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Matt Walsh avrebbe consegnato 8 filmati alla NFL relativi a segnali offensivi e difensivi di alcune squadre
Former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh turned over eight tapes to the NFL that show the team recording offensive and defensive signals of five teams in six games between 2000 and 2002, the New York Times reported last night.
Walsh’s attorney, Michael Levy, later confirmed the story’s accuracy in an e-mail to the Herald.
Walsh did not turn over a tape of the Rams’ final walkthrough before Super Bowl XXXVI. Addressing media speculation about such a tape, as well as the Herald’s Feb. 2 story about the walkthrough, Levy told the Times, “Mr. Walsh has never claimed to have a tape of the walkthrough.
“Mr. Walsh has never been the source of any of the media speculation about such a tape,” Levy added. “Mr. Walsh was not the source for the Feb. 2 Boston Herald article.”
The tapes Walsh provided show the Patriots recording the offensive and defensive signals of the Dolphins, Bills, Browns, Chargers and Steelers, with Pittsburgh taped during the 2002 AFC title game, the Times reported.
Tapes are edited with varying degrees of sophistication. The Steelers video, for instance, shows the signal followed by two angles of the play. The Chargers tape, made in 2002 after Walsh had moved to the scouting department, is just raw footage, with shots of the signals followed by shots of the scoreboard, which showed down and distance.
Levy confirmed to the Times that Walsh did not film the Chargers game. He declined to say if Walsh had manned the camera for any of the other videos.
The tapes are expected to arrive at the NFL’s offices today. Walsh will meet with commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday morning to answer any further questions about the tapes and the Patriots’ video practices. From there, he is expected to fly to Washington to meet with Sen. Arlen Specter later that afternoon. Final arrangements with Specter were still being ironed out.
Walsh’s first recording is dated Sept. 25, 2000, and is of the previous day’s 10-3 loss to the Dolphins. The last is dated Sept. 29, 2002, and was made during a 21-14 loss to the Chargers.
“This is consistent with what the Patriots had admitted they had been doing, consistent with what we already knew,” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told the Associated Press last night.