So that Matt Walsh - Roger Goodell meeting that we’ve all been waiting to happen? Yesterday, it finally did.

Among the new revelations were…nothing, really.

From Pat Yasinskas at ESPN.COM:

Walsh looked boyish and harmless as he walked into and out of the NFL’s Park Avenue office. But he told Goodell and other officials plenty behind closed doors and provided them with videotape of eight games in which the Patriots clearly were taping opposing coaches. Then, the NFL showed Walsh the door.

“The fundamental information Matt provided was consistent with what we disciplined the Patriots for last fall in that they were taping coaches’ signals against NFL policy,” Goodell said.

So nothing new — apparently — was learned. Walsh did not produce the Super Bowl XXXVI tape of that Rams walkthrough that everyone was expecting. ESPN.COM has indicated that those eight tapes he did produce have been shown to the media. This was Goodell’s crucial original error — not releasing the first batch of tape to a skeptical public is what gave this story the original kick in the pants.

So…is this it for Spygate? Roger Goodell says it is. We have no new information, no new witnesses, and no new tapes. But the skepticism remains over how much of an advantage Bill Belichick gained from those tapes. I’d believe it was significant enough to win his team a few games they would otherwise have lost. And as sure as those three Lombardi tropies aren’t leaving Foxboro anytime soon, neither is the stain on them that Belichick put on his organization and its accomplishments.