A Whimper?

ESPN's John Clayton exemplifies the blase attitude he and most of his "journalistic" colleagues share about Spygate. Writes Clayton, "Barring strong testimony to the contrary by Matt Walsh on Tuesday, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell probably will close the Spygate scandal and throw away the key," and " Goodell all along has said he would reopen the investigation if new evidence emerged."

Apparently, a new tape of the Patriots filming the Steelers during the AFC championship is no big deal to Clayton. And what of the "investigation." How can new evidence emerge if Goodell isn't bothering to look? Why has he not questioned any of the Patriots players - both offensive and defensive - about how the taped signals were used? Tom Brady couldn't shed some light on the issue? If it really is no big deal, let the Golden Boy publicly explain that. Or how about asking Ted Johnson, Tedy Bruschi or others about how the defense used the tapes.

And what about the coaches? Why haven't Charlie Weis and Romeo Crennel been interviewed? And how about Eric Mangini? He knew enough about the taping to call attention to it, and reveal the cheating. Why has Goodell never asked Mangini what else he knows about how the tapes were used?

Simply incredible.