I was listening to a sports radio talk show about a decade ago out in texas, i believe, back when the Pats were still winning, and some hollywood celebrity was on talking about something and he straight up said that all the NFL guys at parties would tell you all sorts of Patserisk's atrocities they were pulling, which most of the league knew about, but were just not officially commenting on...
I heard another say something similar here several years back
Every time a retro expose is done on the Pats Belecheat era, a little more leaks out..,
Eventually the dam bursts and john Q Public realizes they were frauds and the NFL went way out of the way to hide it