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The New England Patriots released a statement Monday night in an attempt to clarify an earlier report from ESPN’s Diana Russini that a team-credentialed videographer was not in fact filming the Bengals’s sideline during the first quarter of last week's Cincinnati-Cleveland game for competitive advantage purposes.
The team says that a production staffer was filming an episode of the team’s “Do Your Job” series for Patriots.com, focusing on the role of an advance scout.
According to the team, the member of the production crew, “without specific knowledge of League rules—inappropriately filmed the field from the press box.