Isn’t taping of the oppositions sideline illegal?
Shouldn’t the Commissioner’s office demand these Jets tapes of the Patriots sideline be turned over to NFL security to make sure no forbidden areas were taped?
Then shouldn’t the tapes end up at the FOX affiliate where his wife works?

After all fair is fair. I’d hate to think Roger has no integrity and is protecting his former employers.

For those who don’t know his former employers would be those same Jets

Good post. You’ve used the mob mentality concept to defend NYJ before, so consistent as well. There is a definite mob mentality to all fan(atic)dom though, so IIWII. It’s part of the fun, at least for me.

You gotta understand though, these loyal Pats fans (maybe some were bandwagon in 01 02 03, but it’s been awhile, and you gotta start some time) have been hearing trash talk from Jets fans echoing the trash talk from the NYJ organization itself for years, much of which was centered around spygate. Years.

It’s been four days. Let us gloat! We damn well put up with more. I myself think it’s over. The guy’s been suspended, and will likely be whacked in the dolrums of football, between the draft and camp. I hope he moves on and is successful, and never does anything so absurd again.

The Pat’s are having the best season since 07, and it’s a surprise to most of us. I figured we’d sse 8-8 and this would be a rebuilder year, and they’d start playing for real next year. Seriously, google my screenname, it’s there. We’re just enjoying the hell out of this, and have earned the privilege. The Jet’s have just made it easier lately.

Happy Holidays to you too and you all! Enjoy football, cause yet again it’s almost over!

Perhaps Ryan actually wrote “Soon to be Chumps” on the ESPN bus and we just misread it?

Amazing that this guy Westhoff can so clearly see another team doing against them twice a season but he fails to spot it among his own team… not that there’s anything illegal about it, he says, (but how dare you accuse me of doing it!)

The guy’s pretty schizo on this

1. Alosi tripping Carroll
2. Jets deny setting up a wall (why deny?)
3. Dragging the Patriots into this.

- Players and coaches line up on the sidelines all the time, in high school, college and pro ball…nothing wrong with that. Sidelines are sidelines. They are not in the field of play. So be it.

- Alosi just lost his paychecks, and hopefully, eventually, his job, for a scumbag move…absolutely. Agree 150% with the decision. I won’t be surprised to never see him again after this season as part of the Jets. If he is, shame on them.

- A player could have had his career ruined. C’mon now…listen to yourselves. He is a football player, in full gear, running out of bounds. Part of his position, yes. Running out of bounds…yes, it happens to gunners on kick offs. The mob mentality is taking over here. You are feeding off each other. If you feel that him going down for a knee is terrible, what about tripping and chop blocks on the field? They can cause a career to be ended, as well. The penalty is assessed, and the next play is started. Alosi is a jerk off, but stop saying a gunner could have had his career ended because he was brought down at full speed. Are you trying to say that would never happen on a football field?

Stick to the facts: the Jets coach is being punished for what he did, the team doesn’t approve of it, and let it be for crying out loud.

So, this is what happens when Brett Favre doesn’t make news for over a week? When Ben Rothliesberger is doing well? When Michael Vick isn’t making negative news? This is the new PFT Witch Hunt? Someone new for the board to mob against?

Shut up about the Patriots filming…everyone did it, Unfortunately for them, they took the fall.
Shut up about the Jets cheating. There is no rule saying they can’t line up along their own sidelines. The JETS did nothing wrong. Alosi did, and he is suffering the consequences for it. It is being handled.

The posts here remind me of the mobs with the torches going after witches in the old monster movies. Mob mentality: everyone feeds off each other. Collectively you all sound like junior high school cheerleaders, just being catty and thinking of new ways to twist something.

I guess this is the way it’s going to be until someone else in the league does something wrong, and you all have someone new to gang up on behind your anonymous screen names, huh?

And I know the “mommy’s basement” comments are coming (please…seriously??). I am 10 years from retirement and have my own home that I own free and clear, as well as two Masters degrees and a pretty damn good job. So, think of something else to hurl at me.

Happy Holidays everyone!! Thanks for listening.

Resume the torch carrying and group chanting.

If the above is true, why wasn’t the gunner called for a penalty? There was no Jet player near him on that punt until he fell down – then he was surrounded by two players.

This guy Westhoff’s a dumbass. It’s NOT the “Great Wall of Alosi” that was the problem. The coaches were in the coaches box. No problem there. The problem, Mr Westhoff, is that your colleague stuck out his knee to trip a player.

And, as long as the players are where they are supposed to be on the sidelines, there’s no problem there either. So, stop accusing the Patriots of doing what your co-conspirator did.

@jjarvis

The gunner is NOT allowed to go out of bounds on his own (it is a penalty), and if he is pushed out, he must get back on the field of play immediately. A penalty can be assessed on the gunner if the ref feels he doesn’t get back on the field quickly.

Maybe that’s why Rex Ryan was so avidly watching his wall take down Nolan Carroll, rather than watching the play on the field? It’s because he thought that if his staff caught the dolphin, he’d get to eat it?

This is a team of bullys and rats. Why didn’t Westhoff just say that other teams do it? He HAD to bring up the Patriots. They simply cannot get over that, even after all of their bluster, the off-season paper champions are still the Bitches of Foxboro.

Is that hard? In New Jersey it is.

This whole fiasco is annoyingly sweet.

Alosi only crossed the line when he purposely dripped the opponent.

More serious then potentially injuring a player ?
I don’t think so. Also, the Jets are f*cked here.
They seem to be distancing themselves from this
Elf now. If they go ahead and fire him, and he
talks ? What would he say ? For that reason
I guarantee the Jets don’t can him. It would be
too harmful for their organization. This way they
can control him.

Brilliant analysis. It just reminds me of the guy being chased and shooting as he runs. He eventually empties the gun, and out of sad desperation throws it at his oncoming pursuer. Which, of course, does nothing to improve his chances, but gives us onlookers a brief, sad chuckle.

They are who we THOUGHT they were…

Don’t forget, it’s fairly well documented that an AFC East team (take a guess who) was caught redhanded at Gillette Stadium filming in the 2006-07 playoffs, was ordered to stop, and lied about getting permission from the Patriots to do so.

“Well, if you watch them, their defense when the opponents’ punt team is out there,” Westhoff said. “They’re up there pretty close to the line so it looks like they are trying to do it.”

Mike Westhoff, professional liar.

Jets are a joke of a franchise who haven’t won anything in a half century…

how’s that 45-3 BEATDOWN taste LOSERS!!! LOL.