1 00:00:14,431 --> 00:00:17,059 I grew up in the old Hoboken. It was tough. 2 00:00:19,269 --> 00:00:21,104 I was an altar boy myself. 3 00:00:22,022 --> 00:00:24,316 I learned you have to have faith in people. 4 00:00:25,567 --> 00:00:29,112 That really gave me an inner feeling to be a good cop. 5 00:00:30,822 --> 00:00:33,033 Initially, I was in narcotics. 6 00:00:33,033 --> 00:00:34,952 Worked deep undercover operations. 7 00:00:36,954 --> 00:00:38,539 If you go deep undercover, 8 00:00:38,539 --> 00:00:41,500 you're hanging out with them, eating with them, drinking with them. 9 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:43,919 You're meeting their families. 10 00:00:43,919 --> 00:00:47,339 {\an8}But once it's over, you gotta go back to reality. 11 00:00:47,965 --> 00:00:49,967 Be honest with you, I had a lot of guilty feelings 12 00:00:49,967 --> 00:00:51,802 after I got done working undercover. 13 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:55,931 It was actually the betrayal. 14 00:00:57,432 --> 00:00:59,560 I just couldn't do that to people. 15 00:01:01,395 --> 00:01:04,105 So I called the superintendent. 16 00:01:04,105 --> 00:01:07,109 And I says, "I gotta get out of here. I want to transfer." 17 00:01:07,109 --> 00:01:09,903 He goes, "Where do you want to go? You can go anywhere you want." 18 00:01:09,903 --> 00:01:11,488 I said, "I want to go to the Meadowlands." 19 00:01:11,488 --> 00:01:13,907 J-E-T-S! 20 00:01:13,907 --> 00:01:16,159 Jets! Jets! Jets! 21 00:01:16,159 --> 00:01:19,162 My nickname was Mayor of the Meadowlands. 22 00:01:19,162 --> 00:01:22,124 I dealt with security at the stadium. 23 00:01:22,749 --> 00:01:24,209 We had the football games. 24 00:01:24,835 --> 00:01:26,712 The fans getting drunk. 25 00:01:27,921 --> 00:01:33,051 But in my 35-year tenure down there, never had, really, any problems. 26 00:01:34,386 --> 00:01:37,139 Until the day of the Spygate. 27 00:01:37,890 --> 00:01:40,684 Patriots video assistant caught aiming a camera 28 00:01:40,684 --> 00:01:45,606 at the play calling signals of a New York Jets coach, a violation of league rules. 29 00:01:45,606 --> 00:01:48,817 They were blatant about this, and they got caught! 30 00:01:48,817 --> 00:01:50,110 It's premeditated! 31 00:01:50,110 --> 00:01:52,696 All of a sudden, the Patriots look like a dirty franchise. 32 00:01:52,696 --> 00:01:55,824 Their reign, their dynasty, is under fire now, under attack. 33 00:01:55,824 --> 00:01:57,618 It would be out of character, but nice, 34 00:01:57,618 --> 00:02:00,704 if Bill Belichick would stand up and answer questions. 35 00:02:00,704 --> 00:02:02,706 The tape will not lie. 36 00:02:09,295 --> 00:02:12,883 Defense! Defense! 37 00:02:15,802 --> 00:02:20,098 You have your arch-rival here, the Colts and the Patriots. 38 00:02:21,808 --> 00:02:25,562 Tom Brady, the king of the comeback. 39 00:02:25,562 --> 00:02:30,067 But this time he's down four, with 24 seconds to go. 40 00:02:30,067 --> 00:02:32,486 I don't even think Peyton's gonna watch. 41 00:02:37,074 --> 00:02:38,408 Brady fires. 42 00:02:40,202 --> 00:02:41,286 Intercepted! 43 00:02:43,580 --> 00:02:45,624 Colts are going to the Super Bowl! 44 00:02:56,426 --> 00:02:58,762 It was really tough. 45 00:02:58,762 --> 00:03:02,975 {\an8}Whoever won that game was probably gonna win the Super Bowl, and we could have. 46 00:03:02,975 --> 00:03:05,102 We didn't, but we could have. 47 00:03:09,106 --> 00:03:11,483 In football, if you can't control the game, 48 00:03:11,483 --> 00:03:14,736 {\an8}then, ultimately, I think your opponent's gonna wear you down, 49 00:03:14,736 --> 00:03:18,031 and they're gonna end up where you want to be. 50 00:03:19,283 --> 00:03:21,702 Is the Patriots dynasty over? 51 00:03:21,702 --> 00:03:24,413 Now that Indianapolis has burst the dam, 52 00:03:24,413 --> 00:03:26,331 I think that the dynasty is crumbling. 53 00:03:26,331 --> 00:03:28,458 This offense played lousy 54 00:03:28,458 --> 00:03:31,628 and definitely lost some of that aura of invincibility. 55 00:03:32,754 --> 00:03:36,008 I look back on that game. The offense, 56 00:03:36,008 --> 00:03:40,304 {\an8}we didn't get out in front enough and we couldn't score enough to beat 'em. 57 00:03:41,805 --> 00:03:46,143 Right away, going into that off season, Bill and I, 58 00:03:46,143 --> 00:03:49,521 we talked about, we got to find some new offensive blood. 59 00:03:50,606 --> 00:03:53,650 A receiver who's an alpha player. 60 00:03:55,402 --> 00:03:57,696 Like a guy who's gonna hang 50 on you. 61 00:04:00,365 --> 00:04:04,745 {\an8}I'm going inside a club, and my phone rings. 62 00:04:04,745 --> 00:04:06,288 "Hello?" 63 00:04:06,288 --> 00:04:10,000 "Hey, Randy, it's Coach Belichick." 64 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,627 And I... "What?" 65 00:04:11,627 --> 00:04:13,420 I said, "This is Bill Belichick of the Patriots." 66 00:04:13,420 --> 00:04:15,339 He goes, "What?" And hung up the phone. 67 00:04:15,339 --> 00:04:18,007 I'm like, "Maybe he doesn't want to come to New England." 68 00:04:18,007 --> 00:04:19,426 So then I called him again. 69 00:04:19,426 --> 00:04:21,178 "Hello?" 70 00:04:21,178 --> 00:04:23,889 "Randy, this is Coach Belichick." And I'm sitting there like, 71 00:04:23,889 --> 00:04:26,350 "Who the hell keeps playing on my phone?" 72 00:04:26,350 --> 00:04:29,895 And he's like, "All right, now who is this? Like, this is a prank." 73 00:04:29,895 --> 00:04:34,942 And so, I go, "No, no, this is Bill Belichick, and we've traded for you." 74 00:04:36,068 --> 00:04:38,862 He cut straight to the chase. He said, "Look, man, 75 00:04:38,862 --> 00:04:43,575 if you're not up here by 10:00 tomorrow morning, no trade." 76 00:04:43,575 --> 00:04:46,995 And I'm like, "Oh, shit. I just hung up on Bill." 77 00:04:48,997 --> 00:04:51,583 Me and a couple of my boys were sitting at a table, 78 00:04:51,583 --> 00:04:54,545 and I've ordered a 12-pack of Corona. 79 00:04:54,545 --> 00:04:58,215 Man, I held one of my Coronas, I said, "I'm gonna be a Patriot!" 80 00:04:59,091 --> 00:05:02,052 Randy Moss, acquired by the Patriots in a trade Sunday morning. 81 00:05:02,052 --> 00:05:03,929 Welcome to New England, Randy. 82 00:05:03,929 --> 00:05:07,140 He is arguably the most physically talented receiver 83 00:05:07,140 --> 00:05:08,809 in the entire NFL. 84 00:05:08,809 --> 00:05:10,644 With Moss catching passes from Tom Brady, 85 00:05:10,644 --> 00:05:13,522 they have to be considered front-runners to win it all. 86 00:05:13,522 --> 00:05:15,983 They made their offense so much better, 87 00:05:15,983 --> 00:05:17,901 and I still like Belichick in any big game, 88 00:05:17,901 --> 00:05:19,736 so I think they're the team to beat. 89 00:05:23,657 --> 00:05:26,910 Back here at the Meadowlands. Football is back. 90 00:05:26,910 --> 00:05:30,747 J-E-T-S! Jets! Jets! Jets! 91 00:05:32,457 --> 00:05:33,709 Let's get ready. 92 00:05:34,626 --> 00:05:35,919 Let's get ready, boys. 93 00:05:36,879 --> 00:05:39,339 It's my first game as a Patriot. 94 00:05:39,339 --> 00:05:44,178 During training camp, we'd run plays, but it really wasn't full speed. 95 00:05:44,678 --> 00:05:47,055 So I still haven't hit that extra button yet. 96 00:05:48,891 --> 00:05:50,642 We're driving. 97 00:05:51,351 --> 00:05:56,356 Next thing you know, Tom Brady says, "Hey, man. Just get open." 98 00:06:00,152 --> 00:06:02,362 Here he is again. Like a statue in the pocket. 