Here’s the thing about saying the story “made the league look way worse than the Pats”: that’s totally true. What the report does is:

Look, I’m not a Patriots fan, but that long, long column contained very little news, other than the stuff about Goodell allegedly wanting to get the spygate investigation over as quickly as possible. I agree that it makes the league look worse than the Patriots, but there’s also a whole lot of alleged cheating as well.

“Hey, we heard from (other team) that the Patriots are sending people into the visiting team’s locker room at Gillette to steal play sheets. What do you think we should do? Leave fake sheets behind? Have someone hide and catch them? Set up a hidden camera maybe? If we got hard evidence, it’d be pretty hard for them to…