Do you feel the New England Patriots deserve this for a Super Bowl ring?

[steve B]

They only measured a few, but on one guage some of the colts balls were under spec too. So since cheating is cheating, and all cheating should be punished equally, they should also lose a few draft picks and get fined.

And since everyone gets hung up on the taping........
Every team tapes the other teams practices. There's a rule about where that can be done. About a month earlier the Jets had someone taping the patriots practice from an unapproved location. It was mentioned, and the guy taping was removed, and that's as far as that went. The follow up was a memo reminding teams of where they could tape from. (Actually an even better vantage point if it's signals you want) Then the Pats had a guy in the wrong place and the Jets complained. The problem wasn't the taping, it was ignoring the memo. And they paid pretty heavily for that.

If you punished every team equally for every instance of cheating you'd have no draft since they'd all have lost picks.

Steve B