99 00:06:02,362 --> 00:06:04,531 Able to go long for Moss! 100 00:06:04,531 --> 00:06:07,326 Everybody watched the movie Forrest Gump. 101 00:06:07,326 --> 00:06:09,953 Do you remember when Forrest Gump busted out them chains? 102 00:06:09,953 --> 00:06:12,080 They're supposed to straighten his legs out. 103 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,666 Remember his facial expression, how he was running, 104 00:06:14,666 --> 00:06:17,794 them chains came off, and then Forrest Gump's eyes are just... 105 00:06:17,794 --> 00:06:19,087 That's how I felt. 106 00:06:21,465 --> 00:06:24,009 Moss has his first touchdown as a Patriot. 107 00:06:24,510 --> 00:06:26,720 Randy Moss is one of those guys. 108 00:06:26,720 --> 00:06:28,388 Nobody catches up to him. 109 00:06:28,388 --> 00:06:29,848 We killed them. Let's go! 110 00:06:31,266 --> 00:06:35,395 I remember being on the sideline at the Meadowlands going, "Holy shit," 111 00:06:35,395 --> 00:06:37,022 like, "This is gonna be fun." 112 00:06:38,232 --> 00:06:41,026 I had no clue what was about to happen. 113 00:06:45,656 --> 00:06:48,242 {\an8}It was just your normal Sunday. 114 00:06:51,328 --> 00:06:55,749 The Patriots, they're winning. Nothing unusual. 115 00:06:56,959 --> 00:06:58,252 But then, all of a sudden, 116 00:06:58,252 --> 00:07:02,631 the security people from the Jets came to us with this camera. 117 00:07:02,631 --> 00:07:03,924 They said, "We have an issue." 118 00:07:05,676 --> 00:07:07,970 "One of the Patriots' photographers 119 00:07:07,970 --> 00:07:12,933 has been videotaping and spying on our coaches and our plays." 120 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:17,187 The camera is confiscated. 121 00:07:17,187 --> 00:07:20,107 But nobody had any fucking idea what to do. 122 00:07:21,692 --> 00:07:24,444 The Patriots would say, "That's my fucking property." 123 00:07:24,444 --> 00:07:25,571 The Jets were saying, 124 00:07:25,571 --> 00:07:28,657 "You're fucking spying on us. We don't want you to have it." 125 00:07:28,657 --> 00:07:32,703 I told him, "Possession is nine-tenths of the law. I'm in possession of it. 126 00:07:32,703 --> 00:07:35,372 It's staying with me until we decide what we're gonna do with it." 127 00:07:37,124 --> 00:07:40,294 And that was the most common-sense thing to do. 128 00:07:40,294 --> 00:07:42,462 Turn it over to the NFL and let them decide. 129 00:07:45,132 --> 00:07:47,092 Some suspense as the NFL is looking into this. 130 00:07:47,092 --> 00:07:49,386 What was a Patriots employee doing with a camera 131 00:07:49,386 --> 00:07:51,555 trained on Jets coaches Sunday in New Jersey? 132 00:07:51,555 --> 00:07:55,309 The cameraman in question was looking, quote, "scared to death." 133 00:07:55,809 --> 00:07:57,644 {\an8}It's all allegations at this point, 134 00:07:57,644 --> 00:07:59,980 {\an8}but if it's true, this has major ramifications. 135 00:07:59,980 --> 00:08:02,649 One thing we know for sure, the media and the other teams 136 00:08:02,649 --> 00:08:04,651 - are having a field day. - Yes, they are. 137 00:08:05,611 --> 00:08:08,822 {\an8}There's buzz around the league about the Patriots' Spygate situation. 138 00:08:08,822 --> 00:08:09,865 - Spygate... - Spygate... 139 00:08:09,865 --> 00:08:10,949 Spygate. 140 00:08:10,949 --> 00:08:12,576 This story is a mushroom cloud. 141 00:08:12,576 --> 00:08:15,120 It's bigger than I thought it would be. It's just, it's huge. 142 00:08:21,293 --> 00:08:24,046 Now, look at this. See, that's a camera. 143 00:08:24,838 --> 00:08:27,841 That's how the Patriots were cheating. 144 00:08:27,841 --> 00:08:30,302 Maybe this is just fine in New England, 145 00:08:30,302 --> 00:08:32,596 but here, ladies and gentlemen, no dice. 146 00:08:32,596 --> 00:08:33,804 No. 147 00:08:43,524 --> 00:08:45,734 Protecting the integrity of the game 148 00:08:45,734 --> 00:08:48,820 is one of the most significant things a commissioner needs to do. 149 00:08:51,698 --> 00:08:55,619 {\an8}Every coach, every player, even the 32 owners. 150 00:08:56,662 --> 00:08:58,914 They know my responsibility as commissioner, 151 00:08:58,914 --> 00:09:01,542 and they know I'm not going to compromise that. 152 00:09:02,709 --> 00:09:05,963 I heard about the issue late Sunday evening. 153 00:09:07,005 --> 00:09:10,175 And so, beginning first thing Monday morning, 154 00:09:10,175 --> 00:09:12,344 you have to go through a process of finding out 155 00:09:12,344 --> 00:09:14,096 whether they did violate the rules. 156 00:09:16,557 --> 00:09:19,226 With New England, some intrigue. 157 00:09:19,226 --> 00:09:23,647 The NFL is confirming that they have confiscated the camera and tape 158 00:09:23,647 --> 00:09:26,275 of a Patriots employee on the sideline. 159 00:09:26,275 --> 00:09:29,570 He was possibly stealing the Jets' defensive signals. 160 00:09:29,570 --> 00:09:32,698 That's why the Jets' defense stunk. It was espionage. 161 00:09:36,702 --> 00:09:41,123 {\an8}The Monday after the game, it was my first day with the Patriots. 162 00:09:42,499 --> 00:09:46,170 I came in as mainly a liaison to the league. 163 00:09:48,297 --> 00:09:51,091 The first piece of paper that I looked at 164 00:09:51,091 --> 00:09:54,094 was a letter from Commissioner Goodell essentially saying, 165 00:09:54,094 --> 00:09:58,307 "We're going to be investigating claims you have committed some rule violations." 166 00:09:59,975 --> 00:10:04,354 Immediately, I knew something very serious was up. 167 00:10:07,024 --> 00:10:12,029 The league wanted to send investigators to speak with members of our video crew. 168 00:10:12,654 --> 00:10:16,158 Bill, of course. And Ernie Adams. 169 00:10:17,534 --> 00:10:20,037 This was my first interaction with Ernie 170 00:10:20,037 --> 00:10:26,335 and understanding the historian, the scholar, the genius of Ernie Adams. 171 00:10:28,462 --> 00:10:31,590 Ernie Adams... I don't even know how to describe him. 172 00:10:32,674 --> 00:10:37,638 We used to see this guy walking around. He had these glasses, this moustache. 173 00:10:37,638 --> 00:10:40,057 {\an8}Always talking to Belichick in private. 174 00:10:40,057 --> 00:10:42,142 {\an8}They were always, like, kind of whispering. 175 00:10:42,935 --> 00:10:45,604 Ernie Adams being at the center of Spygate 176 00:10:45,604 --> 00:10:47,439 made perfect sense to me. 177 00:10:48,565 --> 00:10:50,359 He's a football savant. 178 00:10:50,359 --> 00:10:53,278 Ernie Adams is... a genius. 179 00:10:53,278 --> 00:10:58,534 {\an8}There's not one detail that Ernie Adams would not know about. 180 00:10:59,701 --> 00:11:02,496 {\an8}Just so you know, on this whole video thing... 181 00:11:02,496 --> 00:11:05,832 {\an8}- The video thing? - The Jets game in 2007. 182 00:11:05,832 --> 00:11:07,793 - Oh. - Okay, I just... 183 00:11:07,793 --> 00:11:11,213 - I'm... I'm not gonna re-open that. - We have to talk it-- 184 00:11:11,213 --> 00:11:13,590 Yeah, right, just so you know, I mean, this is... 185 00:11:13,590 --> 00:11:15,551 You're not... I'm not... I'm... 186 00:11:15,551 --> 00:11:17,845 Could I tell you stories? Yes. Am I going to? No. 187 00:11:17,845 --> 00:11:19,429 I got some... 188 00:11:20,722 --> 00:11:23,100 It's going to the grave with me a little bit. 189 00:11:23,100 --> 00:11:25,978 Well, let's just talk about it, we'll see where we go. 190 00:11:28,188 --> 00:11:29,648 We just sat down in the room. 191 00:11:29,648 --> 00:11:32,860 I think there were three people from the league and I was there. 