Good god this is so weak. So a filmmaker spent all day working and offers to delete everything? Not just the illegal stuff? So an independent contractor is okay with going home with nothing for the people who hired him? Was he ready to get fired that easily?
lol okay so the pats just let this “contractor” go do whatever he wants without telling them where and how he plans to film things for them. They are paying him to contribute to a documentary or whatever; don’t you think the pats would want to know what he’s doing, and maybe they’d be a little more sensitive given they have had issues with “filming” in the past? And again, it’s just odd that such oversight comes from the most disciplined franchise in the sport.
Yeah more details need to come out, but it’s sketchy as hell right now.
Q1. Yes, he had 8 minutes of footage. He offered to delete it. Since it's illegal. I have no idea why you think this is a difficult thing to do. On my camera, I just select the file and it's gone (but I don't tell the NFL that I didn't delete the file in the trash!!!). As for whether he's OK with it, he was told he didn't have the rights to the footage!! What's he going to do? Fight them over what's not his?
2. The documentary has been up on the Patriots site for months now with various different episodes. You can view them yourself if you don't believe it.
3. Let's say you're right and this was all a scheme. They concocted the documentary hoax last year, then they put it into practice by spending countless hours and episodes over several months. They were waiting for their one chance to film sidelines (in an era when playcalls are made with radios not hand signals), and they decided to choose the Bengals to do this against, instead of the Chiefs, Eagles, Texans or Ravens. Or they did it to every team in which case every week an NFL team credentialed this crew so it could continue it's exposee of advance scout's life! Leaving a trail a mile long so the NFL could ask them, "Just how long does it take to do an episode on advance scouting?" This was their dastardly plan. And they did this rather than send some flunky into the stands to film the Bengals' sidelines to his heart's content, rather than set up a tripod right in front of the Bengals' media team in the pressbox!
You may be right. If you are, then Belichick is the stupidest person in Martha's Vineyard.
