It goes back years ago.
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...icious-patriots-deflategate-article-1.2094128
http://www.si.com/si-wire/2013/01/30/marshall-faulk-patriots-cheated-rams-super-bowl
Basic overview
"2002: Marshall Faulk claims Patriots cheated Rams out of Super Bowl win
Tom Brady won his first championship with the Patriots at Super Bowl XXXVI against the Rams, and Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk was the first person ever to call out Belichick for having just a little too much intel ahead of the game. He said,
I understand Bill is a great coach. But No. 13 [Kurt Warner] will tell you. Mike Martz will tell you. We had some plays in the red zone that we hadn’t ran.
And a couple of plays on third down that we walked through also. And they created a check for it. It’s just little things like that.
It’s either the best coaching in the world when you come up with situations that you had never seen before. Or you’d seen it and knew what to do."
It's funny that Pats fans consider everyone else the liar. New England Bill Cosbys?
Here's some of Kurt's dialog,
""Since that scandal, I don't know if they've won a Super Bowl," Warner said, knowing full well that the Patriots have lost both Super Bowls since SpyGate. "So you sit back and go, 'Well, was it because of any advantage they got?' I think it's unfortunate. Unfortunate for him. Unfortunate for our league. Unfortunate for historians who love the game and love great coaches. Because we don't know"
Gee Kurt, they did go 18-0 to get to one of the 2 SB's they lost to the Giants, they have also compiled one of if not the best W/L % since then as well. Part of that was crappy competition in the AFC east but I don't get his point. Both of the Giants games were close and either team could have won (exactly like the last SB). fact of the matter was the Giants had the goods to slow Brady's offense to a crawl with a pass rush that resulted in multiple sack's, hurried throws or Brady just chucking it in someone's area to avoid another sack. So Kurt, if Welker makes that catch (which would have sealed the 2nd game) are you saying that the Pat's win against your team would have been more legit?. Kurt and Marshall are entitled to their opinion's but without a single shred of credible proof they both come off as wining snot-bags. They faced perhaps the best defensive-minded coach in the history of the game and lost, they didn't try to run Faulk more even though the Ref's were allowing DB's aggressive play disrupting your timing routes but no, "they cheated" is why we lost. Sometimes coaches under intense pressure of a one game winner-take-all situation can make bad decisions as well, BB going for a 4th and 13 instead of trying a 48yrd FG against a team that had been smashing your franchise QB all game long, bad idea, they lost the game by 3. Carrol calling for a pass into traffic with BM in the back-field, bad idea, his own hubris got in the way, "hey, watch here as I let the QB I PICKED out-Brady Brady and get him the game MVP", bad idea. I just have zero respect for losers that wine and find excuses. Shoot, if you watch the re-play of the "helmet-catch" Seymour has Eli's jersey and is about to finish him off for a sack when he's tackled from behind enabling Eli's escape and throw, did ANY Patriot player wine to the media that they were "robbed" by the Ref's in perhaps one of if not the biggest game in history?, nope, not a single one did. It's called "class" and losers who wine tend to have zero of that quality.