192 00:11:33,777 --> 00:11:35,863 They were on a fact-finding mission. 193 00:11:35,863 --> 00:11:38,615 They were trying to determine what exactly had happened. 194 00:11:41,910 --> 00:11:45,080 The biggest thing everybody has to understand 195 00:11:45,080 --> 00:11:48,208 is there have been plenty of teams in the history of the National Football League 196 00:11:48,208 --> 00:11:51,044 who have tried to take another team's signals. 197 00:11:51,044 --> 00:11:55,424 You know, that's why you see a lot of coaches trying to cover their mouth. 198 00:11:55,424 --> 00:11:56,925 It's part of the game. 199 00:11:58,635 --> 00:12:01,096 I always figured other people are filming our signals. 200 00:12:01,096 --> 00:12:03,473 And I know in some cases, they were. 201 00:12:03,473 --> 00:12:06,935 It's, you know, kind of basic counterintelligence. 202 00:12:08,103 --> 00:12:11,940 Jay, I've heard somewhere you might have gotten your hands on this tape? 203 00:12:11,940 --> 00:12:14,234 Yes, absolutely, Kurt. Check this out. 204 00:12:14,234 --> 00:12:19,448 Video assistant clearly picking up the Jets' defensive coach's signals. 205 00:12:19,448 --> 00:12:22,618 The reason why you do that is you study these hand signals. 206 00:12:22,618 --> 00:12:26,079 "Hey, they're running this blitz, they're running this coverage." 207 00:12:26,079 --> 00:12:29,708 An entire system of covert videotaping was developed 208 00:12:29,708 --> 00:12:32,252 and a secret library created. 209 00:12:32,252 --> 00:12:37,174 During games, Adams then sat in the coaches' box with binoculars 210 00:12:37,174 --> 00:12:42,179 and notes of the decoded signals with direct audio to Belichick. 211 00:12:42,179 --> 00:12:46,308 They literally had the answers to the test before it was given. 212 00:12:47,684 --> 00:12:50,062 I know that this is a difficult subject. 213 00:12:51,146 --> 00:12:52,773 {\an8}But in 2007, 214 00:12:52,773 --> 00:12:55,692 {\an8}you were caught videotaping opposing teams' signals. 215 00:12:57,736 --> 00:12:59,738 Yeah. Again, that's all in the past, and I've... 216 00:12:59,738 --> 00:13:01,532 I've made my comments on that. 217 00:13:01,532 --> 00:13:03,450 I don't have anything to add. 218 00:13:07,329 --> 00:13:11,500 Some might argue in a game of inches, putting that kind of information, 219 00:13:11,500 --> 00:13:15,003 where you could decode signals, come up with specific plays 220 00:13:15,003 --> 00:13:18,674 to use in real time in a game is pure gold in the NFL, 221 00:13:18,674 --> 00:13:20,968 that could be the difference between winning and losing. 222 00:13:21,593 --> 00:13:24,972 Again, you can get those same signals by sitting up in the press box 223 00:13:24,972 --> 00:13:27,182 and writing down what the signal is and what the play was, 224 00:13:27,182 --> 00:13:29,268 and... and doing it that way. 225 00:13:29,268 --> 00:13:32,521 Those signals are available to anybody who wants to see them. 226 00:13:32,521 --> 00:13:34,189 But they don't have them on tape. 227 00:13:34,189 --> 00:13:38,151 We videotaped them. It wasn't anything that wasn't visible or wasn't available. 228 00:13:38,151 --> 00:13:40,112 We did it in a way that was more convenient, 229 00:13:40,112 --> 00:13:41,655 that we could study better. 230 00:13:41,655 --> 00:13:44,950 "Videotaping of any kind, including but not limited to 231 00:13:44,950 --> 00:13:47,911 taping of an opponent's offensive or defensive signals, 232 00:13:47,911 --> 00:13:51,623 is prohibited on the sidelines, in the coaches' booth, in the locker room, 233 00:13:51,623 --> 00:13:55,752 or at any other locations accessible to club members during the game." 234 00:13:55,752 --> 00:13:58,213 - That seems pretty crystal clear, Bill. - Right. 235 00:13:58,213 --> 00:14:00,048 Well, it clearly was a mistake. 236 00:14:00,674 --> 00:14:04,052 And some people would say that mistake was just flat-out cheating. 237 00:14:04,052 --> 00:14:07,139 And I interpreted it incorrectly. So I was wrong. 238 00:14:07,139 --> 00:14:12,311 Others have argued that you chose to gamble, to risk breaking the rules, 239 00:14:12,311 --> 00:14:14,062 and got caught. 240 00:14:14,062 --> 00:14:16,315 And it wasn't a misinterpretation of any kind. 241 00:14:18,108 --> 00:14:20,444 Well, I can't control what other people think out there. 242 00:14:20,444 --> 00:14:22,988 I'm telling you what happened. That's what happened. 243 00:14:22,988 --> 00:14:25,574 {\an8}You will never convince me that Bill Belichick, 244 00:14:25,574 --> 00:14:29,995 {\an8}the most ardent student of football that I've ever been around, 245 00:14:29,995 --> 00:14:31,413 doesn't know the rules. 246 00:14:31,413 --> 00:14:34,166 I just think he thought, "I'm smarter than everyone else. 247 00:14:34,166 --> 00:14:35,918 No one's gonna even know what I'm doing." 248 00:14:36,502 --> 00:14:38,754 And that's a great way to get caught. 249 00:14:43,342 --> 00:14:45,219 The NFL is getting ready to announce 250 00:14:45,219 --> 00:14:47,763 whether the New England Patriots cheated. 251 00:14:47,763 --> 00:14:50,599 They have every right to go after Bill Belichick, 252 00:14:50,599 --> 00:14:53,227 and I've got no problem with any sort of suspension. 253 00:14:53,227 --> 00:14:56,021 This is a huge, damning thing to the franchise, a huge deal, 254 00:14:56,021 --> 00:14:58,106 damning personally to Robert Kraft. 255 00:15:00,234 --> 00:15:02,986 You know, I couldn't believe it. 256 00:15:02,986 --> 00:15:07,199 {\an8}I went right over to Bill and I said, "Let me ask you something, Bill. 257 00:15:07,199 --> 00:15:09,868 {\an8}How important to us 258 00:15:09,868 --> 00:15:15,874 is something like that on a scale of one to 100?" 259 00:15:15,874 --> 00:15:18,252 And he said to me, "One." 260 00:15:19,086 --> 00:15:22,130 I said to him, "Then you're a real schmuck." 261 00:15:24,633 --> 00:15:27,302 Look, I was pissed with Bill. 262 00:15:28,011 --> 00:15:31,181 But when you have division from within, 263 00:15:31,181 --> 00:15:35,644 it can be very destructive and dangerous. 264 00:15:35,644 --> 00:15:38,564 So, I protected Bill. 265 00:15:39,731 --> 00:15:43,819 I talked with the lawyers from the NFL office. 266 00:15:43,819 --> 00:15:46,905 I said, "Look, fine Bill, fine us. 267 00:15:46,905 --> 00:15:50,534 Do whatever you got to do, but don't suspend him." 268 00:15:50,534 --> 00:15:53,704 We tried to protect his reputation. 269 00:15:54,079 --> 00:15:57,583 {\an8}The three-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots 270 00:15:57,583 --> 00:16:02,337 {\an8}and their coach, Bill Belichick, have been punished for spying on their opponents. 271 00:16:02,337 --> 00:16:05,465 The NFL fined Belichick himself half a million dollars. 272 00:16:05,465 --> 00:16:09,386 ...five hundred thousand dollars, the team another 250,000, 273 00:16:09,386 --> 00:16:12,181 plus at least one first day draft pick. 274 00:16:12,181 --> 00:16:14,516 Even though the punishment was unprecedented, 275 00:16:14,516 --> 00:16:17,269 there are a lot of people in the league who feel it should've been more severe. 276 00:16:17,269 --> 00:16:19,229 Bill Belichick should've been suspended 277 00:16:19,229 --> 00:16:21,148 for at least a couple of games. 