NFL refutes ESPN report about possible discipline for Patriots’ videotaping incident
The Patriots suspended a longtime team video producer after the Week 14 incident.
After initially reporting on Saturday that the Patriots will receive discipline from the NFL for gameday videotaping violations during the Week 14 game between the Bengals and Browns in Cleveland, ESPN’s Adam Schefter later reported that the NFL issued a statement refuting his report.
On Saturday morning, Schefter tweeted this:
Patriots are expected to be disciplined for acknowledged gameday video violations in Cincinnati, per league sources. Discipline likely to come in the next two weeks, but not all security reports back to NFL yet.
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 4, 2020
Later Saturday he followed up with this:
Statement from NFL to update investigation on Patriots: “The investigation is ongoing and there has been no discussion of any potential discipline. Any suggestion of potential discipline or a timeline on an announcement is pure speculation.”
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) January 4, 2020
Patriots film crew members were caught by Bengals personnel filming the Bengals’ sideline one week prior to the Patriots’ game in Cincinnati. The film crew said they were shooting video for a feature on the team’s scouts produced by the organization and that they unkowningly broke an NFL rule, but the Bengals took issue with the filming, as evidenced in a video obtained by Fox’s Jay Glazer.
The video, shot by Bengals security team members, confronts the Patriots film crew and the Bengals personnel asks them to cease filming immediately. The Patriots suspended a longtime team video producer after the incident.
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