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If the report exonerates the Patriots of wrongdoing or of having knowledge of what may have happened, how is fining the team and taking draft choices justified?
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I don't believe it exonerates the Patriots for the acts of its equipment-handling employees, and team punishment is based on some sort of negligent supervision or other failure to properly oversee their work. IMO, the reason Belichek likely avoided penalties is because although it happened on his watch, the bad acts were performed either by a player (which by definition is not management) and/or by team personnel that he did not hire and control, unlike what happened to Sean Payton, whose hand-picked assistants were at the root of the Bountygate problem.
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