And with the words "I don't know where else I would turn," commissioner Roger Goodell appeared to put a large punctuation mark on the Spygate case. If it's not over, it's certainly fairly much dead in my mind.

This was expected. After no smoking gun was said to be found in Matty Walsh's VHS collection, it was clear that little if any more would be added to this whole deal. And it makes sense, now that everything has been disclosed it appears, that Goodell would want to shut this thing down.

Not only has it been a black eye for the league, but it has become a major connection to Goodell himself. He's only 19 months into his tenure as commissioner, and he's best known for two things -- player conduct and Spygate -- among the average fan. And though cleaning up the game is a good thing in most people's minds, all these problems that Goodell has faced, including the strange Spygate case, has cast a bit of a pall over his reign.

For now, and perhaps forever, Spygate is dead. And what a strange case it has turned out to be.

One interesting postscript: Our friends over at Cold, Hard Football Facts dug up this interesting nugget ... about the Rams possibly spying on the Patriots before Super Bowl XXXVI. Interesting.