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Patriots, Dolphins: In pursuit of perfection. Plus: Cleveland's crazy field goal. And: Why not illegally contact?
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    There've been arguments here and elsewhere about whether the Pats are "running up the score". Use those other great teams as comparison points. Likely quite a few of them could have beaten other teams by this kind of margin, but they didn't. At a certain point you're going for humiliation and risking your player's health to do it. That's where the Pats are now. Bellicheck is a childish man who feels he's been slighted too often and now that he's been caught cheating, he's going to take it out on the world.

    Also please note: he's been CAUGHT cheating, not just accused of it. There are quite a few other football fans I know of that are pretty sure he's still cheating in other ways that had been alluded to in previous games, but not proven the way the taping is. This year, if not others, is tainted for the Pats and that's part of what all the running up the score is about, they're trying to wash that away. It won't work. Even Don Shula thinks this season is tainted for the Pats and if you don't think he knows what he's talking about, you might as well get the Pats logo tattooed on your forhead 'cause you wouldn't believe anyone has an "objective" opinion if they don't agree with you anyway.