278 00:16:21,148 --> 00:16:23,942 You have to wonder if the Kraft factor came into play. 279 00:16:23,942 --> 00:16:27,196 Robert Kraft is so beloved in the NFL offices. 280 00:16:27,696 --> 00:16:31,408 Robert Kraft is one of the most powerful owners in sports. 281 00:16:31,408 --> 00:16:34,286 He's got a tremendous amount of power and influence. 282 00:16:34,286 --> 00:16:36,663 It's just how it works. Is it fair? 283 00:16:36,663 --> 00:16:39,416 Usually not, in my estimation. 284 00:16:46,256 --> 00:16:49,426 Anything left open was media fodder. 285 00:16:50,677 --> 00:16:52,804 And it was gonna be a story. 286 00:16:53,388 --> 00:16:57,518 And so the NFL flew security personnel in again. 287 00:16:58,310 --> 00:17:03,857 And it was decided that we would destroy the tapes on premises. 288 00:17:07,444 --> 00:17:11,573 So, I remember walking down the hallway and asking someone for a hammer. 289 00:17:12,532 --> 00:17:14,952 And they took the hammer to the tapes. 290 00:17:16,244 --> 00:17:20,082 And I'm on my hands and knees in a dress and high heels 291 00:17:20,082 --> 00:17:22,960 picking up the tapes and throwing them away. 292 00:17:25,503 --> 00:17:28,257 I remember thinking to myself... 293 00:17:30,175 --> 00:17:33,637 "All the news cycles. All the commentary. 294 00:17:34,388 --> 00:17:38,350 This is done. It's over. We've been fined. This is over." 295 00:17:38,892 --> 00:17:40,477 That is not at all what happened. 296 00:17:44,565 --> 00:17:47,109 {\an8}So, why did you destroy the tapes? 297 00:17:47,109 --> 00:17:50,070 {\an8}Because we had an admission of guilt, there was no purpose for the tape. 298 00:17:50,070 --> 00:17:51,864 {\an8}The tapes are competitive. 299 00:17:51,864 --> 00:17:55,784 I didn't want them to have access to that, and I don't want the other 32 teams... 300 00:17:55,784 --> 00:17:58,829 How would anyone get access to it if you had it in your possession? 301 00:17:58,829 --> 00:18:03,458 The same way, unfortunately, it got out to the media a week after we discovered it. 302 00:18:03,458 --> 00:18:06,378 So, unfortunately, there are ways in which tapes get out. 303 00:18:06,378 --> 00:18:08,547 From my standpoint, there was no purpose for it. 304 00:18:08,547 --> 00:18:12,384 That's why I destroyed all his notes and all his tapes. Okay, thank you. 305 00:18:12,384 --> 00:18:14,761 - Thank you, commissioner. - Okay. 306 00:18:14,761 --> 00:18:19,057 The league, the Patriots, they just want this Spygate thing to go away, 307 00:18:19,057 --> 00:18:21,351 but a lot of people around the league are still thinking, 308 00:18:21,351 --> 00:18:25,606 "Hey, New England was caught cheating and it's a black mark on their success." 309 00:18:26,273 --> 00:18:29,151 This is a man who was establishing his coaching legacy, 310 00:18:29,151 --> 00:18:30,485 and now and forever, 311 00:18:30,485 --> 00:18:34,489 it becomes incumbent upon whoever writes the ultimate story about Bill Belichick 312 00:18:34,489 --> 00:18:36,491 to put that he cheated. 313 00:18:36,491 --> 00:18:41,955 Here is the flat facts. Bill Belichick, you are now known as a cheater. 314 00:18:41,955 --> 00:18:43,665 Cheater. How does that sound? 315 00:18:43,665 --> 00:18:46,126 That doesn't sound too good, and it's embarrassing 316 00:18:46,126 --> 00:18:48,795 not only to yourself, Bill, but to your players. 317 00:18:48,795 --> 00:18:52,508 You've hurt your ownership, you've hurt the fans in the city. 318 00:18:52,508 --> 00:18:54,009 All because of your arrogance. 319 00:19:00,474 --> 00:19:02,851 I know there's a lot of interest here on the... 320 00:19:02,851 --> 00:19:05,145 you know, the situation decision last night. 321 00:19:05,145 --> 00:19:10,526 But, as I stated, it's over and we're moving on. 322 00:19:10,526 --> 00:19:14,488 And right now, all my energy and focus and attention 323 00:19:14,488 --> 00:19:17,616 is on the San Diego Chargers and that game Sunday night. 324 00:19:17,616 --> 00:19:19,326 So that's where we're at. 325 00:19:20,285 --> 00:19:23,330 Bill, tell us why you've never actually stood in front of people 326 00:19:23,330 --> 00:19:25,249 and expressed remorse. 327 00:19:26,667 --> 00:19:29,336 Right now, we're focusing on what's in front of us, 328 00:19:29,336 --> 00:19:30,712 and that's the Chargers. 329 00:19:30,712 --> 00:19:32,297 We're moving on. 330 00:19:32,756 --> 00:19:34,174 Okay, thank you. 331 00:19:35,008 --> 00:19:39,054 As a columnist, I'd spent a lot of time with Bill, 332 00:19:39,054 --> 00:19:41,682 and I felt like I knew him. 333 00:19:43,851 --> 00:19:47,521 But with Spygate, I saw a different Bill. 334 00:19:49,731 --> 00:19:52,192 Nobody ever thinks that when they reach the top 335 00:19:52,192 --> 00:19:54,903 {\an8}that they're gonna change. Nobody thinks that. 336 00:19:55,779 --> 00:19:56,780 {\an8}But they do. 337 00:19:56,780 --> 00:19:59,157 Three Super Bowls in four years, coach. 338 00:19:59,157 --> 00:20:02,911 Surely the word "dynasty" has to be something now you think about 339 00:20:02,911 --> 00:20:04,997 when you talk about your football team. 340 00:20:05,873 --> 00:20:10,252 After multiple championships, there's hubris. 341 00:20:11,461 --> 00:20:14,715 To Belichick, rules don't apply to him. 342 00:20:15,841 --> 00:20:18,886 And he doesn't like being called out. Period. 343 00:20:20,137 --> 00:20:23,891 He was called out by the commissioner, the media. 344 00:20:23,891 --> 00:20:27,644 {\an8}And he was called out by Eric Mangini and the Jets. 345 00:20:28,979 --> 00:20:33,483 {\an8}This whole scandal all started a couple of days earlier 346 00:20:33,483 --> 00:20:35,819 in the Patriots' first game of the year, 347 00:20:35,819 --> 00:20:40,782 when Bill’s former assistant coach and friend, Eric Mangini, 348 00:20:40,782 --> 00:20:43,744 now the head coach of the Jets, ratted him out. 349 00:20:44,578 --> 00:20:48,790 {\an8}J-E-T-S! Jets! Jets! Jets! 350 00:20:50,417 --> 00:20:52,711 The Jets have their home opener against the Patriots. 351 00:20:52,711 --> 00:20:56,423 Jets head coach Eric Mangini will face his mentor Bill Belichick. 352 00:20:56,423 --> 00:21:00,427 Just think about it. It's like father and son. It's coach, protégé. 353 00:21:00,427 --> 00:21:02,513 That's a bond that can never be broken. 354 00:21:03,931 --> 00:21:07,184 Eric Mangini knows that they're gonna be taping him, 355 00:21:07,184 --> 00:21:12,731 because he, as an assistant, would witness the Patriots taping opponents. 356 00:21:12,731 --> 00:21:15,943 So he tells the league, "They've got cameras. Watch them." 357 00:21:17,569 --> 00:21:23,617 Eric Mangini, of all people. Belichick mentee, his guy. 358 00:21:24,493 --> 00:21:28,705 I respect the commissioner's decision and anything related to the decision. 359 00:21:28,705 --> 00:21:32,334 Anything associated with the decision is really a league matter. 360 00:21:33,335 --> 00:21:35,462 - Thank you. - Thanks, guys. 361 00:21:35,462 --> 00:21:37,422 Betrayal. 362 00:21:37,422 --> 00:21:41,385 It's just terrible, you know, emotionally. 363 00:21:41,385 --> 00:21:44,346 And sometimes it's very tough to swallow. 