Coach Roth: Football: Drills and Coaching

The New England Patriots are threatend again with punishment from the NFL because of “illegal” video taping - an accusation that showed up the first time February 2nd, the day before this years Super Bowl.

Now, witness Matt Walsh (at that time New England Patriots video assistant) who claims to have evidence that the New England Patriots filmed the final walkthroughs of their then Super Bowl XXXVIII Opponent St. Louis Rams in 2002, will talk to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on May 13th. Patriots HC Bill Belichick denies taping the walkthrough…

And now this: Walsh sent 8 tapes to the NFL all which show only what’s already admitted by the Patriots: taping of oppenents signals…

Aaaand now Michal Levy, Walsh’s lawyer is quoted like this: “Mr. Walsh has never claimed to have a tape of the walkthrough”.

What?

And he also denies that Walsh has been the source of the Feb. 2nd rumor: “Mr. Walsh has never been the source of any of the media speculation about such a tape. Mr. Walsh was not the source for the Feb. 2 Boston Herald article.”

Well, it seem to me that somebody wanted just very hard to get some publicity…

What do you think?

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In about 30 minutes the NFL-Draft 2008 will start…

Let’s see who the Miami Dolphins will pick as their first pick…

I will “update” on this post via comments…

So feel free to add you own comments to this post, it will be my only post about the NFL-Draft 2008

Talk to you soon
Coach Roth

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It seems that in Miami barely one stone was left on the other, after the Dolphins finished their worst season (1-15) ever.<br />
It all started with Bill Parcells being hired as the new Director of Football operations, which lead to a total rebuild of the coaching staff
and the release of many players and hiring of a lot of new FA players even before the draft.

Then on March, 31st the NFL-Owners agreed to a new ownership of the Miami Dolphins: Wayne Huizenga who owned the Miami Dolphins since 1984 (1980-1984 co-owner) decided to give the Miami Dolphins into new hands. At first he sold 50% of the shares to Stephen Ross, with an agreed complete transition of the ownership in the near future by making Ross the Managing General Partner. He decided so “to the best of the Miami Dolphins” since even though his family is very close to the Miami Dolphins none of them is close enough to take over the reigns… So he had to find somebody to take over the leadership… But Huizenga want to keep “some stake in the team” as long as he lives, leaving it to his inheritants…

Well, it seems from the buyers point of view there’s barely a better moment to buy an NFL-Team than when it’s coming of a season with just one win (Jerry Jones took over the Dallas Cowboys in a similar situation…), so the price can’t be much lower…

But on the other hand, the current “value” of NFL-Teams, makes them very hard to sell, so when you sell it might be easier to find a buyer when the “value” of the team seems to be at the lowest point…

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