Peyton Manning Fears That Bill "Keyser Soze" Belichick Bugged His House

NBC – Since the Spygate story broke in 2007, there’s been a widespread perception around the NFL that the Patriots cheat. But in the years between Spygate and Deflategate, those accusations amounted to little more than rumor and innuendo. Still, the rumors and innuendo affected the way NFL teams prepared to play against the Patriots. And the player who has been the Patriots’ biggest rival, Peyton Manning, took specific steps to combat the possibility that the Patriots were cheating. That’s the word from former Colts coach Tony Dungy, who said on the Dan Patrick Show that when the Colts were playing in New England, Manning would leave the visitors’ locker room and go into an adjacent hallway when he wanted to discuss specific plays the Colts were going to run because Manning feared the locker room was bugged. Dungy said he doesn’t know if the Patriots’ locker room really was bugged, but he did confirm that a 2010 Peter King report about Manning’s concerns was accurate. “I know that that is very true, and, you know, as Peyton talked to guys who played for the Patriots, some of the guys who came over — whether it’s true or not he treated it as true. We didn’t have a lot of strategy discussions inside the locker room there,” Dungy said.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again. Bill Belichick is Keyser Soze. The line between fiction and reality is totally blurred. He is so far in the heads of every other team in the NFL it’s insane. No wonder the Patriots always win. They have mentally dominated their opponent before they even step on the field. Everybody wondering what black magic Belichick is using to gain an unfair advantage instead of worrying about themselves. Belichick is a myth, a spook story that other coaches and players tell their kids at night. “Rat on your pop, and Bill Belichick will get you.” Some say he’s Turkish. Some say his father was German. The way Peyton Manning hears it, Belichick is some kind of butcher. A peerless, psycho, fucked-up butcher. The greatest trick Belichick ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. And like that, poof…he’s onto Cincinnati.