity held by myself, our players and coaches, and the entire Denver Broncos organization," McDaniels said in the statement of Scarnecchia. "I understand the punishment from the National Football League and support its commitment to the integrity of the game. We have addressed the situation internally to assure that nothing like this happens again."
The Denver Post first reported the investigation.
"This incident cuts into the trust and respect our fans, our ticket holders, our community and our fellow competitors have for our organization," Broncos owner Pat Bowlen said in a statement. "That is why the Denver Broncos, upon learning of this violation, immediately investigated this matter and reported the incident to the league."
Bowlen also said the team had accepted the discipline and would move forward.
The case was reminiscent of the Patriots' Spygate scandal of 2007-08.
Scarnecchia worked for the Patriots along with McDaniels in 2008, when commissioner Roger Goodell docked their first-round draft pick for that year and fined coach Bill Belichick $500,000 for a violation of NFL rules that bar teams from filming opponents' signals. The Patriots, who were found to have videotaped New York Jets coaches during a 2006 game, were fined an additional $250,000.
McDaniels was the Patriots' offensive coordinator that season, having been promoted from quarterbacks coach in 2006 to make him the youngest coordinator in the league at the time.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=5855075&type=HeadlineNews&imagesPrint=off

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Uh. Scanecchia was out of NE after '04. He worked for Mangini and the Jets during the whole spygate blowup. I'm vaguely surprised the McDaniels hired him at all.

[-Jrabbit]

Uh. Scanecchia was out of NE after '04. He worked for Mangini and the Jets during the whole spygate blowup. I'm vaguely surprised the McDaniels hired him at all.

But the article states:

Scarnecchia worked for the Patriots along with McDaniels in 2008, when commissioner Roger Goodell docked their first-round draft pick for that year and fined coach Bill Belichick $500,000 for a violation of NFL rules that bar teams from filming opponents' signals.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

The article is wrong.

[Al B. Sure!]

The Spygate controversy was in 2007, not 2008, though. You know, the 18-1 year

Oh and there's two Scarnecchia's. One is the son of the other. Maybe that's why there's confusion

This Scarnecchia was not on the Patriots in 2007.

Wikipedia says:

Scarnecchia, the son of longtime Patriots offensive line coach Dante Scarnecchia, was a video assistant for the Patriots in 2001–2004, before joining the Jets' video department for the 2006–2007 seasons.

[flash9286]

This Scarnecchia was not on the Patriots in 2007.

No, but he was implicated in the spygate controversy.

[Al B. Sure!]

Yes but the ESPN writer must have been thinking of this Scarnecchia's father when the writer wrote that Scarnecchia was with the Patriots in 2008, hence Koyaanisqati saying the article is wrong.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I really don't see where you can make that assumption from the article.

[Al B. Sure!]

Wow really? The article was wrong because it said Scarnecchia was on the Pats in 2008. He wasn't as Koyaan pointed out. He left the Pats in 2004. His father is still with the team, however. I think that's where the writer's mistake is.