364 00:21:46,306 --> 00:21:49,393 Mangini. Did he rat his former boss out? 365 00:21:49,393 --> 00:21:52,187 Well, unless these guys took a bond, omertà, 366 00:21:52,187 --> 00:21:54,273 when they all worked for the Patriots, 367 00:21:54,273 --> 00:21:57,192 if you're there and there's a history of doing this illegal filming, 368 00:21:57,192 --> 00:22:00,487 every coach that came through there, they know about this. 369 00:22:00,487 --> 00:22:04,408 The unspoken rule is that when you leave the family, you leave the family. 370 00:22:05,117 --> 00:22:09,496 {\an8}You honor the opportunity that was given. 371 00:22:09,496 --> 00:22:11,290 {\an8}You don't make a mess. 372 00:22:11,290 --> 00:22:15,836 You remember how you got your first step in the door. 373 00:22:15,836 --> 00:22:17,796 You don't make a mess. 374 00:22:19,882 --> 00:22:21,967 Bill was very close with Eric. 375 00:22:22,718 --> 00:22:28,140 And his very normal human reaction was a feeling of betrayal. 376 00:22:29,349 --> 00:22:34,605 And he distanced himself from those of us that were closest to him. 377 00:22:40,277 --> 00:22:44,823 You could feel a certain type of energy in that building. 378 00:22:44,823 --> 00:22:46,283 A certain type of anger. 379 00:22:47,534 --> 00:22:49,870 A certain type of vengeance. 380 00:22:52,664 --> 00:22:56,251 It has been a very rough week for a storied NFL franchise, 381 00:22:56,251 --> 00:22:59,213 and when the New England Patriots take the field later tonight 382 00:22:59,213 --> 00:23:02,716 against the San Diego Chargers, it will be under a dark cloud. 383 00:23:02,716 --> 00:23:07,054 All right now, look, I don't want to say anything about this Jet thing, okay? 384 00:23:07,054 --> 00:23:08,931 Just shut the fuck up. 385 00:23:08,931 --> 00:23:11,058 Just worry about ourselves, our team. 386 00:23:11,058 --> 00:23:14,311 Everybody else is gonna say what they wanna say. We can't control that. 387 00:23:14,311 --> 00:23:18,065 But we can control what we're talking about and what we're doing, okay? 388 00:23:18,065 --> 00:23:19,608 We got a lot of work to do. 389 00:23:23,820 --> 00:23:27,074 Welcome to Foxborough. This is a tremendous matchup, 390 00:23:27,074 --> 00:23:31,370 but first, Spygate, Videogate, Cameragate, whatever you want to call it. 391 00:23:32,287 --> 00:23:35,624 The Patriots were thought of as one of the model franchises. 392 00:23:35,624 --> 00:23:38,585 That image has taken a whack this week. 393 00:23:39,461 --> 00:23:42,631 They're telling us these are frequency coordinators 394 00:23:42,631 --> 00:23:44,883 monitoring the frequencies tonight. 395 00:23:46,802 --> 00:23:49,763 So, Bill Belichick in the crosshairs, there's no question about that. 396 00:23:49,763 --> 00:23:51,932 Right. Does this affect the team? 397 00:23:51,932 --> 00:23:52,891 [Brady] Hike! 398 00:23:52,891 --> 00:23:55,310 Brady, second and nine, 399 00:23:55,310 --> 00:23:58,397 and the pass is caught by Moss for a touchdown! 400 00:23:58,397 --> 00:24:00,399 This guy is amazing. 401 00:24:00,399 --> 00:24:04,862 It's almost as if the Patriots said, "We don't need any cameras." 402 00:24:06,864 --> 00:24:10,409 All week I'm hearing all this stuff about Spygate. 403 00:24:10,409 --> 00:24:13,954 It made me think back to Mr. Kraft telling me, 404 00:24:13,954 --> 00:24:17,332 "Hey, through thick and thin, we're family here." 405 00:24:18,542 --> 00:24:23,213 Just a special moment for me, because it was something that I was searching for. 406 00:24:23,922 --> 00:24:26,925 And he just said, "What I mean by family, you hold everybody accountable. 407 00:24:27,676 --> 00:24:30,846 I don't care if you're at the bottom or if you're at the top, 408 00:24:30,846 --> 00:24:33,807 if you get in trouble, I get in trouble. 409 00:24:33,807 --> 00:24:35,350 That's football family." 410 00:24:35,350 --> 00:24:38,854 Hey! We are not finished! We ain't done. 411 00:24:38,854 --> 00:24:41,106 We are beating their ass for 60 minutes, all right? 412 00:24:41,857 --> 00:24:45,402 Brady. Open. Randy Moss. Touchdown. 413 00:24:47,321 --> 00:24:51,158 So, the Patriots, with all the tumult over the past week, 414 00:24:51,158 --> 00:24:54,036 have been picture perfect. 415 00:24:54,036 --> 00:24:56,622 And it's funny how, you know, you circle the wagons, 416 00:24:56,622 --> 00:24:58,832 and right there, they're circling the wagons. 417 00:25:02,085 --> 00:25:04,004 I hope you appreciate this question, coach. 418 00:25:04,004 --> 00:25:06,340 Say, fellas, how we feel about playing for Bill Belichick? 419 00:25:06,340 --> 00:25:09,343 Aw, yeah! 420 00:25:11,220 --> 00:25:17,351 After the whole Spygate thing, we had a lot of emotions for Bill. 421 00:25:17,351 --> 00:25:19,353 Hate. Love. 422 00:25:19,353 --> 00:25:22,397 {\an8}I mean, everything... everything. But he was ours. 423 00:25:23,732 --> 00:25:26,610 And everybody's just going after our coach. 424 00:25:30,489 --> 00:25:33,075 Cheaters! 425 00:25:34,368 --> 00:25:39,665 Bill would never express how he despised everything that was said. 426 00:25:40,582 --> 00:25:44,378 Like trying to invalidate everything that we've done because of a signal. 427 00:25:45,838 --> 00:25:51,051 But this is how we knew when he felt it. That offense kept scoring. 428 00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:53,595 Brady to throw. 429 00:25:54,721 --> 00:25:59,351 Randy Moss goes up and gets it. Sixth touchdown of the season. 430 00:26:00,853 --> 00:26:02,563 Bill was just relentless. 431 00:26:03,897 --> 00:26:06,400 We'd be up by 20, 30 points. 432 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,112 And he's telling the offense, "Do it again." 433 00:26:11,113 --> 00:26:14,533 Brady going deep for Moss at the goal line. 434 00:26:14,533 --> 00:26:16,952 Did he catch that? Touchdown. 435 00:26:16,952 --> 00:26:20,372 New England leads 42 to 7. 436 00:26:20,372 --> 00:26:25,627 We're beating people's ass so bad that we're the bad guys. 437 00:26:26,295 --> 00:26:27,629 Sort of liked it, though. 438 00:26:27,629 --> 00:26:31,633 Brady going for Randy Moss in the end zone. 439 00:26:31,633 --> 00:26:35,345 This is unbelievable. This is unbelievable! 440 00:26:35,345 --> 00:26:38,849 Each week, Bill wanted to take the jugular. 441 00:26:38,849 --> 00:26:41,977 To Moss. Touchdown. 442 00:26:41,977 --> 00:26:44,605 I appreciate his killer instinct. 443 00:26:44,605 --> 00:26:47,399 I'm a bad motherfucker too, now. 444 00:26:48,692 --> 00:26:51,069 On the hitch. Brady for Moss. 445 00:26:51,069 --> 00:26:53,906 Guarded by two, another touchdown! 446 00:26:53,906 --> 00:26:57,117 A shooting gallery for New England today. 447 00:26:58,160 --> 00:27:00,829 Spygate. We all took it personal. 448 00:27:00,829 --> 00:27:04,499 {\an8}We're not out here just to win games. We're out here to fucking make you quit. 449 00:27:04,499 --> 00:27:08,003 {\an8}We want to... We want to do very bad things to you. 450 00:27:09,505 --> 00:27:12,508 Brady... hits Stallworth in stride. 451 00:27:12,508 --> 00:27:14,885 He's gonna take it in for a touchdown. 452 00:27:14,885 --> 00:27:17,054 What the fuck was Dallas thinking? 453 00:27:17,054 --> 00:27:19,306 Man, what the fuck was the Dallas Cowboys thinking? 454 00:27:19,306 --> 00:27:21,892 Forty-eight in their house. Make 'em pay. 455 00:27:21,892 --> 00:27:25,395 Our goal was to blow everybody out the water. 456 00:27:26,021 --> 00:27:28,065 {\an8}Fuck 'em all. That's our mentality. 457 00:27:28,065 --> 00:27:30,651 {\an8}That's our little thing. Fuck 'em all. 458 00:27:30,651 --> 00:27:33,570 Campbell loses the football. 