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Tomorrow will be a very strange day

The media will gather at the Intercontinental Hotel in Manhattan tomorrow morning to hear NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and, presumably, former Patriots video employee Matt Walsh, discuss their meeting about the now infamous Spygate affair.walsh.jpg

Hopefully, we will get some answers to questions that have hovered over the situation since Bill Belichick and his staff were caught illegally videotaping the Jets' defensive signals from the sidelines in a Week 1 game last season.

Perhaps we will even get some closure.

Given the strange set of events, nothing will surprise us tomorrow.

We will get you a report as soon as we're able, so check back early and often.

In the meantime, we have some questions for Mr. Walsh, who may or may not stick around to answer them. He may or may not be there with Goodell at the news conference, because Sen. Arlen Specter wants to chat with Walsh tomorrow, too. So Walsh might duck out of New York early and meet with the Senator and speak afterwards. Who knows? He might not speak at all.

In the meantime, there are so many questions, all of which were asked by ESPN's Sal Paolantonio in an interesting piece. All of which we agreed need to be asked by Goodell himself:

* When Walsh was taping the opponents' sidelines, how much was he told to conceal his activities?

* What measures were taken to conceal his taping?

* How concerned were his superiors that what Walsh was doing would be uncovered by a member of the opposing team?

* Was Walsh worried about getting caught? Why?

* What kind of instruction did Walsh get in how to tape the opposition's sideline?

* Who gave Walsh those instructions?

* Whom did he report to?

* What happened to the tapes?

* Where did they go?

* Who analyzed the tapes of the defensive signals?

* Were there written reports based on the tapes? Who wrote those reports? And, more important, who saw the reports or was told what was in them? Did Tom Brady? Or Charlie Weis, when he was offensive coordinator during the Patriots' run of Super Bowl titles?

* What was Walsh told about why this widespread practice of taping the opponents' defensive signals was vital to how the Patriots prepared for an opponent?

Interesting and important questions, one and all. Hopefully Walsh will provide some answers.

Maybe then we can get on with our lives.

Comments (2)

Bob, have you ever had a professional exchange go this poorly:
http://www.nj.com/mets/index.ssf/2008/05/breaking_news_delgados_agent_i.html

Either it's an incomplete link, or something was removed from it.

Couldn't see anything on the page.

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