Harbaugh: Patriots' Super Bowls 'stained'

Ravens coach John Harbaugh took a bit of a jab at the Patriots and coach Bill Belichick in an interview on 98 Rock Radio in Baltimore Tuesday. 

Harbaugh, whom Belichick recommended to the Ravens prior to his 2008 hiring, was asked about the urge to bend the rules. Here's what he had to say:

"In the end everything is brought before the light of day when it's all said and done. ... So what happens is, even the thing in New England and the thing ... No matter whether those things had any impact on whether they won their championships or not, they got asterisks now. It's been stained. So to me it's never worth it.

"You've got to figure out ways to use the rules to your advantage, you've got to figure out ways to make the most of everything, we've got new work rules here as far as what we can do and what we can't do with our players, we're going to make the most of it and what we're finding is, man, in a way we can do things even better than we did before because these rules make us focus more on things we didn't focus on before, and you've got to make them work for you. That's what success is in the world - you've got to find a way to do things better than somebody else. But in the end, if you're cheating, you're going to get discredited. It's just not worth it."

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