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Originally Posted by Dam8610
If future prevention was the goal, any punishment short of lifetime bans for Brady and Belichick and official derecognition of all of their career accomplishments was and still is insufficient. Belichick made tens of millions and Brady made hundreds of millions, and COMBINED, they, along with billionaire Kraft who made billions off the scheme, had to pay fines of $1.1 million? The moral of that story to any smart businessperson is do it again as many times as you can. You can't penalize based on what you think probably happened.
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Indy Norm ) was correct. A one-year ban in the first place would have prevented any incidents in the future, because the next step would have been a lifetime ban.
Banning for life on the first offense for cheating would have opened a can of worms in the second place that would have caused more damage than good.
It's possible that Belichick was cheating before Spygate, but there would be no way to prove that, hence there would be no way to penalize for that.
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