This not the Larry Walsh and Matt Ryan that I knew
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Matt Walsh was a video operator. For him to attempt to speak with any authority on the process of coaching, play-calling, or the decisions made by offensive or defensive coordinators is an embarrassment.
Matt Walsh presented no evidence about another team to warrant further investigation
There is no evidence that any other team engaged in that activity [besides the Patriots]
Matt Walsh presented no evidence about another team to warrant further investigation
There was only one other time that I ever suspected another team of possibly shooting our signals
First and foremost, this is about a writer breaking one of the cardinal rules of journalism: I failed to keep challenging what I had been told
For him to talk about game-planning and strategy and play-calling and how he advised coordinators, it's embarrassing; it's absurd ... He didn't have any knowledge of football. He was our third video assistant.
You look at the tape. You see him filming the game ... You tell me how discrete it is.
When I was doing it, I understood what we were doing to be wrong ... Coach Belichick's explanation for having misinterpreted the rules, to me, that really didn't sound like taking responsibility for what we had done, especially considering the great lengths that we had gone through to hide what we were doing.