459 00:27:34,488 --> 00:27:38,784 Colvin takes it to the end zone for a Patriots touchdown. 460 00:27:39,326 --> 00:27:44,414 Patriots are now averaging just over 41 points per game. 461 00:27:47,000 --> 00:27:50,587 All right, congratulations, men. That's shut 'em the fuck up. 462 00:27:51,547 --> 00:27:52,714 Yeah! 463 00:27:52,714 --> 00:27:54,883 Let's handle this one the way we always do. 464 00:27:54,883 --> 00:27:59,054 It's not the first time we've won a game. We got a long way to go, all right? 465 00:27:59,054 --> 00:28:02,432 So I'm telling you, don't come in here Wednesday, all right, 466 00:28:02,432 --> 00:28:07,396 like it's fucking YMCA camp, all right, because it's not gonna be. 467 00:28:07,396 --> 00:28:09,773 That... I will promise you. It'll be a work day. 468 00:28:14,027 --> 00:28:15,988 Hey, Bru, go on kick that music on. 469 00:28:16,530 --> 00:28:19,074 Oh, yeah, Bru! 470 00:28:21,201 --> 00:28:23,287 I'll tell you, here we go, here we go! 471 00:28:23,287 --> 00:28:26,123 Bill never told us not to celebrate. 472 00:28:26,123 --> 00:28:27,749 We gonna play this song. Come on! 473 00:28:27,749 --> 00:28:30,878 You gotta learn this to survive under Bill Belichick. 474 00:28:30,878 --> 00:28:33,797 "We just did everything you wanted us to do for that Sunday, 475 00:28:33,797 --> 00:28:36,967 and we got your message. We got this right now, Bill, don't worry." 476 00:28:36,967 --> 00:28:41,096 Bam, to the locker room. Push play, "Another One Bites the Dust" would play. 477 00:28:41,096 --> 00:28:45,267 It was our little time to say, "We did that shit. Again." 478 00:28:45,267 --> 00:28:48,437 How about serving up some fresh hot humble popcorn? 479 00:28:54,067 --> 00:28:56,111 Direct snap, Brady. He stands in the pocket, 480 00:28:56,111 --> 00:29:00,574 he fires down the field and it is caught left side. Touchdown! 481 00:29:00,574 --> 00:29:03,160 Easy as pie on that one. 482 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:05,662 This is a team that can go undefeated. 483 00:29:05,662 --> 00:29:07,623 - You think they can go undefeated? - Yes. 484 00:29:07,623 --> 00:29:09,958 This football team can go undefeated. 485 00:29:09,958 --> 00:29:12,836 ...for Brady, the pump, the throw. It is... 486 00:29:12,836 --> 00:29:15,797 - caught for the touchdown! - 12 and 0! 487 00:29:15,797 --> 00:29:18,217 From the end zone, passed picked, 488 00:29:18,217 --> 00:29:20,511 and an easy touchdown for New England. 489 00:29:20,511 --> 00:29:23,055 The Patriots' pursuit of perfection continues. 490 00:29:23,055 --> 00:29:24,473 A perfect 14 and 0. 491 00:29:25,807 --> 00:29:27,392 We own that shit, too! 492 00:29:28,519 --> 00:29:30,729 Brady, with time... 493 00:29:35,776 --> 00:29:37,778 Touchdown, Patriots! 494 00:29:37,778 --> 00:29:41,490 The Patriots go through a regular season 16 and 0. 495 00:29:42,950 --> 00:29:44,785 Let's be honest, Bill Belichick and the Patriots 496 00:29:44,785 --> 00:29:48,038 focusing in on just one record, and that is 19 and 0. 497 00:29:48,038 --> 00:29:49,873 They gotta win the Super Bowl. 498 00:29:49,873 --> 00:29:52,501 I care about one game in February. You know? 499 00:29:54,044 --> 00:29:57,840 Patriots take the field for the AFC championship game. 500 00:29:59,258 --> 00:30:01,718 One step from the Super Bowl. 501 00:30:03,095 --> 00:30:04,972 Touchdown, New England. 502 00:30:06,515 --> 00:30:09,268 The Patriots, 18 and nothing. 503 00:30:09,268 --> 00:30:13,188 They are unbeaten going to Super Bowl 42. 504 00:30:23,866 --> 00:30:27,160 The Super Bowl will be played this Sunday in Glendale, Arizona. 505 00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:31,331 The New York Giants will face off against the undefeated New England Patriots. 506 00:30:32,374 --> 00:30:35,669 If the Giants win, it'll be one of the greatest upsets. 507 00:30:35,669 --> 00:30:39,756 If the Patriots win and go 19 and 0, 508 00:30:39,756 --> 00:30:42,759 we'll be experiencing a holy moment 509 00:30:42,759 --> 00:30:44,887 in the history of the National Football League. 510 00:30:48,182 --> 00:30:51,935 We're going back, baby. We're goin' to the motherfucking show. 511 00:30:52,895 --> 00:30:55,272 We just won AFC Championship. 512 00:30:56,607 --> 00:30:59,776 And now? We got the fucking Super Bowl. 513 00:30:59,776 --> 00:31:01,320 One more, fellas. 514 00:31:02,696 --> 00:31:06,366 I'm sitting up here thinking, like, the perfect season. 515 00:31:06,366 --> 00:31:09,661 We're just one game from making it happen. 516 00:31:10,537 --> 00:31:12,915 Tunnel vision. Ain't no playing. 517 00:31:12,915 --> 00:31:15,167 Here it is, it's time to rock. 518 00:31:15,167 --> 00:31:18,754 Going to the Super Bowl! 519 00:31:18,754 --> 00:31:20,714 Congratulations, buddy. 520 00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:28,305 Having won three Super Bowls and now going to another, 521 00:31:28,305 --> 00:31:32,017 we'd been blessed and almost a little spoiled. 522 00:31:32,809 --> 00:31:35,395 I thought it was God's hand at work. 523 00:31:36,688 --> 00:31:38,899 But, this time, 524 00:31:38,899 --> 00:31:42,444 it was just the reverse. 525 00:31:43,862 --> 00:31:45,948 It was the devil at work. 526 00:31:49,660 --> 00:31:54,873 Leading to the Super Bowl, we had the devil playing everywhere he could, 527 00:31:54,873 --> 00:31:59,378 facilitating things that weren't in our interest. 528 00:32:01,713 --> 00:32:03,882 Tom. How are you doing, Tom? 529 00:32:03,882 --> 00:32:05,592 How's the foot? 530 00:32:08,512 --> 00:32:10,013 How's the foot? 531 00:32:10,681 --> 00:32:14,476 Tom had hurt his ankle in the AFC championship game, 532 00:32:14,476 --> 00:32:18,272 and less than two weeks before the Super Bowl, he's in New York. 533 00:32:20,065 --> 00:32:25,362 At the time, he was dating a big-time model and his future wife, Gisele. 534 00:32:25,362 --> 00:32:27,823 Gisele, will you be there with him at the game? 535 00:32:27,823 --> 00:32:31,952 {\an8}And the New York paparazzi get a shot of him wearing a boot. 536 00:32:35,163 --> 00:32:38,292 And it starts this firestorm. 537 00:32:38,292 --> 00:32:41,795 Tom Brady was seen outside his girlfriend Gisele Bündchen's apartment 538 00:32:41,795 --> 00:32:44,423 here in New York yesterday wearing a cast. 539 00:32:44,423 --> 00:32:47,843 Look, Tom Brady has a slightly sprained ankle. 540 00:32:47,843 --> 00:32:50,804 He's trying to be protective with it. It's not a big deal. 541 00:32:50,804 --> 00:32:53,682 It's certainly relevant. When the quarterback of a team 542 00:32:53,682 --> 00:32:56,977 that is trying to make history and probably the greatest quarterback ever 543 00:32:56,977 --> 00:32:59,730 is injured before the biggest game of the season. 544 00:32:59,730 --> 00:33:06,069 Let's go, Giants! Let's go, Giants! Let's go, Giants! 545 00:33:07,779 --> 00:33:10,073 Tom, man, good luck in the Super Bowl, man. 546 00:33:11,617 --> 00:33:13,535 Tom Brady and the New England Patriots 547 00:33:13,535 --> 00:33:15,913 arrived Sunday in Arizona for the Super Bowl. 548 00:33:15,913 --> 00:33:18,040 He admits he did injure his ankle a week ago, 549 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:20,417 but says he's ready to go next Sunday. 550 00:33:20,417 --> 00:33:25,380 When the New York media picked up the thing with Tommy with the boot, 551 00:33:25,380 --> 00:33:30,177 that was the beginning of a very difficult Super Bowl week. 552 00:33:31,762 --> 00:33:34,806 People said things and put things out there 553 00:33:34,806 --> 00:33:37,976 that allowed the haters to come out in droves. 