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If you ruin your opponents rep, even the solid info he may have can be dismissed in public opinion.
Slash - alot are forgetting how he came about this information. He stole it and it seems the tapes were stolen long before he was fired. Speaking of fired, why did he get fired? For secretly taping conversations. Yet he told Mike Fish, of ESPN, the following (and which contradicts your comment about him only communicating through his lawyer or the NFL):
Walsh says he was frustrated with the monotony of the scouting job in New England -- he focused on the few football-playing colleges in western New York -- and that may have been a factor in his dismissal. He suggested it likely got back to the Patriots that he had made overtures about video jobs with other teams. He eventually landed a series of assistant golf pro jobs at private clubs in New England and Arizona.
Also, per the article, he said he worked his way up the ladder to become a college scout. He never was. He said he was in the golf program at his college yet the college sports information office has no record of him in their files.
Here's another ignorant quote from that same article.
Are they going to try and threaten me? Or say, don't talk about it? Then, they are putting themselves out there and looking bad as far as if I turn around and say, 'Hey, guess what, the league called me and said we're gonna take away your pension if you say anything about this.'" Later, Walsh said his reference to a pension meant his 401k retirement plan.
He then goes on to say:
"If I had a reason to want to go public or tell a story, I could have done it before this even broke," he said. "I could have said everything rather than having Eric Mangini be the one to bring it out."
He mentioned a confidentiality agreement he signed with the club, though he's not sure how that might factor into what he has to say.
Bottom line, in my opinion, is that Matt Walsh when sought out, perfectly played the David versus Goliath angle but not with the truth. He played it with outright lies and suppositions told to the media who were just chomping at the bit to be the first to "break the story". He should have done exactly what you said, Slash, and just communicated with his attorney and the NFL. Now he's exposed himself as someone whose character should be questioned just as much as Belichick's is.
There never was an agreement but let's say there was; it's shocking that Walsh doesn't have a copy given his history of having one of everything else.Really? What happened to the confidentiality agreement that you said you signed?:If he truly knew what he was talking about, he'd have known that no employer can take away either their pension or retirement plan just for disclosing company practices. These plans are federally regulated and the organization would be in much more trouble than for any taping signals. This and the fact that a 401(k) is primarily comprised of employee contributions. The organization is going to keep money that was his?
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