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'No new sanctions' expected against Pats

Published: May 13, 2008 at 2:30 PM
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National Football League's Commissioner Roger Goodell talks about his meeting with Matt Walsh, a video assistant for the New England Patriots, after the NFL investigated the scandal involving the Patriots' video taping play signals from the offensive coaches during games in New York on May 13, 2008. Later in the day Walsh will meet with U.S. Senator Arlen Spector (R-PA) who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee. (UPI Photo/Monika Graff)
National Football League's Commissioner Roger Goodell talks about his meeting with Matt Walsh, a video assistant for the New England Patriots, after the NFL investigated the scandal involving the Patriots' video taping play signals from the offensive coaches during games in New York on May 13, 2008. Later in the day Walsh will meet with U.S. Senator Arlen Spector (R-PA) who heads the Senate Judiciary Committee. (UPI Photo/Monika Graff)

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NEW YORK, May 13 (UPI) -- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said he didn't expect further sanctions against the New England Patriots following a meeting with a former team employee.

Former Patriots video assistant Matt Walsh spoke with Goodell for more than three hours Tuesday regarding the team's videotaping practices.

Goodell last year fined New England Coach Bill Belichick $500,000 and the team $250,000 and took a 2008 first-round draft choice from the Patriots after the team was turned in for recording opposing coaches' signals.

Goodell said the tapes Walsh provided covered six games in 2000-02 but none related to the St. Louis Rams' walk-through prior to Super Bowl XXXVI.

"The fundamental information that Matt provided was consistent with what we disciplined the Patriots for last fall," Goodell said.

"I don't anticipate any further sanctions. What we heard and saw was fundamentally consistent with what we already knew."

Goodell said there were two possible violations by the Patriots revealed at the meeting but neither is considered serious. Walsh indicated there was a player on injured reserve who practiced in violation of NFL rules and that a few Patriots players illegally scalped their Super Bowl tickets.

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