Thanks for ending your workday with Helger and Mads. On 985, the Sports Hub. Dumb Mo. And streaming at CBSBostonSports.com. This hour of the program is brought you by Audie East. And joining us now in the Big Wide World Class Market guest chair. It's Craig Bedard from the Boston Sports Journal. What's up, Baddard? fellas how you doing uh I've been better you're not enjoying your week buddy boy um no pretty much

um being locked into a mall for a week is pretty much my worst nightmare all right well let's get

right yep people don't want to hear us bitch okay we started off talking about how the Patriots are in people's heads. And it's come up in a couple different ways. One is that, you know, the cheating allegations that come up pretty much every year, you know, like clockwork when we get here. I think people have their stories ready for when the Patriots get. And so Steve Spagnola, the former defensive coordinator with the Giants, and current defensive coordinator with the Giants, right?

Former assistant with the Eagles was talking about.

Patriots having the Eagles signals in 2004.

That Super Bowl, we talked to Brooks Barrett.

I'm sorry, Barrett Brooks, the former Steelers offensive lineman,

who was in the AFC championship game in 2004.

He told us the exact same thing and similar things yesterday on NBC Sports Boston.

So it's all come back up again, Greg.

Is it fair?

No, it's not fair.

Well...

I mean, the bats were doing it.

They did have...

They were doing some things, yes.

They were doing some things that were illegal, you know, using electronics to...

From the sidelines, to videotape opponents' signals,

and they may or may not, at least have been using it in the same game.

And the NFL told people repeatedly not to do it, and they kept doing it.

And even to the point where Robert Kraft asked Bill Belichick about it and said, how much

of an advantage did we gain out of this? And this was in Gary Myers' book. And I think he said like 1%. And even Kraft had pulled Belichick. Well, then you're a schmuck. Call them a schmuck. But again, the Spagnola and Barrett, their charges are from the era when the Pats were doing it. I mean, so just, you know, I just want to make that clear. It's not like they're saying last year. I know this is right in the era where the Patriots admitted what they were doing. Right. And look, I texted with Spagnolo. He got back to me today. And, you know, he just said that he was just saying what he recalled Jim Johnson saying at the time.

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