554 00:33:37,976 --> 00:33:41,063 Well, another day, another little piece of intrigue, 555 00:33:41,063 --> 00:33:42,814 {\an8}as we get set for the Super Bowl. 556 00:33:42,814 --> 00:33:46,401 {\an8}Six years ago, the Saint Louis Rams played the role of the massive favorite. 557 00:33:46,401 --> 00:33:49,571 The Patriots start in the role the Giants will be enjoying Sunday. 558 00:33:51,031 --> 00:33:53,158 Now the Boston Herald reports 559 00:33:53,158 --> 00:33:55,661 a source close to New England at that time 560 00:33:55,661 --> 00:33:59,998 says a member of the Patriots' staff filmed the Rams' final walkthrough. 561 00:34:02,376 --> 00:34:05,963 Splashed on the back and front pages of the Boston Herald 562 00:34:05,963 --> 00:34:08,799 was this revelation that the Patriots 563 00:34:08,799 --> 00:34:11,467 {\an8}recorded the Saint Louis Rams 564 00:34:11,467 --> 00:34:14,721 before Super Bowl 36. 565 00:34:15,889 --> 00:34:18,016 People immediately came out and said, 566 00:34:18,016 --> 00:34:20,978 "No wonder they won the game. They were cheating!" 567 00:34:20,978 --> 00:34:24,731 I think that what we're really talking about here is fair play. 568 00:34:24,731 --> 00:34:26,692 The edict of fair play. 569 00:34:26,692 --> 00:34:29,402 This is impactful. This is changing games. 570 00:34:29,402 --> 00:34:33,156 You are now getting inside the other teams' huddle. You know what's coming. 571 00:34:33,156 --> 00:34:35,242 I don't care what you say. That's a problem! 572 00:34:36,702 --> 00:34:39,454 The story was absolutely not true. 573 00:34:40,330 --> 00:34:43,876 And I told the editors of the Boston Herald 574 00:34:43,876 --> 00:34:48,422 in no uncertain terms that if they didn't retract that story, 575 00:34:48,422 --> 00:34:51,216 we were gonna come after them guns a-blazing. 576 00:34:52,259 --> 00:34:55,012 {\an8}I think I said something to the effect then, you know, 577 00:34:55,012 --> 00:34:56,889 {\an8}"We're gonna own your paper pretty soon." 578 00:34:56,889 --> 00:35:00,017 {\an8}And if the paper was worth owning, we would've owned their newspaper. 579 00:35:00,017 --> 00:35:02,060 But it wasn't something worth owning. 580 00:35:03,687 --> 00:35:08,358 Ultimately, the Boston Herald ran a full apology. 581 00:35:08,358 --> 00:35:10,903 But the damage had already been done. 582 00:35:14,698 --> 00:35:18,076 {\an8}Super Bowl 42. The revelations recently about Spygate 583 00:35:18,076 --> 00:35:20,329 further fuel the public perception 584 00:35:20,329 --> 00:35:23,540 that what the Patriots have accomplished is tainted. 585 00:35:23,540 --> 00:35:29,046 Boston sucks! Boston sucks! 586 00:35:31,548 --> 00:35:35,010 That Super Bowl, it was like you've got the cheater. 587 00:35:35,010 --> 00:35:37,596 It's the New England Patriots. That's how the country saw them. 588 00:35:38,597 --> 00:35:40,891 They've got the pretty boy quarterback. 589 00:35:40,891 --> 00:35:44,853 They've got the coach who's a rule-breaker. 590 00:35:44,853 --> 00:35:46,563 So we'll watch for that. 591 00:35:46,563 --> 00:35:48,190 We'll hate-watch them. 592 00:35:50,692 --> 00:35:53,028 The Patriots trying to go 19 and 0, 593 00:35:53,028 --> 00:35:56,198 and the New York Giants trying to shut it down. 594 00:35:56,198 --> 00:35:58,867 Everybody talkin' about a dynasty. 595 00:35:58,867 --> 00:36:00,410 Our dynasty starts today. 596 00:36:01,954 --> 00:36:05,249 By that point, the Patriots had become the villain. 597 00:36:05,249 --> 00:36:08,293 That's what the energy of the building was. 598 00:36:08,293 --> 00:36:11,421 {\an8}It felt like darkness against light, good against evil. 599 00:36:12,130 --> 00:36:15,175 Tom Brady and company head to work. 600 00:36:15,926 --> 00:36:18,095 We understood Tom Brady's the catalyst 601 00:36:18,095 --> 00:36:19,888 for how well that offense worked. 602 00:36:19,888 --> 00:36:24,685 So we had to hit him almost every time he dropped back. 603 00:36:24,685 --> 00:36:26,687 Let's kick the devil's ass. 604 00:37:08,437 --> 00:37:11,190 To sack Tom Brady is special. 605 00:37:12,149 --> 00:37:14,985 Not because he's cuddly and soft, which he is, 606 00:37:14,985 --> 00:37:17,279 but it's like a Christmas gift. 607 00:37:18,197 --> 00:37:20,991 I just... I just wanna open that present over and over again. 608 00:37:20,991 --> 00:37:22,659 I never get sick of it. 609 00:37:38,133 --> 00:37:41,428 Tom Brady has been under fire all night. 610 00:37:41,428 --> 00:37:44,848 This New England offense, which was the highest scoring offense 611 00:37:44,848 --> 00:37:46,850 in the history of the league, 612 00:37:46,850 --> 00:37:49,478 held in check by the Giants defense. 613 00:37:49,478 --> 00:37:53,190 Ten-seven, the Giants leading here in this final quarter. 614 00:37:58,278 --> 00:38:00,906 You know, me and Tom, 615 00:38:00,906 --> 00:38:03,325 {\an8}we were struggling most of the game. 616 00:38:03,325 --> 00:38:06,286 You know, all the talk about his ankle a week ago, 617 00:38:06,286 --> 00:38:08,413 it was a real factor, and I've got to believe 618 00:38:08,413 --> 00:38:12,918 that even though he's saying it's okay that it's still bothering him a lot. 619 00:38:12,918 --> 00:38:17,464 That was my first Super Bowl, so as a professional, 620 00:38:17,464 --> 00:38:20,050 I don't know what it feels like to come in first. 621 00:38:20,050 --> 00:38:26,515 You know? So, for me to come this close, only to come in second... 622 00:38:26,515 --> 00:38:27,850 Hell, no! 623 00:38:28,851 --> 00:38:34,147 And Tom Brady looks at me and gives me that... that... you know... 624 00:38:34,147 --> 00:38:37,234 Hey, any quarterback wide receiver know. 625 00:38:37,234 --> 00:38:38,944 Y'all know what. 626 00:38:38,944 --> 00:38:43,031 Yeah, that... that look. That means, "Hey, I'm coming to you." 627 00:38:43,031 --> 00:38:44,449 Hike! 628 00:38:45,951 --> 00:38:50,455 Brady, to Moss, third catch, makes a move, has a first down. 629 00:38:52,541 --> 00:38:55,878 Play action, Brady lobs it for Moss. 630 00:38:55,878 --> 00:38:59,256 Well, now you're finally starting to see New England 631 00:38:59,256 --> 00:39:03,093 get into some kind of rhythm, and this is not uncharted territory for them. 632 00:39:09,183 --> 00:39:12,394 Brady... throws. Moss! 633 00:39:12,394 --> 00:39:13,687 Touchdown! 634 00:39:17,733 --> 00:39:21,236 A methodical drive put together by the game's best. 635 00:39:23,530 --> 00:39:28,744 Patriots lead by 4 with 2 minutes, 42 seconds left in the fourth quarter. 636 00:39:29,578 --> 00:39:31,830 They don't score, we win. 637 00:39:31,830 --> 00:39:36,710 Let's take control over the game up front. Shut them down. 638 00:39:37,628 --> 00:39:40,923 Defensively, we knew what we had to do. 639 00:39:42,591 --> 00:39:45,219 The perfect mark, 19 and 0. 640 00:39:46,345 --> 00:39:49,890 One more stop and it was ours. 641 00:39:49,890 --> 00:39:53,727 Come on, defense! Come on, defense! 642 00:40:06,281 --> 00:40:09,076 Pressure from Thomas off the edge. 643 00:40:12,538 --> 00:40:14,081 Gonna be hit! 644 00:40:15,207 --> 00:40:17,125 Gonna be sacked! 645 00:40:18,335 --> 00:40:20,420 - No! - No, he got out of it! 646 00:40:20,420 --> 00:40:22,798 How in the world did he do that? 647 00:40:22,798 --> 00:40:25,384 Eli Manning... I don't know how he got out of there. 