Roger Goodell: NFL conducting ‘thorough’ investigation, history will matter with Patriots

“We’re going to be thorough. We’re going to take our time,” Roger Goodell on Patriots’ videotaping allegations.

Commissioner Roger Goodell broke his silence on Wednesday regarding the New England Patriots’ video taping allegations that recently surfaced.

His comments came at the end of a two-day league meeting in Irvine, TX, where he gave some discreet updates.

“It’s under review,” Goodell said. “We’re going to be thorough. We’re going to take our time and make sure we look at everything that’s pertinent here and make a decision.

“One of the things I’ve learned is you don’t draw conclusions until you have all the information. From our standpoint, I want look at all the information. Once we have all the information then we draw conclusions.”

This isn’t the first time that the Patriots have been caught up in videotaping allegations, and Goodell said that the Patriots’ history will play a factor in the ruling. New England’s history includes Spygate and Deflategate, where the team was fined and punished for going against the league’s rules.

“Of course, that is a factor,” Goodell said. “But I think the key things are the new information that we have — that information we obviously already had. I think the issue is what information do we have from this incident.”

The Patriots released a statement on Monday night and said that they were in full cooperation with the league in this process. Head coach Bill Belichick denies any involvement with it, and now it’s up to the NFL to determine the final result — with no timeline on the outcome.

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