As to Spygate, Porter said: “They cheated. There should be an asterisk on it, just because Marion Jones, she get caught, they take the gold medals back. Obviously, they got caught. If it wasn’t that bad, why would you destroy the evidence? If you have nothing to hide why would you destroy it? . . . Why destroy something that don’t have to be destroyed? Let everybody see what was on the tape. Why you going to destroy it so fast? I think it must have been that bad to where they didn’t want anybody else to see it. They had to be that bad – to destroy it, so nobody else could see it. If it wasn’t helping nobody, why did you do it? If Tom Brady wasn’t getting help out of it, then why would you do it every week? And everyone wants to wonder how these guys just went from zero to 60 overnight. That’ll do it for you.”
Porter also claims that the Pats’ reputation in league circles has taken a hit.
“Anybody that I know that lost to them in big games, they are very upset about it. . . . It’s something that’s not harped on, but the slap on the wrist really didn’t fit the crime. I don’t think the $500,000 fine was really big enough after you made multi-millions and billions off of winning those championships. That’s a fine that he probably didn’t have to pay anyway. [Owner Bob] Kraft probably paid that fine, so it’s not like it really hurt. He goes on to be this great coach for cheating. He went from a good coach, now he’s a great, great coach, and he got caught cheating. I don’t understand that. I lost two of those championship games. If you’re gonna tell me that happened, there’s no way I can look at it and feel like I didn’t get cheated.”