648 00:40:25,384 --> 00:40:27,302 I thought he was on the ground. 649 00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:30,806 Airs it out down the field. 650 00:40:42,901 --> 00:40:45,279 It is caught by Tyree. 651 00:40:48,782 --> 00:40:50,367 Oh, my gosh! 652 00:40:52,369 --> 00:40:57,249 My first thought was, "Eli just got out of a sack," which never happens. 653 00:40:57,249 --> 00:41:00,460 My second thought was, "Did he catch it? He didn't catch it." 654 00:41:00,460 --> 00:41:01,712 I didn't think he caught it. 655 00:41:03,213 --> 00:41:06,800 Looking at the replay, David pins it against the helmet, 656 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,303 then clutches it and goes down. 657 00:41:10,220 --> 00:41:14,183 I... I just... My mouth dropped. 658 00:41:15,726 --> 00:41:19,021 I was like, "Fuck, man. How the fuck did you do that?" 659 00:41:19,938 --> 00:41:22,107 {\an8}That play, I was looking at it the other day. 660 00:41:22,107 --> 00:41:25,527 {\an8}If that ball bounces up, we have five guys there to intercept the ball. 661 00:41:26,612 --> 00:41:27,946 It's a million to one. 662 00:41:30,908 --> 00:41:34,161 I'm looking at the Giants after that play. 663 00:41:34,161 --> 00:41:38,624 And I thought, "Damn, I've been on that other sideline before." 664 00:41:39,416 --> 00:41:43,378 And I've beaten Goliath before, in the Saint Louis Rams. 665 00:41:43,378 --> 00:41:47,341 Where nobody thinks you got a shot, 666 00:41:47,341 --> 00:41:50,135 you double-digit underdog in the Super Bowl. 667 00:41:50,135 --> 00:41:55,516 And I'm like, "Oh, shit, I know what they feel." 668 00:41:58,060 --> 00:41:59,770 Thirty-nine seconds left. 669 00:42:01,647 --> 00:42:06,485 Manning lobs it. Burress alone! Touchdown, New York! 670 00:42:08,570 --> 00:42:11,240 Seventeen-14, Giants. 671 00:42:13,450 --> 00:42:15,285 With ten seconds left. 672 00:42:16,161 --> 00:42:20,415 The Patriots would have to get it to the 34-yard line for a field goal. 673 00:42:21,667 --> 00:42:23,669 At stake is the perfect season. 674 00:42:25,921 --> 00:42:31,301 At that point I'm thinking, "Okay, this thing is in hand." 675 00:42:31,301 --> 00:42:34,429 But anytime the Patriots have the ball, 676 00:42:34,429 --> 00:42:36,348 no matter how much time is left, 677 00:42:36,348 --> 00:42:39,351 when Tom Brady's your quarterback, you always worry. 678 00:42:41,603 --> 00:42:46,275 The last play... all we needed was a try for a field goal. 679 00:42:48,026 --> 00:42:53,198 So, Tom told me, "Hey, Randy, we canning that. 680 00:42:54,908 --> 00:42:56,410 Run the play. 681 00:42:57,077 --> 00:43:00,038 When I look at you, reverse field." 682 00:43:07,129 --> 00:43:09,089 Brady rolls. 683 00:43:12,467 --> 00:43:13,802 Heaves. 684 00:43:24,229 --> 00:43:25,480 I ran. 685 00:43:26,899 --> 00:43:28,942 The ball comes... 686 00:43:28,942 --> 00:43:31,987 Moss down field... 687 00:43:31,987 --> 00:43:33,447 broken up! 688 00:43:41,121 --> 00:43:44,625 And out of all the plays 689 00:43:44,625 --> 00:43:47,628 that I've made my whole life, that still haunts me. 690 00:43:47,628 --> 00:43:49,296 My fingertips touched it. 691 00:43:49,296 --> 00:43:50,631 I nipped it. 692 00:43:52,841 --> 00:43:55,093 They run out the clock. 693 00:43:55,093 --> 00:43:57,471 The Giants have won the Super Bowl. 694 00:44:11,860 --> 00:44:14,780 You know, seeing that ball hit that ground 695 00:44:14,780 --> 00:44:18,992 when you had seen Brady and Moss make connection after connection, 696 00:44:18,992 --> 00:44:20,619 {\an8}I was just like... 697 00:44:23,747 --> 00:44:26,041 {\an8}"Did... did that just happen? 698 00:44:26,041 --> 00:44:29,586 Did we... did we lose?" 699 00:44:34,967 --> 00:44:37,803 I just think everybody's heart just dropped to the floor. 700 00:44:38,971 --> 00:44:42,474 And it's just like a total... 701 00:44:42,474 --> 00:44:45,269 Just your soul leaving your body. 702 00:44:46,728 --> 00:44:48,063 Yeah. 703 00:44:49,648 --> 00:44:51,567 Sorry. 704 00:44:51,567 --> 00:44:53,777 Ah, that sucked. 705 00:45:07,791 --> 00:45:11,170 The Giants were better than us that day. 706 00:45:13,297 --> 00:45:16,508 {\an8}They outcoached us, outplayed us, and deserved to win. 707 00:45:22,097 --> 00:45:24,600 Following the loss to the Giants, 708 00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:29,938 that locker room was, by a factor of ten, 709 00:45:29,938 --> 00:45:32,774 {\an8}the most emotional... 710 00:45:35,152 --> 00:45:36,945 Let me... Sorry, let me just start over, 711 00:45:36,945 --> 00:45:40,490 because, I mean, I'm watching guys throw up and cry on the floor. 712 00:45:40,490 --> 00:45:43,660 You know, I've never seen that. I've never ever seen that. 713 00:45:43,660 --> 00:45:47,164 But I want to figure out how to... describe it. 714 00:45:53,504 --> 00:45:55,172 We were crushed. 715 00:45:56,340 --> 00:45:59,635 I was crushed, my teammates were crushed. Coaches were crushed. 716 00:46:00,636 --> 00:46:03,055 That was our history-making game. 717 00:46:04,348 --> 00:46:06,266 That would have been everything. 718 00:46:07,309 --> 00:46:11,647 I mean, I remember getting to the bus in Arizona, 719 00:46:11,647 --> 00:46:14,191 and it was... there was not a sound. 720 00:46:14,191 --> 00:46:15,859 We were... It was pitch dark. 721 00:46:15,859 --> 00:46:18,779 We were as devastated as you could be. 722 00:46:19,655 --> 00:46:21,406 There was no sleep. 723 00:46:21,406 --> 00:46:24,034 There was no sleep for... for a long time. 724 00:46:26,620 --> 00:46:32,042 I know Tommy wanted this game for so many reasons, 725 00:46:32,042 --> 00:46:35,045 and he's harder on himself 726 00:46:35,045 --> 00:46:41,176 than anyone else could ever be, and feels things so deeply. 727 00:46:41,176 --> 00:46:47,140 So, when he would do something where he felt he failed, 728 00:46:47,140 --> 00:46:49,768 it would make him feel even worse. 729 00:46:58,485 --> 00:47:01,071 That 2007 season, 730 00:47:01,071 --> 00:47:05,200 people were just waiting for the Patriots to slip up and lose. 731 00:47:06,076 --> 00:47:07,786 {\an8}Lose, so we can make fun of you. 732 00:47:07,786 --> 00:47:10,497 {\an8}Lose, so we can get a response, because so far, 733 00:47:10,497 --> 00:47:12,708 we don't have anything to hold over you. 734 00:47:12,708 --> 00:47:15,460 Okay, we can say, "Yeah, you cheated," 735 00:47:15,460 --> 00:47:17,087 but you keep winning. 736 00:47:18,589 --> 00:47:20,674 But now they had their answer. 737 00:47:20,674 --> 00:47:23,468 Finally, they had to wait until the last game of the season, 738 00:47:23,468 --> 00:47:25,762 but they had their comeback. 739 00:47:25,762 --> 00:47:28,098 And everybody celebrated when they didn't win. 740 00:47:37,399 --> 00:47:41,403 It felt like finally... finally, the good guys won. 741 00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:45,490 The devil got kicked in the butt. 742 00:47:46,325 --> 00:47:49,077 The rest of the country could celebrate. 743 00:47:49,995 --> 00:47:53,290 I think that gave hope for the future. 744 00:47:54,958 --> 00:47:57,794 But... the devil was not done. 745 00:47:57,794 --> 00:48:00,130 And now, ladies and gentlemen, 746 00:48:00,130 --> 00:48:03,467 here are the New England Patriots! 747 00:49:28,635 --> 00:49:30,637 Translated by