If you couldn't make out the dialog through the excellent YouTubing of the pictocube, the transcription is:

REPORTER: "Champ, Champ, Talk about your Beantown offense in the second half. They treated the boys from Big D like a couple of flapper girls who were a little loopy on the old gin and juice."

BELICHICK: "Next question."

Yes, I suppose Dallas' secondary did appear to have the heebie-jeebies from too much giggle water.  Dreamboat fielded a similar question in the locker room:

REPORTER: "Champ, Champ, Champ, talk about the touchdown pass to Donte' Stallworth. It looked like you two were doing the Jitterbug while the Dallas secondary was doing the Charleston." 

BRADY: "Is that right? I don’t know what the hell that means but, it was great route and it’s easy to throw it when he’s that wide open. Great question."

It seems Tom Terrific isn't up to speed on his '20s lingo.  We at With Leather would have liked to see him come back with the following response:

"The Charleston, huh?  That reminds me of the time my pal, who was a bell bottom from Baltimore, asked me if I would escort this bearcat with a well-built chassis he knew. 'And how!" I say, and I throw on my glad rags and navigate my flivver over to where she flops.   But what do I find when I arrive, but a fire extinguisher with cheaters on the doorstep with this baby vamp. 'Aw, applesauce!' I think. 

"The old bird called me dewdropper, but I told her to mind her potatoes. I knew then the speakeasy was out, so I took them to the petting pantry to see Jolson's new talkie. The doll had gams that were the berries, so I kept slipping hooch into the flat tire's phosphate until she was ossified, and me and the deb ankled it out of there to the nearest gin mill. The Lindy Hop was the cat's pajamas then, so after we got an edge from the coffin varnish, we hit floor.  And let me tell you, that little hoofer got her wiggle on and the whole juice joint was chanting 'Get hot!'. After a few more slugs and smudges, it became clear this Jane was scouting for a sugar daddy because when I ran low on clams she told me the bank's closed.

"'Tell it to Sweeney' I say and pull out my hope chest, and this big six at the door, who was a harp I knew, asks me to butt him. I oblige and notice a chopper in his mitt. 'Everything's jake' I say, and he tells me the bulls are out, and, just then, the dicks bust in and the mick starts tapping 'em out with his Chicago typewriter. Well, I know my onions, so I 23-skidooed it. Anywho, I spent the rest of my kale on a quiff, and we played struggle buggy 'til dawn. What was your question?" -KD 

[Boston Sportz]

I'm sure you've all watched the random-ass video the Chief shared in his Power Rankings yesterday.  Well, now we have this: 

Look, Patriots fans can be funny.  Who would've have thunk it? -KD

{Townie News} 

Sheesh, dramatic much?

Listen, I'm not gonna defend Bill Belichick or the Patriots — what they did was wrong, yadda yadda — but enough already.  Let them get their penalty of fines and lost draft picks or whatever, and let's move on.  In times of strife like this, I like to use empty statements that assuage without taking a real stance.  Yeah, but what're ya gonna do?  It is what it is.  Snakes on a plane, man.  Now don't you feel better already?

[Ryan Parker] 

Patriots coach Bill Belichick addressed the media today, giving a predictably heartfelt apology for the scandal surrounding the Patriots cameraman illegally filming the Jets' sideline on Sunday.

It was not clear what Belichick was apologizing for, and the coach repeatedly refused to elaborate on a one-paragraph statement issued 10 minutes before a regularly scheduled news conference to discuss Sunday night's game against the San Diego Chargers.

"At this point, we have not been notified of the league's ruling," Belichick said in a statement. "Although it remains a league matter, I want to apologize to everyone who has been affected, most of all ownership, staff and players. Following the league's decision, I will have further comment."

Belichick refused to elaborate on the statement several times during a news conference. After about 15 minutes discussing Sunday's game, he was pressed harder on his "interpretation of the rules," and the coach walked out of the room.

In other words, it was almost exactly like this.  Gotcha.

There's both a hubbub and a hullabaloo today over allegations that the Patriots employed a cameraman to steal signs from the Jets yesterday.  The camera was confiscated and sent to NFL headquarters for further investigation.  If guilty, the Patriots could face serious fines and the loss of draft picks.

"It's not their first time," a member of the committee, who did not wish to be identified, said. In fact, Green Bay Packers president Bob Harlan confirmed a similar incident that occurred when the Patriots played at Lambeau Field last Nov. 19. The same cameraman who was questioned by NFL security on Sunday was also the one whom the Packers removed from the sideline and escorted from the field during their 2006 game.

So NFL teams aren't allowed to steal signs?  This is so confusing while the baseball season is going on. Because in baseball, you're supposed to steal signs.  It's part of the strategy.  Kind of like how in baseball, steroids are legal but frowned upon, whereas in the NFL they're illegal but totally cool.  The nuances are tricky.

Did anyone else besides me not expect this kind of subterfuge from Bill Belichick?  Usually he's so forthright. 

MORE NFL: Of course, Monday Night Football kicks off tonight with a fairly useless doubleheader in which the late game (Cardinal-49ers) will go really fucking late into the night and be of interest to very few people.  ESPN, of course, wants you to know that it's a very big deal, to the point that they've even got real newspapermen to live-blog the thing.  It's true: Matt Mosley will take Ravens-Bengals in the early slot, and Mike Sando's got the West Coast game.  Should be a nice supplement to Mike and Mike calling the game.  Yay.

Sharon Shenocca — the New Jersey housewife who's divorcing her husband following a long romance with Patriots coach Bill Belichick — knows that her illicit football flame has found a younger platinum fortyish girlfriend in Linda Holliday, but she doesn't seem to mind.  Probably because Belichick is footing the bill for a $2.2 million NYC brownstone.  Yeah, that's a good way to soften the break-up.

Shenocca… said Belichick has FedExed her at least $150,000 in cash, paid for exotic vacations and is renovating a $2.2 million New York brownstone where she hopes to live with her two kids, according to the New York Post. Shenocca said Belichick has even ponied up some $22,000 to rent her a home on the Jersey Shore for the upcoming summer, the second year in a row he’s picked up the tab for her seaside holiday.

As for Belichick’s new squeeze, Linda Holliday, Shenocca said she knows Belichick and the blond divorcee have “had a few dates” but said she hasn’t met Holliday. Shenocca, 41, who denies that she and Belichick are anything more than “friends,” said the coach continues to foot her bills out of “generosity.” 

Wow, you can just feel the sarcasm from that article.  They might as well come out and say that Shenocca trades anal for rent… which, to be fair, isn't such a bad deal in New York.